because of their rant, the criterion is not "do I have three lines of code in source control" but "do I have a working OS that I can compare to Linux or BSD"
So, on their flame page of "why we rulez and you dr00lz" page, they have TODO - rewrite this.
So, you expect to do a full OS, take over the world, and you can't even finish a c.300 word rant. Sure....
Besides running on PCs, BSD and Linux are the core of iOS/watchOS/tvOS/macOS and android. We're talking billions of devices here. I'd be interested to know what they call a failure. If you have one of these "failure OS"s in your pocket, you may reconsider your zealotry.
"seamonkey sucks" at the time of the split. I haven't used seamonkey since early Phoenix days. It may have shaken out a lot.
The point is not whether i think it sucks, but whether the devs decided "screw it lets just restart everything" and rewrite basic code. again. for the third time.
There was a quote by Krugman, who i listen too since he shows his work and you can retrace his steps. And he gets a lot of things right. Talking about Clinton vs Hillary, he mentions something like "I saw the Republicans attack Hillary back when most Sanders supporters were still eating crayons". Most (not all but most) of Hillary's skeletons are exposed. Even odd ones, like attacking her for Lewinsky - vaguely something like "a real woman would satisfy her man".
Sanders hasn't been attacked yet. Clinton has run a very calm issue oriented campaign (unlike Sanders soemtimes). meaning, he doesn't have much experience defending himself against anyone yet. Come November it would be Swift Boats for Bernie.
Besides the dirty play, i don't think an America where 35-40% of people would vote for the zero relevant experience demagogue would vote for Sanders. you may be yuuugeee-ly fanatical, that doesnt mean everyone else is.
Anyone that uses the word sheeple should be ignored.
Not even in a pissy "how dare you call anyone that" way. But a practical matter. Basically, if you think someone who chooses differently than you must be a sheep, you don't have any idea how to understand someone else's reasoning, you have no skill or interest in modelling them as a human, so therefore you offer nothing to that person.
They removed the stock encryption they got for free from AOSP. That's probably not easily circumvented, though better crypto techs could weigh in.
The big thing, is the tablets were so cheap, and therefore the processors so slow, they weren't encrypting by default anyway. This will probably affect pretty much no one in the real world - you had to dig into settings to enable it to slow your device down - but the optics aren't that good.
I'm not sure why you're trying to make the first point. I'm sure somehow whatsapp will get along with it's billions of users and somehow manage the few users here and there that don't use it.
The last two points ignore network effects. All these chat programs pretty much just talk to themselves. If all your friends have whatsapp, and your phone can't talk to whatsapp, you're not talking to them. You can get all your friends to switch to a new talk program (good luck with that) or you can switch phones.
As far as the last point, you're asking a developer to put money into developing for a shrinking userbase, or they can put money into developing for a growing platform. Which would you pick?
So I'm an athlete. I train hard for a decade or more. 10 hours a day. 6 days a week.
I get one shot every 4 years. Depending on my sport, i may get just 2 shots, sometimes Im lucky enough to be in a sport that i may get 3, 4 shots at the Olympics.
And you're saying that giving up one of my 2 shots in a lifetime is an easy choice, just snap my fingers. More important to give a middle finger and give up my dream and make that sacrifice almost useless.
This is why athletes go. This is why team management lets the athletes go. Yeah, it's the IOC, but dealing with the IOC is a requirement to be in the Olympics. Necessary evil.
A while back, people asked questions bout why you'd use Incognito Mode in a non-pr0n situation. This is one of those reasons.
Also, i didn't notice anything as to WHY people block ads. Namely, i would have liked a "we promise to actively check ads to make sure they don't try to hijack your browser, or set EverCookies". We're not blocking ads to screw you. We're blocking ads to not have you screw us. Address that and then we'll talk.
I had a friend who made "mass marketing email software". SPAM software. he knew people hated the emails, but needed the cash. He just got married at that time.
There's a guy that tried hard to make a toaster all by himself. went to elements, tried to get to a toaster. He didn't quite get there all by himself. he needed to cut a few corners.
So, a many order of magnitude more complicated object such as a network attached computer.... this argument is interesting in theory. But it's irrelevant in real life. You'll never get a useful machine that you know all that's happening to it.
Not sure how making claims for things that there's no way he can pull off makes him better than any other candidate. In my mind it makes him pretty consistent with many other candidates. Promise the moon and the stars and then backtrack like mad once elected. Yep, pretty much like any other candidate to me
To be honest, Apple is arguably better at this point than Microsoft was at a similar point in it's lifecycle, from a tech standpoint. Rootless MacOSX is a thing. Gatekeeper, though major holes, is a thing. It's just that back then, the Internet was not as much of a source of riches. There's never been a Slammer work for MacOSX. Nor a "I love you" virus.
You know who else had really bad security reputation? Redhat was horrible in the beginning. You know what famous developer doesn't pay enough attention to security? Linus Torvalds.
Not to skewer MS. Not to skewer Linus or Linux. But realize we're comparing relative bad here. The best OS from a security standpoint is just the least horrible OS on a security standpoint.
Security is hard. How do i patch an infinite state machine against people who can make a lot of money breaking it. It's not a trivial task.
I really never understood the anger of someone mad that someone else bought, well any item.
"you're such a _____ fanboi and you buy _____ and you suck (____'s CEO)'s dick!"
Who the hell cares. You buy what you want to buy, If you don't have a mac this doesn't affect you in the least. At least the Linux fanboi's could bitch at MS worms taking enough bandwidth to hurt Internet speeds. Apple Mac market share is small enough (through growing) to not hurt anyone not owning a Mac. This really isn't a true new worm. Anyone getting you to install a new app that partially passes gatekeeper can probably get you to install it and override gatekeeper. It's not that big of a leap.
I honestly feel bad at anyone angry at Apple selling too many computers. Do you need a cookie? Want to talk about it? Did your parents love you enough as a child?
Not to mention, at its very core, it violates thermodynamics,
anyone able to elaborate on this? My guess would be "if we had all transactions in bitcoin, mining requirements would exceed planetary energy resources" but that's just a guess.
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because of their rant, the criterion is not "do I have three lines of code in source control" but "do I have a working OS that I can compare to Linux or BSD"
So, on their flame page of "why we rulez and you dr00lz" page, they have TODO - rewrite this.
So, you expect to do a full OS, take over the world, and you can't even finish a c.300 word rant. Sure....
Besides running on PCs, BSD and Linux are the core of iOS/watchOS/tvOS/macOS and android. We're talking billions of devices here. I'd be interested to know what they call a failure. If you have one of these "failure OS"s in your pocket, you may reconsider your zealotry.
"seamonkey sucks" at the time of the split. I haven't used seamonkey since early Phoenix days. It may have shaken out a lot.
The point is not whether i think it sucks, but whether the devs decided "screw it lets just restart everything" and rewrite basic code. again. for the third time.
Netscape 4 sucks, so lets throw it out and start again. Back when Spolsky could write he bitched about this.
Mozilla seamonkey sucks, so lets gut most of it and make Phoenix (now known as Firefox)
And now this again?
Is there a Morocco Mole?
This. Love Bernie however much you do. Love the fact that he pushed Clinton left. But there's a zero percent chance he'd win the Oval Office.
This election has been nothing but fear mongering. Republicans would fear Bernie more than Trump.
There was a quote by Krugman, who i listen too since he shows his work and you can retrace his steps. And he gets a lot of things right. Talking about Clinton vs Hillary, he mentions something like "I saw the Republicans attack Hillary back when most Sanders supporters were still eating crayons". Most (not all but most) of Hillary's skeletons are exposed. Even odd ones, like attacking her for Lewinsky - vaguely something like "a real woman would satisfy her man".
Sanders hasn't been attacked yet. Clinton has run a very calm issue oriented campaign (unlike Sanders soemtimes). meaning, he doesn't have much experience defending himself against anyone yet. Come November it would be Swift Boats for Bernie.
Besides the dirty play, i don't think an America where 35-40% of people would vote for the zero relevant experience demagogue would vote for Sanders. you may be yuuugeee-ly fanatical, that doesnt mean everyone else is.
It's not UNIX like. It's UNIX. SVR3 based. From Wikipedia, It's even certified UNIX, and it's still under active development.
Megatron, a.k.a. Calvin Johnson, just retired from the NFL. I guess he ran out of Energon.
Anyone that uses the word sheeple should be ignored.
Not even in a pissy "how dare you call anyone that" way. But a practical matter. Basically, if you think someone who chooses differently than you must be a sheep, you don't have any idea how to understand someone else's reasoning, you have no skill or interest in modelling them as a human, so therefore you offer nothing to that person.
They removed the stock encryption they got for free from AOSP. That's probably not easily circumvented, though better crypto techs could weigh in.
The big thing, is the tablets were so cheap, and therefore the processors so slow, they weren't encrypting by default anyway. This will probably affect pretty much no one in the real world - you had to dig into settings to enable it to slow your device down - but the optics aren't that good.
I'm not sure why you're trying to make the first point. I'm sure somehow whatsapp will get along with it's billions of users and somehow manage the few users here and there that don't use it.
The last two points ignore network effects. All these chat programs pretty much just talk to themselves. If all your friends have whatsapp, and your phone can't talk to whatsapp, you're not talking to them. You can get all your friends to switch to a new talk program (good luck with that) or you can switch phones.
As far as the last point, you're asking a developer to put money into developing for a shrinking userbase, or they can put money into developing for a growing platform. Which would you pick?
So I'm an athlete. I train hard for a decade or more. 10 hours a day. 6 days a week.
I get one shot every 4 years. Depending on my sport, i may get just 2 shots, sometimes Im lucky enough to be in a sport that i may get 3, 4 shots at the Olympics.
And you're saying that giving up one of my 2 shots in a lifetime is an easy choice, just snap my fingers. More important to give a middle finger and give up my dream and make that sacrifice almost useless.
This is why athletes go. This is why team management lets the athletes go. Yeah, it's the IOC, but dealing with the IOC is a requirement to be in the Olympics. Necessary evil.
then it wouldn't be the IOC?
Remember the IOC only lanes in London?
So, unified kernel/userspace. minimal error checking. Some error checkign available, but optional.
The Internet of never updated, easily pwn3d things.
A while back, people asked questions bout why you'd use Incognito Mode in a non-pr0n situation. This is one of those reasons.
Also, i didn't notice anything as to WHY people block ads. Namely, i would have liked a "we promise to actively check ads to make sure they don't try to hijack your browser, or set EverCookies". We're not blocking ads to screw you. We're blocking ads to not have you screw us. Address that and then we'll talk.
The obligatory Obligatory XKCD
And, for "real programmers write in....:" The Story of Mel.
I had a friend who made "mass marketing email software". SPAM software. he knew people hated the emails, but needed the cash. He just got married at that time.
There's a guy that tried hard to make a toaster all by himself. went to elements, tried to get to a toaster. He didn't quite get there all by himself. he needed to cut a few corners.
So, a many order of magnitude more complicated object such as a network attached computer.... this argument is interesting in theory. But it's irrelevant in real life. You'll never get a useful machine that you know all that's happening to it.
Emacs would be a hell of an operating system if someone would just write a decent text editor for it.
Not sure how making claims for things that there's no way he can pull off makes him better than any other candidate. In my mind it makes him pretty consistent with many other candidates. Promise the moon and the stars and then backtrack like mad once elected. Yep, pretty much like any other candidate to me
To be honest, Apple is arguably better at this point than Microsoft was at a similar point in it's lifecycle, from a tech standpoint. Rootless MacOSX is a thing. Gatekeeper, though major holes, is a thing. It's just that back then, the Internet was not as much of a source of riches. There's never been a Slammer work for MacOSX. Nor a "I love you" virus.
You know who else had really bad security reputation? Redhat was horrible in the beginning. You know what famous developer doesn't pay enough attention to security? Linus Torvalds.
Not to skewer MS. Not to skewer Linus or Linux. But realize we're comparing relative bad here. The best OS from a security standpoint is just the least horrible OS on a security standpoint.
Security is hard. How do i patch an infinite state machine against people who can make a lot of money breaking it. It's not a trivial task.
I really never understood the anger of someone mad that someone else bought, well any item.
"you're such a _____ fanboi and you buy _____ and you suck (____'s CEO)'s dick!"
Who the hell cares. You buy what you want to buy, If you don't have a mac this doesn't affect you in the least. At least the Linux fanboi's could bitch at MS worms taking enough bandwidth to hurt Internet speeds. Apple Mac market share is small enough (through growing) to not hurt anyone not owning a Mac. This really isn't a true new worm. Anyone getting you to install a new app that partially passes gatekeeper can probably get you to install it and override gatekeeper. It's not that big of a leap.
I honestly feel bad at anyone angry at Apple selling too many computers. Do you need a cookie? Want to talk about it? Did your parents love you enough as a child?
Mayhem. Soap.
anyone able to elaborate on this? My guess would be "if we had all transactions in bitcoin, mining requirements would exceed planetary energy resources" but that's just a guess.