There are 200 and a bit countries in the world that aren't the UK. I wouldn't call a half a percent chance ''obvious''.
It is obvious, because (from the UK) every time I call a service company I am answered by a person with an Indian accent; it might s starts as a strange-sounding pseudo-British accent but it always lapses into a heavy Indian one as the conversation goes on (and gets more heated, because I have little patience with these bastards). Of course, they could be Indians anywhere in the World, like the USA, or Tunbridge Wells, but then you would expect a proportionate sprinkling of other accents too; but no, it's always Indian.
Corporate UK loves employing Indian call centres. Let's start the list with BT
Speaking as someone who has no real skin in the game either way I just don't understand the point of systemd or what benefit it gives me as a user who has a Linux server to run some basic services...
They say it boots quicker. So when you or I have to reboot (as I do about once every 3 months) we won't have time to arrange our chair nicely while it boots. That's it, I think.
Sounds to me like there's a pathway to make [Gnome and KDE] both work without systemd then, even if it requires looking at what might be unique about the BSD port.
I am using KDE on Devuan beta and the only thing I have noticed that does not work in KDE (and does not even exist as an option) is a suspend mode. I can still suspend from a root command line though with pm-suspend
It also has an absurdly high cost of living........, and (not being a Londoner or UKer I'm speculating) many people who work there probably don't live near a public transit station.
Yes, you are speculating.
The cost of living in the London suburbs is not greatly different from elsewhere in the UK. Of course, there is huge variation between desirable areas and grotty areas - both in London and the UK generally. And the vast majority of people who live in the Greater London area do in fact live "near a public transit station"; say 10 minutes walk from a railway station or less to a bus stop.
Have you ever actually tried to get around London without getting stuck in a bottleneck somewhere? Hardly a bastion of transportation efficiency.
I think you missed the point. London has a very good transport system for getting you beween points including the centre and the suburbs : a system of several railways incuding the Underground , the Overground and others. I worked in central London, commuting from the suburbs, for 15 years and only once ever drove into the centre (to collect a heavy office item). Only idiots drive in London regularly.
Sakurai revealed that the Twin Famicom testbed they were using "didn't even have keyboard support, meaning values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard
Like certian modern devices you mean?
What modern device has no options for a keyboard, and uses an onscreen keyboard with a trackball?
Sakurai revealed that the Twin Famicom testbed they were using "didn't even have keyboard support, meaning values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard
I'm seriously curious - what the hell is my data worth? I went online yesterday - bought BBQ sauce. I've been buying BBQ from the same place for the past 20 years (mail order in the days before the interwebs). I've probably been buying it at the same rate for the past 20 years. What is that data worth to someone?
Thanks for that info on your buying habits. I've just sold it to Unroll.me, got quite a bit for it too.
"It seems obvious: The more we learn about other people, the more we'll come to like them."
Who ever said that? Eventually people get annoying. Except for me.
Why was this modded "Funny" rather than Insightful?
Some people, "people people" you might call them, do like other people the more they learn about them. That's why politicians, for example, and certain other types of "people people" are always trying to thrust themselves into your life with speeches and handshakes etc - because they think you will like them more for it. However I am more likely to vote for a politician who just publishes a list of his proposed policies and STFU.
Other people, including me, tend the more they know about other people the more faults they see and the more irritated and annoyed they are. I don't know any South Sea Islanders and so I have nothing against South Sea Islanders. OTOH I wish my next door neighbour would go to hell, he is an arsehole.
Microsoft is claiming that when customers connect to Office 365 services using a legacy version of Office, "they're not enjoying all that the service has to offer.
"Enjoying" is a bloody funny word to use in the context of office software. If I wanted to spend the value of a subscription to Office 365 on "enjoyment" there are many things I'd choose first : fairground rides or ice-creams for example. A year's subs would even stretch to a hooker.
Your whole company must be in the 1% of the population that uses ALL the features of MS Office. What business are you in? I'm not asking the company, just the industry, since that is really weird.
What you said is a widespread fallacy. No one use all the features of MS Office, but many people use a subset of features that are only available on MS Office.
Perhaps they do, but usually because the features are there and not because they really need them. They are a Microsoft method of locking people in.
I work in an engineering office. All the "office" work on a PC that I and the others do here could be done just as well in Notepad and a stripped-down email app.
I have the same feeling. With some services where I don't care if I lose access if I stop using my Facebook account..... Otherwise I try to sign up directly on the site I'm registering for to use.
Only as long as it remains possible to sign on to sites directly, and not via FB or some equivalent shit hole.
It is already the case with many "popular" websites that you can only join in (I won't say sign up) via FB, Disqus or Google Groups etc.
Of course the engineers on this have thought of all the downsides. But as long as Musk keeps paying them they will go along with the shit until it hits the fan.
I did not know what the IBM number was, but we called them chain printers.
I remember a guy with several big stacks of fan-fold print-out on a barrow, coming through an archway into a courtyard of Imperial College, London, on a windy day. As the wind hit him in the open, the paper un-fan-folded and rose up and to top of the 10-floor surrounding buildings and wrapped over the roof.
In those days, if anything went wrong in a program run then, AFAIR by default, the mainframe did a core dump onto this paper. You knew your program had crashed if you got handed a print-out that was 6 inches thick.
What other consumer- grade OS which can be freely installed by OEMs is there? It's not like the average person on the street is going to bother learning Linux.
The average consumer is in the browser all the time - for webmail, Facebook and porn. The underlying OS makes no difference to them as long as they can see the icon to launch the browser.
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And in any case, what's the difference? An Indian scammer is no different than a Russia or American one.
Wrong. The Indian scammer will be far more polite. And will ask you to do the needful.
The Indian scammer calls you "Sir", a hangover I suppose from the Raj. As in "Sir! I am calling from WIndows. Your computer has a virus SIR!"
There's plenty [of call centres] in Ireland, so go and feck yerself.
From the UK I have never been answered by a call centre operator with an Irish accent. Maybe they serve the USA.
There are 200 and a bit countries in the world that aren't the UK. I wouldn't call a half a percent chance ''obvious''.
It is obvious, because (from the UK) every time I call a service company I am answered by a person with an Indian accent; it might s starts as a strange-sounding pseudo-British accent but it always lapses into a heavy Indian one as the conversation goes on (and gets more heated, because I have little patience with these bastards). Of course, they could be Indians anywhere in the World, like the USA, or Tunbridge Wells, but then you would expect a proportionate sprinkling of other accents too; but no, it's always Indian.
Corporate UK loves employing Indian call centres. Let's start the list with BT
Speaking as someone who has no real skin in the game either way I just don't understand the point of systemd or what benefit it gives me as a user who has a Linux server to run some basic services...
They say it boots quicker. So when you or I have to reboot (as I do about once every 3 months) we won't have time to arrange our chair nicely while it boots. That's it, I think.
Then why transport it as ice at all?
I thought you were going to suggest sending the population of UAE to Antarctica instead. Not a bad idea.
Windows 95 access fault?
It was Windows 3.0 - "Unrecoverable Application Error"
Only RedHat derived distributions or Ubuntu are worth using for any serious work.
Idiot
Sounds to me like there's a pathway to make [Gnome and KDE] both work without systemd then, even if it requires looking at what might be unique about the BSD port.
I am using KDE on Devuan beta and the only thing I have noticed that does not work in KDE (and does not even exist as an option) is a suspend mode. I can still suspend from a root command line though with pm-suspend
AC wrote : .
After reading your homepage, I can see why you gave up.
CustomSolvers2 replied :
?! You mean my main webpage (customsolver.com), my secondary webpage (varocarbas.com) or the description in my profile here?
By your "homepage" I suppose he meant the thing reached by the link marked "homepage" in your comment's header.
It also has an absurdly high cost of living. ......., and (not being a Londoner or UKer I'm speculating) many people who work there probably don't live near a public transit station.
Yes, you are speculating.
The cost of living in the London suburbs is not greatly different from elsewhere in the UK. Of course, there is huge variation between desirable areas and grotty areas - both in London and the UK generally. And the vast majority of people who live in the Greater London area do in fact live "near a public transit station"; say 10 minutes walk from a railway station or less to a bus stop.
Have you ever actually tried to get around London without getting stuck in a bottleneck somewhere? Hardly a bastion of transportation efficiency.
I think you missed the point. London has a very good transport system for getting you beween points including the centre and the suburbs : a system of several railways incuding the Underground , the Overground and others. I worked in central London, commuting from the suburbs, for 15 years and only once ever drove into the centre (to collect a heavy office item). Only idiots drive in London regularly.
Sakurai revealed that the Twin Famicom testbed they were using "didn't even have keyboard support, meaning values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard
Like certian modern devices you mean?
What modern device has no options for a keyboard, and uses an onscreen keyboard with a trackball?
The navigator in my car. I'm certian of it.
Sakurai revealed that the Twin Famicom testbed they were using "didn't even have keyboard support, meaning values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard
Like certian modern devices you mean?
I'm seriously curious - what the hell is my data worth? I went online yesterday - bought BBQ sauce. I've been buying BBQ from the same place for the past 20 years (mail order in the days before the interwebs). I've probably been buying it at the same rate for the past 20 years. What is that data worth to someone?
Thanks for that info on your buying habits. I've just sold it to Unroll.me, got quite a bit for it too.
"It seems obvious: The more we learn about other people, the more we'll come to like them."
Who ever said that? Eventually people get annoying. Except for me.
Why was this modded "Funny" rather than Insightful?
Some people, "people people" you might call them, do like other people the more they learn about them. That's why politicians, for example, and certain other types of "people people" are always trying to thrust themselves into your life with speeches and handshakes etc - because they think you will like them more for it. However I am more likely to vote for a politician who just publishes a list of his proposed policies and STFU.
Other people, including me, tend the more they know about other people the more faults they see and the more irritated and annoyed they are. I don't know any South Sea Islanders and so I have nothing against South Sea Islanders. OTOH I wish my next door neighbour would go to hell, he is an arsehole.
FTFA :
Microsoft is claiming that when customers connect to Office 365 services using a legacy version of Office, "they're not enjoying all that the service has to offer.
"Enjoying" is a bloody funny word to use in the context of office software. If I wanted to spend the value of a subscription to Office 365 on "enjoyment" there are many things I'd choose first : fairground rides or ice-creams for example. A year's subs would even stretch to a hooker.
Your whole company must be in the 1% of the population that uses ALL the features of MS Office. What business are you in? I'm not asking the company, just the industry, since that is really weird.
What you said is a widespread fallacy. No one use all the features of MS Office, but many people use a subset of features that are only available on MS Office.
Perhaps they do, but usually because the features are there and not because they really need them. They are a Microsoft method of locking people in.
I work in an engineering office. All the "office" work on a PC that I and the others do here could be done just as well in Notepad and a stripped-down email app.
Most people think Linus Torvalds is an A-hole. Should we be wary of Linux now?
He is just less of an A-hole than Gates or Jobs was.
Is their attitude somehow embedded in the source?
Yes
I have the same feeling. With some services where I don't care if I lose access if I stop using my Facebook account ..... Otherwise I try to sign up directly on the site I'm registering for to use.
Only as long as it remains possible to sign on to sites directly, and not via FB or some equivalent shit hole.
It is already the case with many "popular" websites that you can only join in (I won't say sign up) via FB, Disqus or Google Groups etc.
Of course the engineers on this have thought of all the downsides. But as long as Musk keeps paying them they will go along with the shit until it hits the fan.
I did not know what the IBM number was, but we called them chain printers.
I remember a guy with several big stacks of fan-fold print-out on a barrow, coming through an archway into a courtyard of Imperial College, London, on a windy day. As the wind hit him in the open, the paper un-fan-folded and rose up and to top of the 10-floor surrounding buildings and wrapped over the roof.
In those days, if anything went wrong in a program run then, AFAIR by default, the mainframe did a core dump onto this paper. You knew your program had crashed if you got handed a print-out that was 6 inches thick.
And unless the terminal building is two miles in diameter, there is a lot of wasted space in the centre.
What other consumer- grade OS which can be freely installed by OEMs is there? It's not like the average person on the street is going to bother learning Linux.
The average consumer is in the browser all the time - for webmail, Facebook and porn. The underlying OS makes no difference to them as long as they can see the icon to launch the browser.
So now we can stop feeling sorry for Africa now? Right? Looks like they are sitting on more land than I thought they had, greedy blighters.