Yes, non-violent, non-destructive behavior is typically best handled by a display of destruction and violence.
Why waste ammo/time shooting the drone. Someone else will just fly another one. Best just go shoot the pilot. That will teach everyone a proper lesson is who is in charge.
He's saying to find the answer for the first problem (A, X) requires a completely different approach than the second (B, Y). The problems are not equivalent, so comparing them is stupid.
You know, I felt the same way a year ago. I still wish it was more tweakable, but the extensions are helping. I am much faster at getting around my desktop in Gnome-Shell than I am with Gnome2. Reason being is I can do more with just the keyboard.
I was a big Gnome-Do user. That's pretty much built-in now. I don't have to touch my mouse to move around apps. Their Alt+Tab feature is pretty slick. It shows Chromium and Alt+~ moves through the multiple instances I have open (OK so I don't usually have more than one thanks to tabs, but as an example...)
It's a bigger resource hog, but I have 12GB of RAM in the box I run it on. It doesn't feel that polished, but I really have few serious problems.
What they should be doing is focusing on the extensions paradigm. Let people create extensions to turn it into whatever type of system they want. If you want a traditional taskbar, get an extension. Distros could apply whatever extensions they want to create varying types of "Gnome". That would give them some direction that they say the project has lost.
I recently completed research into thorium power plants. It was for an English paper, so it wasn't about the science, I wanted to understand why, if thorium was so groovy, we went with uranium back in the day (short answer: the military-industrial complex).
I also found that the nuclear industry today has little interest because they make a bunch of money doing nothing. Between 2006-2011, the CEO of Exelon pocketed $153 million. Things are just fine the way they are, as far as they're concerned.
Not all like you suggest. In the case of someone breaking into your house and smearing shit all over, you have cost of clean up, replacement of items that were damaged beyond repair, etc.
What monetary cost did Safari users incur by Google's actions?
I don't disagree it was a shitty practice, but your analogy is flawed.
Disregard the fact the full tagline is "News for Nerds", I happen to enjoy living in a world where "news" isn't confined to what one persons thinks it should be.
Yes, but it also guarantees the rights of everyone else. I remember in my 7th grade civics class learning that my rights end where another persons start.
When a corporation consolidates too much power, it can abuse others rights. We have every right to defend ours and if that means ripping that corporation apart, so be it. It is protecting the rights of those individuals that work there as well. Not everyone will work for Google, Apple and the other big dogs forever.
We need to protect individual rights of everyone. Not just those that choose to organize. Petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is different than lobbying for more laws to favor your position of power.
It can also mean a rental delivered to your door. Fewer people may find they don't need a car of their own if, for a monthly fee, one is waiting for them to go to work in the morning, or get you out of town for the weekend. A family may decide they only need to own one.
If you're trying to suggest that they'd only let you commute to Sears when you want to go to Macy's, that's crazy talk. First, they'll probably have manual control modes. Second, what a way to alienate your customer base. "Oh sorry, you need to pay for the map to go there." No one would buy these cars at all if they did that.
The oil industry is a very mature industry at this point. It does not need tax breaks. This is more of the "but they're the jorb creators! We can't take their money or they won't pay for jorbs!" crap that has been shot down over and over.
If tax payers need not subsidize student loan debt, why should they subsidize an industry that has a ready group to cover their operating costs, the people that drive cars. No need to fund via subsidy an industry with billions of customers.
A mature industry reaping billions in profit each year should not be subsidized. If you're worried about the matter of "fairness" in tax policy, which really is an elementary school notion, how fair is it we continue to let billionaire businesses while slashing spending on education? You know an educated populace is probably worth more on the whole than oil industry, since we won't be able to actually rely on oil forever. Better to have spent money on educating people than throwing it at an industry with an expiration date.
If you note in the comments, quite a few people were calling out Lovelock as not taken seriously by actual climate scientists. Doesn't seem to help your position all that well.
All the problems people grouse about with Linux on the desktop exist on Mac and Windows. You can find 100 pieces of hardware that won't work out of the box and require tweaking, newer drives, etc. on all of them. You can find another 100 that work on all out of the box.
Wave a wand so that Linux has 80+ percent of the desktop share instead, and people will bitch about how Windows has the problems they pin on Linux today. "My built in motherboard card didn't work without tweaking/driver." Yeah, I just built a media center PC with new components. I put Windows 7 Ultimate on it, since it will be a Netflix box. I spent ~20 minutes waiting for the OS to install and another 30+ installing drivers and plugins and whatever.
Most users don't deal with that shit because they buy a laptop from Dell or HP who does it for them. They can do the same with Linux and the user would never know. Except they don't, because MS strong armed them into loading Windows for years and now no one gives a rats ass to use anything else. For them "it just works", when really "it just works" because Dell and HP did the work for them.
Google has banned Windows internally except in situations where a business critical app requires it; Mac or Linux only otherwise. I know of dozens of small companies that are purely Linux (many of them are not involved in dev or IT) It can be done and done well. It's just buying the licenses and installing it is seen as "easier."
You know what: until you get beyond a certain point, it is. At one small company, we had 30 Windows users, I made disk images with various software loads and updated them every 6 months. Later, I worked on a huge SCCM deployment project to manage a universities desktop computers (comp labs and offices, ~5/k machines) and it was a fucking nightmare, because Windows is a horrible network OS. Meanwhile, the UNIX team hardly touched their networked machines thanks to a robust and relatively easy to deal with Puppet setup (including various addons).
Windows is better because it's everywhere and people are use to it and really it works well most of time. Linux is not as ubiquitous, but also can be made to work well most of the time. This argument is rarely based on technical merits and typically devolves into opinion and preference. And Macs are only used by douche bag hipsters:P
I have worked at Sprint in their retail stores. We would blacklist phone serials if customers told us. Friends from that time migrated to Verizon and I've heard they do the same. So the ability has existed for a while. It's been up to the customer to say something.
And making sure a phone won't work on another carrier is only useful between T-Mobile and AT&T.
Verizon and Sprint maintain a DB of phones they've "approved" and will not activate a device that isn't on that list. You cannot take a Verizon phone and activate it on Sprint, nor vice versa.
While I'm sure this will help, I don't see it as having a huge impact here in the US, thanks to how the carriers do business.
Among others... I'd appreciate it if we stopped romanticizing our history and recognize that the US has pretty much always relied on force to get what they want (including going to war to get away from the crown).
That is the reality of American history: Shoot our way into getting what we want.
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Yes, non-violent, non-destructive behavior is typically best handled by a display of destruction and violence.
Why waste ammo/time shooting the drone. Someone else will just fly another one. Best just go shoot the pilot. That will teach everyone a proper lesson is who is in charge.
It seems you misunderstood the analogy.
He's saying to find the answer for the first problem (A, X) requires a completely different approach than the second (B, Y). The problems are not equivalent, so comparing them is stupid.
Just wait till Microsoft comes out with their own phone.
They pretty much are. They've effectively turned Nokia into their "Windows Phone division".
You know, I felt the same way a year ago. I still wish it was more tweakable, but the extensions are helping. I am much faster at getting around my desktop in Gnome-Shell than I am with Gnome2. Reason being is I can do more with just the keyboard.
I was a big Gnome-Do user. That's pretty much built-in now. I don't have to touch my mouse to move around apps. Their Alt+Tab feature is pretty slick. It shows Chromium and Alt+~ moves through the multiple instances I have open (OK so I don't usually have more than one thanks to tabs, but as an example...)
It's a bigger resource hog, but I have 12GB of RAM in the box I run it on. It doesn't feel that polished, but I really have few serious problems.
What they should be doing is focusing on the extensions paradigm. Let people create extensions to turn it into whatever type of system they want. If you want a traditional taskbar, get an extension. Distros could apply whatever extensions they want to create varying types of "Gnome". That would give them some direction that they say the project has lost.
Hopefully he has backed important company data up to the network share that every company I've ever worked at provides.
I recently completed research into thorium power plants. It was for an English paper, so it wasn't about the science, I wanted to understand why, if thorium was so groovy, we went with uranium back in the day (short answer: the military-industrial complex).
I also found that the nuclear industry today has little interest because they make a bunch of money doing nothing. Between 2006-2011, the CEO of Exelon pocketed $153 million. Things are just fine the way they are, as far as they're concerned.
The engineers say there's little risk. The suits and general public that don't understand it need to be consoled some other way.
Not all like you suggest. In the case of someone breaking into your house and smearing shit all over, you have cost of clean up, replacement of items that were damaged beyond repair, etc.
What monetary cost did Safari users incur by Google's actions?
I don't disagree it was a shitty practice, but your analogy is flawed.
Do manufacturers still ship their own EULA that says if you don't accept the MS EULA, you must return the laptop (and pay the restock fee?).
It's been a while since I've seen one, but I know Gateway had them at one point. It was a "hardware" EULA or some such nonsense.
Disregard the fact the full tagline is "News for Nerds", I happen to enjoy living in a world where "news" isn't confined to what one persons thinks it should be.
Especially if they're asking grandma or Bill the barber.
"Did you pay for all the software you use on your PC?"
"Have you downloaded software for free?"
Downloading iTunes or AVG would be counted as piracy.
Really need to see the questions before taking this seriously.
Yes, but it also guarantees the rights of everyone else. I remember in my 7th grade civics class learning that my rights end where another persons start.
When a corporation consolidates too much power, it can abuse others rights. We have every right to defend ours and if that means ripping that corporation apart, so be it. It is protecting the rights of those individuals that work there as well. Not everyone will work for Google, Apple and the other big dogs forever.
We need to protect individual rights of everyone. Not just those that choose to organize. Petitioning the government for a redress of grievances is different than lobbying for more laws to favor your position of power.
It can also mean a rental delivered to your door. Fewer people may find they don't need a car of their own if, for a monthly fee, one is waiting for them to go to work in the morning, or get you out of town for the weekend. A family may decide they only need to own one.
If you're trying to suggest that they'd only let you commute to Sears when you want to go to Macy's, that's crazy talk. First, they'll probably have manual control modes. Second, what a way to alienate your customer base. "Oh sorry, you need to pay for the map to go there." No one would buy these cars at all if they did that.
The oil industry is a very mature industry at this point. It does not need tax breaks. This is more of the "but they're the jorb creators! We can't take their money or they won't pay for jorbs!" crap that has been shot down over and over.
If tax payers need not subsidize student loan debt, why should they subsidize an industry that has a ready group to cover their operating costs, the people that drive cars. No need to fund via subsidy an industry with billions of customers.
A mature industry reaping billions in profit each year should not be subsidized. If you're worried about the matter of "fairness" in tax policy, which really is an elementary school notion, how fair is it we continue to let billionaire businesses while slashing spending on education? You know an educated populace is probably worth more on the whole than oil industry, since we won't be able to actually rely on oil forever. Better to have spent money on educating people than throwing it at an industry with an expiration date.
If you note in the comments, quite a few people were calling out Lovelock as not taken seriously by actual climate scientists. Doesn't seem to help your position all that well.
All the problems people grouse about with Linux on the desktop exist on Mac and Windows. You can find 100 pieces of hardware that won't work out of the box and require tweaking, newer drives, etc. on all of them. You can find another 100 that work on all out of the box.
Wave a wand so that Linux has 80+ percent of the desktop share instead, and people will bitch about how Windows has the problems they pin on Linux today. "My built in motherboard card didn't work without tweaking/driver." Yeah, I just built a media center PC with new components. I put Windows 7 Ultimate on it, since it will be a Netflix box. I spent ~20 minutes waiting for the OS to install and another 30+ installing drivers and plugins and whatever.
Most users don't deal with that shit because they buy a laptop from Dell or HP who does it for them. They can do the same with Linux and the user would never know. Except they don't, because MS strong armed them into loading Windows for years and now no one gives a rats ass to use anything else. For them "it just works", when really "it just works" because Dell and HP did the work for them.
Google has banned Windows internally except in situations where a business critical app requires it; Mac or Linux only otherwise. I know of dozens of small companies that are purely Linux (many of them are not involved in dev or IT) It can be done and done well. It's just buying the licenses and installing it is seen as "easier."
You know what: until you get beyond a certain point, it is. At one small company, we had 30 Windows users, I made disk images with various software loads and updated them every 6 months. Later, I worked on a huge SCCM deployment project to manage a universities desktop computers (comp labs and offices, ~5/k machines) and it was a fucking nightmare, because Windows is a horrible network OS. Meanwhile, the UNIX team hardly touched their networked machines thanks to a robust and relatively easy to deal with Puppet setup (including various addons).
Windows is better because it's everywhere and people are use to it and really it works well most of time. Linux is not as ubiquitous, but also can be made to work well most of the time. This argument is rarely based on technical merits and typically devolves into opinion and preference. And Macs are only used by douche bag hipsters :P
Well it all started when Microsoft strong armed vendors into using their OS as the shipped OS. After it was everywhere, no one wanted to switch.
Does it bother no one but me that the person responsible for the abomination that is PulseAudio is writing systemd?
What good timing. There just happen to be a bunch of Kickstarter projects that will need a way to distribute their promised Linux clients.
How so? MapleStory is free to play, AFAIK. They give the client away. So there is no money to be made from the client itself.
Did UMaple break into MapleStory's servers and steal their server code? I find no evidence of it.
Are we under an obligation to use a free software client only to access the servers the company says?
I have worked at Sprint in their retail stores. We would blacklist phone serials if customers told us. Friends from that time migrated to Verizon and I've heard they do the same. So the ability has existed for a while. It's been up to the customer to say something.
And making sure a phone won't work on another carrier is only useful between T-Mobile and AT&T.
Verizon and Sprint maintain a DB of phones they've "approved" and will not activate a device that isn't on that list. You cannot take a Verizon phone and activate it on Sprint, nor vice versa.
While I'm sure this will help, I don't see it as having a huge impact here in the US, thanks to how the carriers do business.
Not my wife or girlfriend, thankfully.
The America you grew up in is the same as the one you live in now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Among others... I'd appreciate it if we stopped romanticizing our history and recognize that the US has pretty much always relied on force to get what they want (including going to war to get away from the crown).
That is the reality of American history: Shoot our way into getting what we want.
Strip searches during admission are not going to stop someone on the inside from getting their hands on a shank.
So you get to both have a light shined up your arse and get stabbed in the neck.
Enjoy your stay.