More distributions need to drop this bloated garbage and go back to basics. I run a custom arch install with a heavily customized openbox window manager (including the addition of a custom "start bar") and it's amazing. It's extremely fast, works fine with gtk themes, and looks great.
The major reason to use 7 over xp, besides xp's EOL from Microsoft, is the 4gb RAM limitation caused by the 32 bit address register. While there is a 64bit version, if you've ever used it you'll learn pretty quickly that driver and application support is terrible for it. That's why I upgraded to 7 years ago.
I switched to arch Linux about a year ago which comes with systemd and I have to say I absolutely love it. Before services and logs were always confusing. Is there a start up script? Had it been converted to an upstart job? Where are the log files? Etc. Once you learn how to use systemctl and journalctl there no more mystery... You always know where to look. Just my 2c.
I think everyone's getting really tired of seeing these articles. It's starting to seem more like a troll attempt than anything valid that needs to be discussed.
I'd agree with you almost entirely except for your subtle compassion for Bell. Telecoms love to claim that the infrastructure is theirs because they built it. The only problem is, in the majority of situations, the tax payers have actually subsidized the infrastructure cost. Even where they haven't they are still permitted to absolute control over assets on government land. It seems pretty brazen to me to insist they can install their infrastructure on public land without oversight.
Bell, Telus, Rogers, and Shaw realize record profits... year over year. This is simply because, together, they enjoy what is the bane of capitalism: monopoly. Individually none of them hold a monopoly, but together they hold a monopolistic cartel over us. This is why I, and everyone else, pays $100+ a month for telecom services. You're smart and stream most of your media? Guess what, they have a plan for that too. I know a few people on the inside that tell me telecoms have open meetings about raising internet service prices to offset (what they call) "cable-cutters".
Our system of government, flawed as it may be, is completely broken by monopolized industry. This is why industries like banking and telecoms are so heavily regulated. I'd agree that regualtion isn't the answer, but not for the same reasons as you do. Regulation in this sense is like putting a bandaid on gangrene.
Ya I'd also like to respectfully decline that offer. We don't really want to deal with that whole Republican party thing you guys have got going on down there.
They're forcing Bell to play fair, which ultimately is good for Canadian citizens as it limits the power of the telecom oligarchy. I would agree that it's far from "common sense" though. Drowning an industry in regulations rather than curing the underlying problem is lazy and short-sighted. If you want my 2c, the entire telecom infrastructure needs to be appropriated and put into the public domain. Maintenance and access to it can then be contracted out, much like we do with traffic infrastructure.
I don't really understand the rage being directed at Google here. They have fixed the issue in new versions of Android. If they back-ported the fix to 4.3 (assuming that's even possible) what would make carriers/manufacturers implement the fix when they already aren't updating the core version? Nothing. And they wouldn't. The carriers/manufacturers have financially abandoned these older models in favor or their new stuff.
People are used to a big brother company controlling everything about a software experience (Apple, Microsoft). The google approach is open. Unfortunately this requires the user to do a little bit of thinking, make an informed choice, and support the right companies with their money.
Corporate IT is very "if it aint broke, don't fix it"., and that's both a good philosophy to have, and one that the emerging IT culture needs to re-adopt. I've worked with many young sysadmins that have what I call "update obsession". Everything always has to be the latest and greatest, and they pay the price for it. Stick with what works. This is the main reason I still use Cisco equipment that runs IOS. IOS hasn't changed much in decades, but it doesn't need to. You configure it, and leave it... for years. This new generation might cringe at the IOS CLI when they're used to web GUIs, but hey... if it aint broke... don't fix it, and Cisco knows that. Someone also needs to bring this philosophy to Microsoft, Google, and Apple. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every 5 years, just because it's been 5 years.
What immediately ticked me off with 10 tech preview was how they hide creating a normal account on the local SAM database. They are really trying to force Microsoft accounts and the cloud down everyone's throat. They need to f*ck off with that immediately if they want any attention from the enterprise.
This. Port your entire project to Java/MariaDB and then you never have to ask this question again. Make your life easy and build your forms with netbeans.
I'll take your attempt at condescension as an indirect admission of losing the argument. You know very well that you can launder cash through gambling or currency exchange as well. The point remains that there are more ways to launder cash than there are to launder bitcoins. Bitcoins are no less lacking in "accountability" than cash, gold, or any other medium of trade except maybe digital currency controlled by the federal reserve.
Not true. It's a common misconception that the decentralized nature of the bitcoin protocol makes all transactions anonymous. Bitcoin is actually easier to track than even cash considering every transaction is recorded in a public ledger that is required for the entire mechanism to work: the block chain. This makes it very difficult to "wash" bitcoins as the washing mechanism could not be tied to the theif like it commonly is today (ie. a small business front for money laundering). De-centralized just means lack of control from an establishment. The actual use of the currency is very trackable and law enforcement friendly.
Bitcoin has problems, but a lack of accountability isn't one of them. You could argue cash has "zero accountability". What stops you from stealing cash? The law. Because the law doesn't care about bitcoin, yet, doesn't mean it never will.
Bitcoins major problems are two:
1) Fixed supply ideology. Anything with a fixed supply, when up against the nature of human economics, is deflationary. Bitcoin proponents will aruge that coins are divisible so wages and prices will scale accordingly, but this is an incorrect assumption. If that were true no amount of inflation or deflation would ever be a problem as the market would just auto-adjust. The truth is, targeting a small amount of inflation in a currency is ideal for a lot of good reasons I won't ramble on about. You will never get them to listen on this point anyways.
2) The 51% problem. The only labor involved in "mining" bitcoins is the creating the integrated circuits that can solve the SHA hash. Because only specialized industries can provide this labor a 51% monopolization of the network is almost a certainty. We can already see ASIC manufacturers getting dangerously close to this today. Bitcoin proponents will argue that ASICs ruined everything. If we could have only kept mining exclusive to general purpose CPU's everything would be fine. What they don't understand, is the problem of specialized labor, being the only labor required to mine a bitcoin. Because of this, whether it's intel, or ghash.io, or AMD, it doesn't matter. Someone is always going to be able to use their specialized labor to monopolize the market. It will never be safe.
Bitcoin is a great idea. We need something like bitcoin going forward. However, we'll see better success in something like bitcoin2.0 as the current implimentation is just broken from a technical and economic standpoint.
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Sorry, but they were. I'd rather simple and clean.
I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm legitimately wondering why these distro maintainers don't try something new/better.
More distributions need to drop this bloated garbage and go back to basics. I run a custom arch install with a heavily customized openbox window manager (including the addition of a custom "start bar") and it's amazing. It's extremely fast, works fine with gtk themes, and looks great.
The major reason to use 7 over xp, besides xp's EOL from Microsoft, is the 4gb RAM limitation caused by the 32 bit address register. While there is a 64bit version, if you've ever used it you'll learn pretty quickly that driver and application support is terrible for it. That's why I upgraded to 7 years ago.
So basically if I'm understanding you right... those damn kids just won't stay off your lawn?
I switched to arch Linux about a year ago which comes with systemd and I have to say I absolutely love it. Before services and logs were always confusing. Is there a start up script? Had it been converted to an upstart job? Where are the log files? Etc. Once you learn how to use systemctl and journalctl there no more mystery... You always know where to look. Just my 2c.
I think everyone's getting really tired of seeing these articles. It's starting to seem more like a troll attempt than anything valid that needs to be discussed.
I'd agree with you almost entirely except for your subtle compassion for Bell. Telecoms love to claim that the infrastructure is theirs because they built it. The only problem is, in the majority of situations, the tax payers have actually subsidized the infrastructure cost. Even where they haven't they are still permitted to absolute control over assets on government land. It seems pretty brazen to me to insist they can install their infrastructure on public land without oversight.
Bell, Telus, Rogers, and Shaw realize record profits... year over year. This is simply because, together, they enjoy what is the bane of capitalism: monopoly. Individually none of them hold a monopoly, but together they hold a monopolistic cartel over us. This is why I, and everyone else, pays $100+ a month for telecom services. You're smart and stream most of your media? Guess what, they have a plan for that too. I know a few people on the inside that tell me telecoms have open meetings about raising internet service prices to offset (what they call) "cable-cutters".
Our system of government, flawed as it may be, is completely broken by monopolized industry. This is why industries like banking and telecoms are so heavily regulated. I'd agree that regualtion isn't the answer, but not for the same reasons as you do. Regulation in this sense is like putting a bandaid on gangrene.
Ya I'd also like to respectfully decline that offer. We don't really want to deal with that whole Republican party thing you guys have got going on down there.
They're forcing Bell to play fair, which ultimately is good for Canadian citizens as it limits the power of the telecom oligarchy. I would agree that it's far from "common sense" though. Drowning an industry in regulations rather than curing the underlying problem is lazy and short-sighted. If you want my 2c, the entire telecom infrastructure needs to be appropriated and put into the public domain. Maintenance and access to it can then be contracted out, much like we do with traffic infrastructure.
Tablets are kinda good for playing Hearthstone. That's the only use I've found so far.
I would, and do, buy the nexus and sony phones. The nexus 4 is upgradable to Android 5.0, and the xperia z1 is still upgradable to 4.4.4 i think.
I don't really understand the rage being directed at Google here. They have fixed the issue in new versions of Android. If they back-ported the fix to 4.3 (assuming that's even possible) what would make carriers/manufacturers implement the fix when they already aren't updating the core version? Nothing. And they wouldn't. The carriers/manufacturers have financially abandoned these older models in favor or their new stuff.
People are used to a big brother company controlling everything about a software experience (Apple, Microsoft). The google approach is open. Unfortunately this requires the user to do a little bit of thinking, make an informed choice, and support the right companies with their money.
At least it wasn't Apple or Facebook. Take your victories where you can.
Sure.
Apple >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Google > Microsoft > Blackberry
I'm not fanboy, but I'd imagine a lot of people feel strongly about supporting the lesser of the two evils in the mobile market.
Corporate IT is very "if it aint broke, don't fix it"., and that's both a good philosophy to have, and one that the emerging IT culture needs to re-adopt. I've worked with many young sysadmins that have what I call "update obsession". Everything always has to be the latest and greatest, and they pay the price for it. Stick with what works. This is the main reason I still use Cisco equipment that runs IOS. IOS hasn't changed much in decades, but it doesn't need to. You configure it, and leave it... for years. This new generation might cringe at the IOS CLI when they're used to web GUIs, but hey... if it aint broke... don't fix it, and Cisco knows that. Someone also needs to bring this philosophy to Microsoft, Google, and Apple. You don't need to reinvent the wheel every 5 years, just because it's been 5 years.
What immediately ticked me off with 10 tech preview was how they hide creating a normal account on the local SAM database. They are really trying to force Microsoft accounts and the cloud down everyone's throat. They need to f*ck off with that immediately if they want any attention from the enterprise.
This. Port your entire project to Java/MariaDB and then you never have to ask this question again. Make your life easy and build your forms with netbeans.
Netbeans makes working with swing forms a breeze. I'd like to vote for java as well.
California tried to give everyone iPads: very expensive multi-purpose tablets. It was a terrible decision.
Something like this could work but the device would have to be specially designed for the purpose. Something with an e-ink display would be ideal.
ghash.io has secured the presidency for [insert whomever paid the most].
I'll take your attempt at condescension as an indirect admission of losing the argument. You know very well that you can launder cash through gambling or currency exchange as well. The point remains that there are more ways to launder cash than there are to launder bitcoins. Bitcoins are no less lacking in "accountability" than cash, gold, or any other medium of trade except maybe digital currency controlled by the federal reserve.
Not true. It's a common misconception that the decentralized nature of the bitcoin protocol makes all transactions anonymous. Bitcoin is actually easier to track than even cash considering every transaction is recorded in a public ledger that is required for the entire mechanism to work: the block chain. This makes it very difficult to "wash" bitcoins as the washing mechanism could not be tied to the theif like it commonly is today (ie. a small business front for money laundering). De-centralized just means lack of control from an establishment. The actual use of the currency is very trackable and law enforcement friendly.
Bitcoin has problems, but a lack of accountability isn't one of them. You could argue cash has "zero accountability". What stops you from stealing cash? The law. Because the law doesn't care about bitcoin, yet, doesn't mean it never will.
Bitcoins major problems are two:
1) Fixed supply ideology. Anything with a fixed supply, when up against the nature of human economics, is deflationary. Bitcoin proponents will aruge that coins are divisible so wages and prices will scale accordingly, but this is an incorrect assumption. If that were true no amount of inflation or deflation would ever be a problem as the market would just auto-adjust. The truth is, targeting a small amount of inflation in a currency is ideal for a lot of good reasons I won't ramble on about. You will never get them to listen on this point anyways.
2) The 51% problem. The only labor involved in "mining" bitcoins is the creating the integrated circuits that can solve the SHA hash. Because only specialized industries can provide this labor a 51% monopolization of the network is almost a certainty. We can already see ASIC manufacturers getting dangerously close to this today. Bitcoin proponents will argue that ASICs ruined everything. If we could have only kept mining exclusive to general purpose CPU's everything would be fine. What they don't understand, is the problem of specialized labor, being the only labor required to mine a bitcoin. Because of this, whether it's intel, or ghash.io, or AMD, it doesn't matter. Someone is always going to be able to use their specialized labor to monopolize the market. It will never be safe.
Bitcoin is a great idea. We need something like bitcoin going forward. However, we'll see better success in something like bitcoin2.0 as the current implimentation is just broken from a technical and economic standpoint.