Windows 10 market share is around 6.5%, so it's definitely not that. The bigger reason is that there's no need to upgrade period. Beyond nearly all operating system vendors (from Desktop to mobile) continually releasing worse OSes than the previous version, RAM is no longer the driving factor behind application performance it used to be. For niche applications like simulation work it still really matters, but even the most hardcore gamer is overkill at 16GB regardless of speed.
Your main beef is with corporate contributions? Why? Because your guy didn't win last time? You're right; corporate contributions are a big problem and nearly all first world countries limit them in one way or another, but your delusion is that you would actually have a choice independent of that. In a two party system, you have no choice, and the puppet you put in the big chair has no teeth; regardless. If you want real change you need election reform. In fact, in order of importance we need: monetary reform, election reform, civil rights reform.
Monetary reform: We current have, and will continue to have, no power when the mechanism that controls all wealth lies, solely, in private interests. Fractional reserve banking, while it has social merits, is the single biggest problem in the western world today. Without reform we are destined, mathematically, for massive economic collapses. It's naive to assume our elected representatives can have any influence over the life blood of our economy when all of it's interest is in private corporations.
Election reform: As discussed above: FPP ultimately degrades into a false choice between two artificially different talking heads. Because it's always more attractive to vote for the guy you think will beat the guy you hate the most, you get a two party system divided largely on controversial social issues. There's alternative methods that more proportionately represent the population and have been tried with success like Mixed-member proportional representation [wikipedia.org].
Civil rights reform: There's an obvious erosion of civil rights underway in all developed nations. Resolving this problem is not possible without resolving the above.
Your main beef is with corporate contributions? Why? Because your guy didn't win last time? You're right; corporate contributions are a big problem and nearly all first world countries limit them in one way or another, but your delusion is that you would actually have a choice independent of that. In a two party system, you have no choice, and the puppet you put in the big chair has no teeth; regardless. If you want real change you need election reform. In fact, in order of importance we need: monetary reform, election reform, civil rights reform.
Monetary reform: We current have, and will continue to have, no power when the mechanism that controls all wealth lies, solely, in private interests. Fractional reserve banking, while it has social merits, is the single biggest problem in the western world today. Without reform we are destined, mathematically, for massive economic collapses. It's naive to assume our elected representatives can have any influence over the life blood of our economy when all of it's interest is in private corporations.
Election reform: As discussed above: FPP ultimately degrades into a false choice between two artificially different talking heads. Because it's always more attractive to vote for the guy you think will beat the guy you hate the most, you get a two party system divided largely on controversial social issues. There's alternative methods that more proportionately represent the population and have been tried with success like Mixed-member proportional representation.
Civil rights reform: There's an obvious erosion of civil rights underway in all developed nations. Resolving this problem is not possible without resolving the above.
"Waste"; as in the left vote is divided 3 ways (NDP, Liberal, Green). It's not specifically a fault of Quebec, but more of first past the post voting. FPP always trends to a 2 party system for this reason exactly. Quebec should get on board with the rest of the country and help us get rid of our mutual enemy: the Conservatives. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the country doesn't vote conservative. This is true for both the popular vote and for the representative vote. However, the Conservatives still keep getting elected because the opposition vote is divided along razor thing lines between (largely) two very similar parties.
You're right, this FUD probably will decide it but I naively hope the public will know better. We need to get back to the reality of economics governed by demand, and away from this supply-side, free market zealot's wet dream of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The reality is: Canada has resources. The world needs resources. We won't be "frozen" out of anything. Despite what Harper tells you.
Don't be a moron. What you're, almost for sure, referencing is the unfortunate but necessary culling of large wildlife populations in relative urban areas where natural predators no longer exist. That is a very fringe political issue that doesn't need to be trolled through this discussion. Although, I did bite.
A nerd, geek, whatever you want to call it, to me, has always meant someone who's unequivocally "not normal". They don't fit in without effort. They don't tow lines, or do things just because "it's tradition" or "that's just way you do it". A nerd is someone that swims against the social current not because it's popular, but solely for their own reasons.
Therefore, this mentality flies in the face of trends and fashion. However, it meshes perfectly with the hipsters quest for irony (a trend who's desire is not to follow trends). Thus, hipsters have embraced their interpretation of "nerd culture" as an ironic fashion trend. It's deeply disturbing and highly offensive if you ask me.
With specific regard to The Big Bang Theory: I think it started as something generally trying to be evocative niche programming, but devolved into a cliche for the current social trend (hipster). Such is the demise of all ratings-chasing television shows.
If you need to use the "reference code" for an image file format, then you are modifying said format. In which case, yes, any modifications need to provide the source as well. This is no different from GPLv2. There's no reason GPLv3 cannot exist beside any other licenses.. in fact it does in nearly any instance it's used. The Linux kernel itself is a pretty good example (GPLv2). The provisions of GPLv3 that have the corporate blowhards up in arms are those that deal with software patents. Specifically where it attempts to correct problems like the the Microsoft/Novell deal that tried to leverage software patents on GPL code to, essentially steal, exclusive ownership of it.
GPLv3 is, currently, the perfect license for any file format standard. It's your best available option if you a) don't want to start a proprietary project from scratch, and/or b) are worried about American corporate greed monetizing the work of a community in which they don't belong, or contribute.
There's no reason you can't use GPL software along side proprietary software. No revision of the GPL prevents that. What you can't do is change the specifics of the file format and try to own the entire package either through patents or monetizing your modifications without distributing the source. Don't believe the FUD.
As far as I know the main differences between GPLv2 and v3 are to do with software patents. IE. Provisions to stop organisations from using modified GPL code in tandem with granted patents to maintain ownership. It's unclear whether most of the FUD in this discussion is directed at the GPL itself or specifically v3. But it's entirely unfounded. This is the appropriate license for this image format.
I think everyone's a little bit confused here. Domain name registry is provided by authorized registrars on behalf on top level domains (tld); in this case.com. The "nameservers" addresses are registered with the tld, which will then provide second, third, forth, whatever you want level lookups. I haven't read tfa but this had to be a registrar goof up. Most give at least a 3 month grace period for renewals even after it expires. And that's just for regular joes. I'm sure titans of the internet have special rules.
Comments are for discussion. I was attempting to start one. But nevermind, I know your type and this argument will never end. So let's just say you're right and you win.
According to most, Snowden did his patriotic duty. You don't even have the sack to post with a registered account, yet you're going to be judge jury and executioner for this man? If even a small fraction of the world had half the courage of this man our collective western society would be much better. Like it used to be.
What is he doing in Russia? If he's still there. Admittantly I haven't been following the story that closely. But how does he have a computer or food? Does he have a job? Is he working for the Russian government? If that's the case I'd have to say he's just traded one evil for another.
According to Rathgeber, the problem is that the executive branch has grown too large. By his estimate, any member of a controlling political party has about a 1:2 chance of getting a cabinet appointment at some time in their career as long as they stay in their leaders good book. Cabinet positions, of course, offer more money, more prestige, and a big line item on your resume that greatly advances your career. This gives all MP's more incentive to tow party lines and suck up to their leader rather than representing their constituents. Add the fact that most people vote for their leader nowadays rather than their rep and the problem is compounded.
A couple of solutions are available. (These are mine, I haven't finished the book yet)
1) Double the size of the house by enacting a popular vote to elect the other half of the house.
2) Completely separate executive and legislative branches like in the U.S.
Each has problems and of course you still have the problem of the PM appointed Senate's ability to shoot down any bill their overlord demands (assuming he's been in power long enough to appoint enough of them). So ya I'd agree. We need some serious reform.
Have you seen the polls? Everyone's pretty much tied at the moment. If this keeps up we may have the first time in history (I'm assuming, I haven't looked it up) where 3 parties all have nearly equal seats in the house.
Regardless, Harper isn't the problem. He's a problem, but he's not the problem. I'm in the middle of reading a book called "Irresponsible Government" by Brent Rathgeber, who is a long standing elected member of the house that has recently resigned from the conservative party to run independent. He explains that the real problem in Canada is the consolation of power in the executive branch, specifically in the PM office. He goes through our history, the causes, and what we can do to solve this fundamental problem which obviously points to some level of legislative reform. Highly recommended reading if you want to understand how Harper has been able to push his personal agenda so effectively for so long.
They also aren't the first public entity to try this. Many don't weather the transition as Libre has great difficulty with legacy file formats, macros, etc.
As one anecdotal case, I use LibreOffice in my office while literally everyone else uses MS Office 2010. I'm constantly running into formatting inconsistencies and straight incompatibility with complex spreadsheets. I muddle through it as I have the technical expertise and ideological philosophy that allows, and demands, that I do so; but I wouldn't wish it on my users.
The fact of the matter is that when the business computing industry was naive and young, it got into bed with Microsoft. Now they're regretting it, for good reasons. They put too much faith in that relationship and built their entire lives around it. Now they've been together so long and become so co-dependant that it's going to be a really messy breakup.
Actually that is what I did to your argument in order to disprove it.
I know. I was being ironic. Your "argument" style is to quote snippets and attack them. It's a preferred method for argumentative tops because it allows them to create a strawman. And more than that I'm not interested in arguing with someone, particularly someone that has clearly already made up their mind; I'm interested in rational objective discourse. Take that as a victory if you like. However, to be clear, you can't prove me wrong in a subjective discussion, and you've done nothing to show me you've even considered what I've said. Tldr; go back to reddit if you want to argue inane paltry points of view all day.
Very true. But that is a short sighted approach, and therein lies the why you are looking for. Game devs, hardware vendors, and most general software developers have all their eggs in the Microsoft basket. Microsoft has long released a product that runs slower, takes more of your system resources, and now also spies on you and forces you to use a terrible user interface.
The first rule of any investment is not to put all your eggs in one basket. Gnu/Linux by design does not operate as a single basket but rather an open standard that gives you a choice of basket. Most healthy industries dealing with complex technology operate with open standards precisely because of this problem. Software has always been the, to put it bluntly, naive exception.
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Windows 10 market share is around 6.5%, so it's definitely not that. The bigger reason is that there's no need to upgrade period. Beyond nearly all operating system vendors (from Desktop to mobile) continually releasing worse OSes than the previous version, RAM is no longer the driving factor behind application performance it used to be. For niche applications like simulation work it still really matters, but even the most hardcore gamer is overkill at 16GB regardless of speed.
Your main beef is with corporate contributions? Why? Because your guy didn't win last time? You're right; corporate contributions are a big problem and nearly all first world countries limit them in one way or another, but your delusion is that you would actually have a choice independent of that. In a two party system, you have no choice, and the puppet you put in the big chair has no teeth; regardless. If you want real change you need election reform. In fact, in order of importance we need: monetary reform, election reform, civil rights reform.
Monetary reform: We current have, and will continue to have, no power when the mechanism that controls all wealth lies, solely, in private interests. Fractional reserve banking, while it has social merits, is the single biggest problem in the western world today. Without reform we are destined, mathematically, for massive economic collapses. It's naive to assume our elected representatives can have any influence over the life blood of our economy when all of it's interest is in private corporations.
Election reform: As discussed above: FPP ultimately degrades into a false choice between two artificially different talking heads. Because it's always more attractive to vote for the guy you think will beat the guy you hate the most, you get a two party system divided largely on controversial social issues. There's alternative methods that more proportionately represent the population and have been tried with success like Mixed-member proportional representation [wikipedia.org].
Civil rights reform: There's an obvious erosion of civil rights underway in all developed nations. Resolving this problem is not possible without resolving the above.
Your main beef is with corporate contributions? Why? Because your guy didn't win last time? You're right; corporate contributions are a big problem and nearly all first world countries limit them in one way or another, but your delusion is that you would actually have a choice independent of that. In a two party system, you have no choice, and the puppet you put in the big chair has no teeth; regardless. If you want real change you need election reform. In fact, in order of importance we need: monetary reform, election reform, civil rights reform.
Monetary reform: We current have, and will continue to have, no power when the mechanism that controls all wealth lies, solely, in private interests. Fractional reserve banking, while it has social merits, is the single biggest problem in the western world today. Without reform we are destined, mathematically, for massive economic collapses. It's naive to assume our elected representatives can have any influence over the life blood of our economy when all of it's interest is in private corporations.
Election reform: As discussed above: FPP ultimately degrades into a false choice between two artificially different talking heads. Because it's always more attractive to vote for the guy you think will beat the guy you hate the most, you get a two party system divided largely on controversial social issues. There's alternative methods that more proportionately represent the population and have been tried with success like Mixed-member proportional representation.
Civil rights reform: There's an obvious erosion of civil rights underway in all developed nations. Resolving this problem is not possible without resolving the above.
"Waste"; as in the left vote is divided 3 ways (NDP, Liberal, Green). It's not specifically a fault of Quebec, but more of first past the post voting. FPP always trends to a 2 party system for this reason exactly. Quebec should get on board with the rest of the country and help us get rid of our mutual enemy: the Conservatives. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the country doesn't vote conservative. This is true for both the popular vote and for the representative vote. However, the Conservatives still keep getting elected because the opposition vote is divided along razor thing lines between (largely) two very similar parties.
You're right, this FUD probably will decide it but I naively hope the public will know better. We need to get back to the reality of economics governed by demand, and away from this supply-side, free market zealot's wet dream of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The reality is: Canada has resources. The world needs resources. We won't be "frozen" out of anything. Despite what Harper tells you.
Literally all of those complaints can be attributed to having a very poor sense of humor, or none at all. How sad.
Don't be a moron. What you're, almost for sure, referencing is the unfortunate but necessary culling of large wildlife populations in relative urban areas where natural predators no longer exist. That is a very fringe political issue that doesn't need to be trolled through this discussion. Although, I did bite.
A nerd, geek, whatever you want to call it, to me, has always meant someone who's unequivocally "not normal". They don't fit in without effort. They don't tow lines, or do things just because "it's tradition" or "that's just way you do it". A nerd is someone that swims against the social current not because it's popular, but solely for their own reasons.
Therefore, this mentality flies in the face of trends and fashion. However, it meshes perfectly with the hipsters quest for irony (a trend who's desire is not to follow trends). Thus, hipsters have embraced their interpretation of "nerd culture" as an ironic fashion trend. It's deeply disturbing and highly offensive if you ask me.
With specific regard to The Big Bang Theory: I think it started as something generally trying to be evocative niche programming, but devolved into a cliche for the current social trend (hipster). Such is the demise of all ratings-chasing television shows.
If you need to use the "reference code" for an image file format, then you are modifying said format. In which case, yes, any modifications need to provide the source as well. This is no different from GPLv2. There's no reason GPLv3 cannot exist beside any other licenses.. in fact it does in nearly any instance it's used. The Linux kernel itself is a pretty good example (GPLv2). The provisions of GPLv3 that have the corporate blowhards up in arms are those that deal with software patents. Specifically where it attempts to correct problems like the the Microsoft/Novell deal that tried to leverage software patents on GPL code to, essentially steal, exclusive ownership of it.
GPLv3 is, currently, the perfect license for any file format standard. It's your best available option if you a) don't want to start a proprietary project from scratch, and/or b) are worried about American corporate greed monetizing the work of a community in which they don't belong, or contribute.
There's no reason you can't use GPL software along side proprietary software. No revision of the GPL prevents that. What you can't do is change the specifics of the file format and try to own the entire package either through patents or monetizing your modifications without distributing the source. Don't believe the FUD.
As far as I know the main differences between GPLv2 and v3 are to do with software patents. IE. Provisions to stop organisations from using modified GPL code in tandem with granted patents to maintain ownership. It's unclear whether most of the FUD in this discussion is directed at the GPL itself or specifically v3. But it's entirely unfounded. This is the appropriate license for this image format.
I think everyone's a little bit confused here. Domain name registry is provided by authorized registrars on behalf on top level domains (tld); in this case .com. The "nameservers" addresses are registered with the tld, which will then provide second, third, forth, whatever you want level lookups. I haven't read tfa but this had to be a registrar goof up. Most give at least a 3 month grace period for renewals even after it expires. And that's just for regular joes. I'm sure titans of the internet have special rules.
Comments are for discussion. I was attempting to start one. But nevermind, I know your type and this argument will never end. So let's just say you're right and you win.
Who shit in your cheerios? Relax dude.
According to most, Snowden did his patriotic duty. You don't even have the sack to post with a registered account, yet you're going to be judge jury and executioner for this man? If even a small fraction of the world had half the courage of this man our collective western society would be much better. Like it used to be.
What is he doing in Russia? If he's still there. Admittantly I haven't been following the story that closely. But how does he have a computer or food? Does he have a job? Is he working for the Russian government? If that's the case I'd have to say he's just traded one evil for another.
Because Windows on ARM has been nothing but a giant success so far.
Rathgeber is the single author. Coyne merely wrote the forward. I read the rest of your post but I have to admit I didn't quite follow all of it.
According to Rathgeber, the problem is that the executive branch has grown too large. By his estimate, any member of a controlling political party has about a 1:2 chance of getting a cabinet appointment at some time in their career as long as they stay in their leaders good book. Cabinet positions, of course, offer more money, more prestige, and a big line item on your resume that greatly advances your career. This gives all MP's more incentive to tow party lines and suck up to their leader rather than representing their constituents. Add the fact that most people vote for their leader nowadays rather than their rep and the problem is compounded.
A couple of solutions are available. (These are mine, I haven't finished the book yet)
1) Double the size of the house by enacting a popular vote to elect the other half of the house.
2) Completely separate executive and legislative branches like in the U.S.
Each has problems and of course you still have the problem of the PM appointed Senate's ability to shoot down any bill their overlord demands (assuming he's been in power long enough to appoint enough of them). So ya I'd agree. We need some serious reform.
Have you seen the polls? Everyone's pretty much tied at the moment. If this keeps up we may have the first time in history (I'm assuming, I haven't looked it up) where 3 parties all have nearly equal seats in the house.
Regardless, Harper isn't the problem. He's a problem, but he's not the problem. I'm in the middle of reading a book called "Irresponsible Government" by Brent Rathgeber, who is a long standing elected member of the house that has recently resigned from the conservative party to run independent. He explains that the real problem in Canada is the consolation of power in the executive branch, specifically in the PM office. He goes through our history, the causes, and what we can do to solve this fundamental problem which obviously points to some level of legislative reform. Highly recommended reading if you want to understand how Harper has been able to push his personal agenda so effectively for so long.
Is there really no option to block people on slashdot?
They also aren't the first public entity to try this. Many don't weather the transition as Libre has great difficulty with legacy file formats, macros, etc.
As one anecdotal case, I use LibreOffice in my office while literally everyone else uses MS Office 2010. I'm constantly running into formatting inconsistencies and straight incompatibility with complex spreadsheets. I muddle through it as I have the technical expertise and ideological philosophy that allows, and demands, that I do so; but I wouldn't wish it on my users.
The fact of the matter is that when the business computing industry was naive and young, it got into bed with Microsoft. Now they're regretting it, for good reasons. They put too much faith in that relationship and built their entire lives around it. Now they've been together so long and become so co-dependant that it's going to be a really messy breakup.
Actually that is what I did to your argument in order to disprove it.
I know. I was being ironic. Your "argument" style is to quote snippets and attack them. It's a preferred method for argumentative tops because it allows them to create a strawman. And more than that I'm not interested in arguing with someone, particularly someone that has clearly already made up their mind; I'm interested in rational objective discourse. Take that as a victory if you like. However, to be clear, you can't prove me wrong in a subjective discussion, and you've done nothing to show me you've even considered what I've said. Tldr; go back to reddit if you want to argue inane paltry points of view all day.
None of your arguments are valid, but I see little point in picking your argument apart line by line; You have clearly made up your mind.
Very true. But that is a short sighted approach, and therein lies the why you are looking for. Game devs, hardware vendors, and most general software developers have all their eggs in the Microsoft basket. Microsoft has long released a product that runs slower, takes more of your system resources, and now also spies on you and forces you to use a terrible user interface.
The first rule of any investment is not to put all your eggs in one basket. Gnu/Linux by design does not operate as a single basket but rather an open standard that gives you a choice of basket. Most healthy industries dealing with complex technology operate with open standards precisely because of this problem. Software has always been the, to put it bluntly, naive exception.