There is a ton of applications on Linux that all do not have these problems.
Often helped by dist maintainers carefully testing and crafting dependency trees, or developers turning to containerised formats. Don't confuse the ease of how you're installing software for a specific distribution with the effort involved in generically installing something.
When the options aren't apt, yum, docker, or snap, software on Linux can be a clusterfuck.
That said, I'm sure if Adobe were to adopt Linux as a platform for photoshop everyone would be falling over themselves to help them. Dropbox's excuse here is poor in general.
I thought Slashdot of all places would be free of the old Microsoft FUD from the 90s
It wasn't FUD in the 90s. However in the days of Docker, Snap, FUSE, and other abstractions that bundle libraries and dependencies it most certainly is FUD now.
fopen() will still work, regardless, surely... no?
If you think that what these syncing solutions require only fopen() then you haven't looked at them very closely. That said I think their reasons for lack of support is a load of garbage too.
The word 'almost' means she wasn't tailgating, idiot.
The words are on the page meaning she's bitching to the media about it, ergo she's an idiot who doesn't realise how in the wrong she is, fluffernutter*.
What it means is that these cars are doing things that are scary for other drivers.
If people are scared by a car stopping in front of them then they are idiots who shouldn't be driving.
*I was going to call you idiot back but given your past posting just saying your name is just as effective.
I didn't say don't let idiots drive. I said idiots shouldn't complain. If I nearly hit a car because it suddenly stopped then I need to do some inner reflection rather than bitching at the media.
But surely you aren't claiming that we should all be able to erratically stop for no reason whenever we want on any public road
Yes I am claiming this 100% and the law will claim it too. If you hit the car in front for whatever reason, even if that car just randomly slams on their brakes you're at fault because you were driving too close to react to a change in conditions.
Unexpected things are dangerous. Today it's a self driving car. Tomorrow it's someone having a seizure, the day after it's some kid who runs out on the road.
Shouldn't the network card of my PC be handling that?
Handing over every task to a saturated bus worked well when the bus was far larger than the data requests across it. Intel has quite a poor PCI-E implementation given the modern world where every device wants to put gigabits down the bus. I can understand why they want to bring stuff into the processor.
My work laptop is dog slow with a clean load of Windows.
That's due to all the software your workplace loads on it to make it "faster". Personally my 4 year old work laptop runs like a champ on Windows and Linux.
Easy explanation: You're running wifi on a laptop, therefore you're not providing datacentre services, timesharing VMs or permanent internet connections from systems with a stable memory map and a lucrative target worthy of a complicated attack. You should focus on Windows zero days, Acrobat bugs, and not executing malware from porn sites.
Or you could fear Spectre and Meltdown, in which case may I also recommend meteorite strike insurance? I mean let's face it, there's a risk you could be downed by a space rock at any moment and you should be prepared!
A problem in itself for a few economic and technical reasons. For example:
Economic: You're underloading infrastructure that has already been paid for. That cost is sunk, the maintenance fees are unchanging depending on load. But one of the customers is now not paying the expected share of costs for this infrastructure which was originally provided.
Technical: And this is something a lot of people don't realise, the infrastructure can't handle backfeeding for the most case. Transformers need to be designed for symmetrical power distribution and most of the ones used around the world were not. This isn't an issue when one person has a solar panel, or two people have a solar panel, but it becomes a big problem in places such as Australia where 1/3rd of houses now have rooftop solar. On any given street you may end up backfeeding your local stepdown transformer. In any given richer suburb you may end up back feeding the substation distribution transformer. A LOT of money has been spent on infrastructure since the introduction of solar for this reason, trying to prevent transformers catching fire.
How do you expect to explain to people that they don't have enough IDs?
Jokes aside, no it doesn't it's actually quite easy.
Fucking lookup tables
Yep that's the easiest way. Normally you just tell people the ID rules: I need one of any of these, and two of any of these. Or none of these, and 3 of these. It's really very very simple.
You were quipping with lookup tables, but often that's precisely what you get given:-)
Obama did little to end the wars or NSA spying, but he expanded drone killings, massively added to the federal debt, handed vast amounts of money to Wall St and corporations, caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, and saddled us with healthcare reform that by its own architects was unworkable.
It is quite funny seeing people complain about Obama not achieving all the things that he couldn't get passed through Congress despite actually staying true to his promise.
Obama tried to end the war, congress got in the way. Obama tried to close gitmo, congress got in the way. Federal debt spiked but hardly as the result of anyone in government, as all over the world they pulled all stops to limit the damage from fucking huge economic mess that unfolded, your American jobs likewise. As for the healthcare reforms, I find it cute that you don't realise *why* it's own architects say it's unworkable. Hint: The abomination that finally appeased congress was nothing at all what was architected or proposed. Hell the GOP made no secret at all in their attempt to turn it to garbage if they couldn't kill it.
But sure, yep, all Obama's fault! GO TRUMP! Toot toot.
What they fail to understand is that people do not buy a phone BECAUSE of Touchwiz, they buy it IN SPITE of have Touchwiz.
While you point at Touchwiz you're really talking about buying a lexus and then complaining that the glove-compartment is a bit difficult to open. The special sauce goes far beyond their shitty home screen and any idiot happily replaces those with one of the many that are found in the app store. It's one of the primary reasons I can't get excited about Android OS upgrades. Oooooh Oreo came out with feature X. Hurrah.... My phone already did X.
but in my experience people are far happier with "real" Android. This is why the Pixel sells. This was why the Nexus phones were successful
Both of those were quite solid phones. On the other hand the several Play editions of Galaxy series phones were a huge flop with the vast majority of people looking at the feature list between them with their vanilla Android and comparing it with the feature list of the normal Galaxy next to it and wondering why anyone would buy less for the same money.
Mind you... software quality rarely is written on the feature list.
If nerds had such influence, then Linux would have gotten more power in the desktop and Windows 10 would have failed.
False. Nerds have plenty of influence when the decision is mostly irrelevant to the end user.
Q: Which phone should I buy? A: Apple if you like Apple devices, ${Vendor} if you like Android. They all do mostly the same. Thanks mate!
Q: Which OS should I use? A: Linux! You'll need to learn everything new, many people won't help you, you need all new software, you need to rethink how your files are stored and the interfaces range from the unstable to the unusable from a simplicity point of view but you'll be fine, honest! WTF Are you on drugs again?
All they need to do is exactly what google did, drive around with a car with cameras mounted on top, focus on the money making bits first and don't be M$
Except MS did and does do exactly like Google does and there are Bing cars mapping everywhere. But let's all play this game:
All they need to do is be like MS and contribute to Linux and don't be Google who are funding defence projects to kill people with AI. All they need to do is be like Ford and produce good cars and don't be like Tesla who sell cars that get government subsidies.
See how stupid that sounds when you pick a good example and a bad example?
Who else can we do? All they need to do is be like MS who produced a whole new form factor and not like Apple who can't make a keyboard which works. All they need to do is be like Facebook and create a platform people like and not like the NSAwhich is spying on you.
That's a fancy way of saying they pay you for the electricity your solar generates.
It's a fancy way of saying they pay you retail prices for the electricity you generate all the while also giving you bonus payments for infrastructure you don't support. As much as I don't like paying more, or being paid less, the idea of net metering when you're generating power is not sustainable in the long term. You can't pay people more money to generate than the power companies and then expect the power company to also support you with infrastructure too.
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Intelligence is knowing that the tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.
Charisma is selling someone a tomato salad.
There is a ton of applications on Linux that all do not have these problems.
Often helped by dist maintainers carefully testing and crafting dependency trees, or developers turning to containerised formats. Don't confuse the ease of how you're installing software for a specific distribution with the effort involved in generically installing something.
When the options aren't apt, yum, docker, or snap, software on Linux can be a clusterfuck.
That said, I'm sure if Adobe were to adopt Linux as a platform for photoshop everyone would be falling over themselves to help them. Dropbox's excuse here is poor in general.
I thought Slashdot of all places would be free of the old Microsoft FUD from the 90s
It wasn't FUD in the 90s. However in the days of Docker, Snap, FUSE, and other abstractions that bundle libraries and dependencies it most certainly is FUD now.
fopen() will still work, regardless, surely... no?
If you think that what these syncing solutions require only fopen() then you haven't looked at them very closely.
That said I think their reasons for lack of support is a load of garbage too.
She didn't hit it, ergo she wasn't tailgating.
So what you're saying it's a non-event that should never have been written down as words. But it was written down so everyone involved is an idiot.
The word 'almost' means she wasn't tailgating, idiot.
The words are on the page meaning she's bitching to the media about it, ergo she's an idiot who doesn't realise how in the wrong she is, fluffernutter*.
What it means is that these cars are doing things that are scary for other drivers.
If people are scared by a car stopping in front of them then they are idiots who shouldn't be driving.
*I was going to call you idiot back but given your past posting just saying your name is just as effective.
I didn't say don't let idiots drive. I said idiots shouldn't complain. If I nearly hit a car because it suddenly stopped then I need to do some inner reflection rather than bitching at the media.
A ticket? I got ARRESTED because i slowed down at a light and the car behind the car behind me ran into the car behind me, knocking it into me.
Bullshit.
But surely you aren't claiming that we should all be able to erratically stop for no reason whenever we want on any public road
Yes I am claiming this 100% and the law will claim it too. If you hit the car in front for whatever reason, even if that car just randomly slams on their brakes you're at fault because you were driving too close to react to a change in conditions.
Unexpected things are dangerous. Today it's a self driving car. Tomorrow it's someone having a seizure, the day after it's some kid who runs out on the road.
Shouldn't the network card of my PC be handling that?
Handing over every task to a saturated bus worked well when the bus was far larger than the data requests across it. Intel has quite a poor PCI-E implementation given the modern world where every device wants to put gigabits down the bus. I can understand why they want to bring stuff into the processor.
My work laptop is dog slow with a clean load of Windows.
That's due to all the software your workplace loads on it to make it "faster". Personally my 4 year old work laptop runs like a champ on Windows and Linux.
huh... what ?
Easy explanation: You're running wifi on a laptop, therefore you're not providing datacentre services, timesharing VMs or permanent internet connections from systems with a stable memory map and a lucrative target worthy of a complicated attack. You should focus on Windows zero days, Acrobat bugs, and not executing malware from porn sites.
Or you could fear Spectre and Meltdown, in which case may I also recommend meteorite strike insurance? I mean let's face it, there's a risk you could be downed by a space rock at any moment and you should be prepared!
you're taking load off of their infrastructure
A problem in itself for a few economic and technical reasons. For example:
Economic: You're underloading infrastructure that has already been paid for. That cost is sunk, the maintenance fees are unchanging depending on load. But one of the customers is now not paying the expected share of costs for this infrastructure which was originally provided.
Technical: And this is something a lot of people don't realise, the infrastructure can't handle backfeeding for the most case. Transformers need to be designed for symmetrical power distribution and most of the ones used around the world were not. This isn't an issue when one person has a solar panel, or two people have a solar panel, but it becomes a big problem in places such as Australia where 1/3rd of houses now have rooftop solar. On any given street you may end up backfeeding your local stepdown transformer. In any given richer suburb you may end up back feeding the substation distribution transformer. A LOT of money has been spent on infrastructure since the introduction of solar for this reason, trying to prevent transformers catching fire.
How do you expect to explain to people that they don't have enough IDs?
Jokes aside, no it doesn't it's actually quite easy.
Fucking lookup tables
Yep that's the easiest way. Normally you just tell people the ID rules: I need one of any of these, and two of any of these. Or none of these, and 3 of these. It's really very very simple.
You were quipping with lookup tables, but often that's precisely what you get given :-)
One woman claimed that she almost hit a Waymo vehicle as it suddenly stopped
Then don't tailgate. Idiot.
There's a difference. Nixon famously recorded himself. Trump famously gets recorded by everyone covering their own arse when around him.
Obama did little to end the wars or NSA spying, but he expanded drone killings, massively added to the federal debt, handed vast amounts of money to Wall St and corporations, caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs, and saddled us with healthcare reform that by its own architects was unworkable.
It is quite funny seeing people complain about Obama not achieving all the things that he couldn't get passed through Congress despite actually staying true to his promise.
Obama tried to end the war, congress got in the way. Obama tried to close gitmo, congress got in the way. Federal debt spiked but hardly as the result of anyone in government, as all over the world they pulled all stops to limit the damage from fucking huge economic mess that unfolded, your American jobs likewise. As for the healthcare reforms, I find it cute that you don't realise *why* it's own architects say it's unworkable. Hint: The abomination that finally appeased congress was nothing at all what was architected or proposed. Hell the GOP made no secret at all in their attempt to turn it to garbage if they couldn't kill it.
But sure, yep, all Obama's fault! GO TRUMP! Toot toot.
What they fail to understand is that people do not buy a phone BECAUSE of Touchwiz, they buy it IN SPITE of have Touchwiz.
While you point at Touchwiz you're really talking about buying a lexus and then complaining that the glove-compartment is a bit difficult to open. The special sauce goes far beyond their shitty home screen and any idiot happily replaces those with one of the many that are found in the app store. It's one of the primary reasons I can't get excited about Android OS upgrades. Oooooh Oreo came out with feature X. Hurrah.... My phone already did X.
but in my experience people are far happier with "real" Android. This is why the Pixel sells. This was why the Nexus phones were successful
Both of those were quite solid phones. On the other hand the several Play editions of Galaxy series phones were a huge flop with the vast majority of people looking at the feature list between them with their vanilla Android and comparing it with the feature list of the normal Galaxy next to it and wondering why anyone would buy less for the same money.
Mind you... software quality rarely is written on the feature list.
If nerds had such influence, then Linux would have gotten more power in the desktop and Windows 10 would have failed.
False. Nerds have plenty of influence when the decision is mostly irrelevant to the end user.
Q: Which phone should I buy?
A: Apple if you like Apple devices, ${Vendor} if you like Android. They all do mostly the same.
Thanks mate!
Q: Which OS should I use?
A: Linux! You'll need to learn everything new, many people won't help you, you need all new software, you need to rethink how your files are stored and the interfaces range from the unstable to the unusable from a simplicity point of view but you'll be fine, honest!
WTF Are you on drugs again?
Does anyone know how much power it provided while it was in service?
Probably as much in its life as a nuclear power plant in one day.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. Nothing more.
All they need to do is exactly what google did, drive around with a car with cameras mounted on top, focus on the money making bits first and don't be M$
Except MS did and does do exactly like Google does and there are Bing cars mapping everywhere. But let's all play this game:
All they need to do is be like MS and contribute to Linux and don't be Google who are funding defence projects to kill people with AI.
All they need to do is be like Ford and produce good cars and don't be like Tesla who sell cars that get government subsidies.
See how stupid that sounds when you pick a good example and a bad example?
Who else can we do?
All they need to do is be like MS who produced a whole new form factor and not like Apple who can't make a keyboard which works.
All they need to do is be like Facebook and create a platform people like and not like the NSAwhich is spying on you.
Okay I'm done now.
That's a fancy way of saying they pay you for the electricity your solar generates.
It's a fancy way of saying they pay you retail prices for the electricity you generate all the while also giving you bonus payments for infrastructure you don't support. As much as I don't like paying more, or being paid less, the idea of net metering when you're generating power is not sustainable in the long term. You can't pay people more money to generate than the power companies and then expect the power company to also support you with infrastructure too.
Lets blame CPU hardware bugs, which we cannot do anything about, for our inability to secure our own software.
You do realise it's about securing other people's software right?
Gun culture is about advocating and practicing responsibility and safety.
Gun culture is whatever either says says it is. Unfortunately one side has some statistics behind it rather than just some nice sounding words.