As with any sale this size though, it's usually about the kickbacks.
Or more accurately, it's about cost benefit combined with the fact that Google has a very large education ecosystem. My wife works at an Apple school. Macbooks and iPads all round... All powered by Google's Classroom set of educational suites.
If they went to tender right now Chromebooks would almost certainly win.
What good is that kernel if it is hidden under layers of nonstandard UI
Some would say "ideal". If you at any point need to see or interact with your kernel in any way or even get within reach of some of its layers of abstraction then you have really fouled up the entire OS design.
Also what is non-standard about Chromebook's UI? They seem quite consistent across devices to me.
Also, the higher interest rates kept housing prices down
Higher interest rates keep housing prices down. They do not lower the housing prices without dramatically affecting those people already in debt to banks. i.e. the lower-middle class.
Sure house prices may drop, but that will be a small consolation to the newly minted homeless.
Instead it found that people that CLAIMED to eat more organic food
That is not a major problem. Sample sizes take care of pathological liars, as do the basis of studies that have no significant impact on the person being studied. I.e. you're not being judged. They aren't asking you to list your sexual fetishes in decreasing order of preference.
Second the availability of organic food is almost non-existent for the poor.
Completely irrelevant given the findings that were made: Correlation between consumption of organic food and cancer rate. They did not claim one causes the other.
I am willing to bet that people that claimed to eat organic food also had much better living conditions in general.
You don't need to bet. The study asked: Higher organic food scores were positively associated with female sex, high occupational status or monthly income per household unit, postsecondary graduate educational level, physical activity, and former smoking status (Table 1)
Studies of this type are good only to convince people to fund a REAL study
The study was real. The problem is that people who comment on it appear quite likely to be idiots, more concerned about commenting and poopooing a study than actually reading it.
Let me stop you there. They didn't need to control anything. They did a study and made a conclusion based on the study. The finding was: "In a population-based cohort study of 68946 French adults, a significant reduction in the risk of cancer was observed among high consumers of organic food."
That's it. They don't need to control for any other factors to reach this claim. They make no causal claim between the food and the cancer. They do give a couple of possible explanations along with the caveat that when correcting for subgroups they lack statistical significance.
But since you asked: Higher organic food scores were positively associated with female sex, high occupational status or monthly income per household unit, postsecondary graduate educational level, physical activity, and former smoking status (Table 1). Higher organic food scores were also associated with a higher mPNNS-GS. Dietary characteristics by organic food score quartiles are summarized in eTable 7 in the Supplement. Higher organic food scores were associated with a healthier diet rich in fiber, vegetable proteins, and micronutrients. Higher organic food scores were also associated with higher intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes and with lower intake of processed meat, other meat, poultry, and milk.
So yes it would appear that scientists actually know what they are doing, just the people discussing and reporting on science don't.
are only done by complete and utter amateurs with no experience.
Idiots, maybe. Reckless people, definitely. But calling the person whose code has for many years now underpinned core functionality of multiple distributions "amateur with no experience" is a self defeating insult.
when rewriting code for no good reason either then wanting to
You left out the bit where various distributions have been attempting to replace sysvinit with something workable for years due to its technical limitations.
This goes for any project, not just SystemD, not just Wayland or any of the "next-generation"projects... all reincarnations of software should take into the account of the previous implementations bugs
And yet we are discussing a bug that is due to functionality that doesn't exist in other implementations. It's easy to criticise repeating mistakes of the past until you look closely and realise that quite often the mistakes of the past weren't repeated, but rather implemented in a completely different way under a different scenario.
This is what happens when you reinvent everything you possible can
New software has bugs? ZOMG someone stop the presses, we need to tell EVERYONE.
just 'cuz'
just 'cuz' the old init system didn't meet the requirements set out by a modern OS and there have been no less than 15 other projects attempting to replace it already. But hey, one of them gained traction, so let's pick on that one.
What do you call noon? You talking the time when the sun is at its apex? Large portions of the world's populations don't feature this in their current time, not in summer, nor in winter if they actually change their clocks.
If you want a reference, get a mechanical or electrical wristwatch and throw your sundial away.
If you're going to come across so strong and authoritative it would help if you were actually right. Have some knowledge:
GMT is a reference timezone linked to mean solar time. GMT does not have any daylight savings time. The UK does not use GMT, they use British Standard Time (BST) which includes Daylight savings (UTC+0 and UTC+1) depending on the time of the year. Despite the UK's standard time not being linked to GMT directly, some countries legally do reference GMT as their reference timezones. In the English language generally when not speaking scientifically then GMT and UTC are synonymous. https://en.oxforddictionaries....
The topic is irrelevant. Children do not have any rights enumerated in the Charter of rights that overrule their parents raising them.
And what exactly has the voting age to do with sexual freedom?
You tell me. The two documents you cite list the right to vote as a fundamental right, yet they do not apply to minors. I am merely pointing out that the document you hold up so high and mighty is not universally applicable.
So you agree you can't live without dongles because USB-C isn't universal. Thanks for making my point for me. Honestly I don't know why I expected a clever response from you, but you manage to dig yourself in a hole every single time.
Cool story. Hey can you copy this off my memory stick? Oh what? Everyone needs to embrace your thing now? What about my perfectly functioning hardware? Yeah just bin it like a good consumer.
I have embraced USB-C in the only sane way. My laptop has USB-C and USB-A. My desktop has USB-C and USB-A. Defending the removal of the most widely used accessory port in the world is frankly indefensible and you should feel bad for defending the action.
More like stark realisation. I mean it wasn't long ago where Apple were at the absolute forefront of hardware (their refusal to adopt OLED not withstanding). However these days it seems to be more about gimmicks.
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As with any sale this size though, it's usually about the kickbacks.
Or more accurately, it's about cost benefit combined with the fact that Google has a very large education ecosystem. My wife works at an Apple school. Macbooks and iPads all round... All powered by Google's Classroom set of educational suites.
If they went to tender right now Chromebooks would almost certainly win.
What good is that kernel if it is hidden under layers of nonstandard UI
Some would say "ideal". If you at any point need to see or interact with your kernel in any way or even get within reach of some of its layers of abstraction then you have really fouled up the entire OS design.
Also what is non-standard about Chromebook's UI? They seem quite consistent across devices to me.
Also, the higher interest rates kept housing prices down
Higher interest rates keep housing prices down. They do not lower the housing prices without dramatically affecting those people already in debt to banks. i.e. the lower-middle class.
Sure house prices may drop, but that will be a small consolation to the newly minted homeless.
Or just raise interest rates
An action that disproportionately affects the lower-middle class mortgage owners while doing very little to actually fix the housing problem.
Instead it found that people that CLAIMED to eat more organic food
That is not a major problem. Sample sizes take care of pathological liars, as do the basis of studies that have no significant impact on the person being studied. I.e. you're not being judged. They aren't asking you to list your sexual fetishes in decreasing order of preference.
Second the availability of organic food is almost non-existent for the poor.
Completely irrelevant given the findings that were made: Correlation between consumption of organic food and cancer rate. They did not claim one causes the other.
I am willing to bet that people that claimed to eat organic food also had much better living conditions in general.
You don't need to bet. The study asked:
Higher organic food scores were positively associated with female sex, high occupational status or monthly income per household unit, postsecondary graduate educational level, physical activity, and former smoking status (Table 1)
Studies of this type are good only to convince people to fund a REAL study
The study was real. The problem is that people who comment on it appear quite likely to be idiots, more concerned about commenting and poopooing a study than actually reading it.
Specifically c) they found when attempting to control for subgroups their study was too small and lacked statistical significance.
Did they control for
Let me stop you there. They didn't need to control anything. They did a study and made a conclusion based on the study. The finding was: "In a population-based cohort study of 68946 French adults, a significant reduction in the risk of cancer was observed among high consumers of organic food."
That's it. They don't need to control for any other factors to reach this claim. They make no causal claim between the food and the cancer. They do give a couple of possible explanations along with the caveat that when correcting for subgroups they lack statistical significance.
But since you asked:
Higher organic food scores were positively associated with female sex, high occupational status or monthly income per household unit, postsecondary graduate educational level, physical activity, and former smoking status (Table 1). Higher organic food scores were also associated with a higher mPNNS-GS. Dietary characteristics by organic food score quartiles are summarized in eTable 7 in the Supplement. Higher organic food scores were associated with a healthier diet rich in fiber, vegetable proteins, and micronutrients. Higher organic food scores were also associated with higher intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes and with lower intake of processed meat, other meat, poultry, and milk.
So yes it would appear that scientists actually know what they are doing, just the people discussing and reporting on science don't.
Or just run apt update && apt upgrade. You know bug fixes have been done to avoid all of this.
Slackware does not use systemd and therefore is not affected by this vulnerability.
Ubuntu uses systemd and like all other reasonable distributions patched the bug straight away and is therefore not affected by this vulnerability.
are only done by complete and utter amateurs with no experience.
Idiots, maybe. Reckless people, definitely. But calling the person whose code has for many years now underpinned core functionality of multiple distributions "amateur with no experience" is a self defeating insult.
when rewriting code for no good reason either then wanting to
You left out the bit where various distributions have been attempting to replace sysvinit with something workable for years due to its technical limitations.
This goes for any project, not just SystemD, not just Wayland or any of the "next-generation"projects... all reincarnations of software should take into the account of the previous implementations bugs
And yet we are discussing a bug that is due to functionality that doesn't exist in other implementations. It's easy to criticise repeating mistakes of the past until you look closely and realise that quite often the mistakes of the past weren't repeated, but rather implemented in a completely different way under a different scenario.
This is what happens when you reinvent everything you possible can
New software has bugs? ZOMG someone stop the presses, we need to tell EVERYONE.
just 'cuz'
just 'cuz' the old init system didn't meet the requirements set out by a modern OS and there have been no less than 15 other projects attempting to replace it already. But hey, one of them gained traction, so let's pick on that one.
but at least if you keep noon at 12
What do you call noon? You talking the time when the sun is at its apex? Large portions of the world's populations don't feature this in their current time, not in summer, nor in winter if they actually change their clocks.
If you want a reference, get a mechanical or electrical wristwatch and throw your sundial away.
If you're going to come across so strong and authoritative it would help if you were actually right. Have some knowledge:
GMT is a reference timezone linked to mean solar time.
GMT does not have any daylight savings time.
The UK does not use GMT, they use British Standard Time (BST) which includes Daylight savings (UTC+0 and UTC+1) depending on the time of the year.
Despite the UK's standard time not being linked to GMT directly, some countries legally do reference GMT as their reference timezones.
In the English language generally when not speaking scientifically then GMT and UTC are synonymous. https://en.oxforddictionaries....
Yeah, who cares if their kids are waiting for the bus in pitch black?
Is that a question? The answer is very few people.
If you have a specific need for daylight, schedule appropriately.
I tried, but the bank manager refused to open the bank just for me.
no, nothing is worth that
Big talk for an internet toughguy. I bet you wouldn't quit your job because your employer provides Windows workstations.
The topic was about sex.
The topic is irrelevant. Children do not have any rights enumerated in the Charter of rights that overrule their parents raising them.
And what exactly has the voting age to do with sexual freedom?
You tell me. The two documents you cite list the right to vote as a fundamental right, yet they do not apply to minors. I am merely pointing out that the document you hold up so high and mighty is not universally applicable.
How many times can Apple go to the well with that horseshit?
As many times as its fans will have a splooge moment hearing about it.
Yes exactly my point. They've gone from innovative to meh.
Seriously what's wrong with you today? You and I never agree on anything but right now we're like synchronised on a higher level.
So you agree you can't live without dongles because USB-C isn't universal. Thanks for making my point for me. Honestly I don't know why I expected a clever response from you, but you manage to dig yourself in a hole every single time.
he didn't accuse them of bias, he dropped the question, "Total bias?"
Oh wow. You don't understand Trumpspeak.
USB-C is really nice if you embrace it.
Cool story. Hey can you copy this off my memory stick? Oh what? Everyone needs to embrace your thing now? What about my perfectly functioning hardware? Yeah just bin it like a good consumer.
I have embraced USB-C in the only sane way. My laptop has USB-C and USB-A. My desktop has USB-C and USB-A. Defending the removal of the most widely used accessory port in the world is frankly indefensible and you should feel bad for defending the action.
They haven't lost their way at all.
Horseshit. They way of making money used to be revolutionary. Now they are just screwing people.
Or false choice, clickbait, flamebait?
More like stark realisation. I mean it wasn't long ago where Apple were at the absolute forefront of hardware (their refusal to adopt OLED not withstanding). However these days it seems to be more about gimmicks.