The did about the most dumb thing possible: They blamed Linux for their dysfunctional organization. They will have pretty much the same problems after the move with some new ones on top. And the only sane alternative, moving everything to web-apps, was not even considered.
Windows software not working on Linux is a problem that isn't fixed by Windows? Windows users needing to learn a different OS is a problem that isn't fixed by Windows? The solution to 3rd parties not supporting alternate OSes with many bespoke systems is to ask 3rd parties to move to a complete alternate cloud based platform?
What happened here is that the ones in charge let themselves be bought by MS.
No what happened here is that a Slashdot user has no idea about the situation and thus feels qualified to come up with solutions. The other thing that happened is that the same Slashdot user doesn't know how governments work, especially those in Germany. No one was "bought" by MS other than heart of the government on the whole through a large building project that contributed to the local economy and brought an increased number of employees (reads: taxpayers) into the city.
This is something that often gets lost on Slashdot. People are so busy complaining about privacy (which the average user can't give a crap about), or lost work because you haven't saved your work for the night and ignore the notifications that an update is pending (which the average user can't give a crap about), and all the talk about start menus and control panels (which the average user can't give a crap about) to realise what has actually changed under the hood.
In the mean time we have an OS that in its current iteration is incredibly stable (no, not things like the on screen keyboard not popping up, but rather no reboot forcing crashes), relatively well protected (very few attacks go directly for the Windows OS now because of it) and even has similar active protective features to SELinux.
Under the hood it's faster than the previous versions, more capable out of the box, actually works as a tablet OS (not that I imagine most people here will care), and in general end users don't really care much about it, neither for nor against.
Never borrow money unless it's for something you can make money with.
Like a credit card? Seriously are you not using a credit card? You're leaving all sorts of benefits on the table, especially when it costs you literally nothing to own and use one.
See my previous posting on the thread. From what I heard, that protection scheme failed and never became a thing. I have never connected mine to the Internet and it plays everything.
Let me update what you've heard: I have on 4 occasions required an internet connection to get my Blu-ray player to play discs due to AACS keys being revoked.
I really, really wish that gamers (of all people) had not been jumping up and down and begging for Government intervention. Should you boycott games for containing loot box systems? Yes. Should you take to social media and cause as much brand damage as possible? Definitely. But bringing Government into things? Not going to end well...
As a matter of interest when have the former options ever worked? I mean the single shittiest companies in the industry causing these problems ultimately became the most wealthy and far more alarmingly also became the largest corporate consolidators. We've been calling out bullshit DRM for years only to see the problem continue to get progressively worse to the point where you can now buy a game and not go home and play it on release day. We've been calling out pay-to-win for the garbage it is for years only to have that start hitting the news over and over again. We call out companies for providing additional DLC only to see companies provide DLC on day of release, on the disc, and without discounting the original title. We've called out shoddy and buggy garbage on release only to see games get more and more unplayable for an ever increasing duration from release.
Government should exist to exert the collective will of the people. It's not like alternatives haven't been tried, and it's also not like all governments suddenly break out into overreach making crazy decisions of censorship. Americans may not understand because they are used to happily bending over for corporations but in much of the rest of the civilised world governments can be a great tool for the people, not for the corporations.
Are they causing it? Or are they just exploiting a pre-existing condition?
The pre-existing condition people have is endorphins. By carefully training the way they are released through the processes they can be said to be actually "causing" the addiction. There's a lot of psychology involved here.
Not your father's farming, but equally as hard. Actually even harder as the farmer is now not only expected to put in massive effort farming, but along with the technical stuff you mention you need to be a savvy business man, no longer selling goods on a local market but rather signing large scale contracts for goods, often managing staff (to use the term kindly), not to mention juggling service agreements with every bloody vendor attempting to lock you out of their black boxes.
I'll be honest. I don't have what it takes to be a farmer.
You have a glorified view of farming combined with a very bleek view of the office and conflated all that with a lot of completely irrelevant things.
- Open planned offices: Not all that bad. If you need privacy put on some noise cancelling headphones. If you're autistic, don't work in one. On the flip side the social aspect of them is fantastic. - The daily grind: Change jobs. No seriously if you described what you do as a daily grind, CHANGE JOBS. My work is fun, takes me to interesting places to meet interesting people and even when I'm in my open plan office I am greeted with an endless string of interesting and mentally stimulating challenges. - What housing market? If you're living in Silicon Valley, move. You don't need to move to a farm, pretty much everywhere else will do and the housing market is just fine. - Lack of job security? Huh? What industry are you working in?
As for farming: - Bio/Organic trend and not treating animals like crap: Sure, just don't expect to get rich of free ranging everything. Or even make a living, let alone pay off your house properly. But there is a labour aspect involved, like the bio/organic field around the corner from my house which for certification reasons needs to sit completely unused for 3 years. Though I'm not sure the owner of it is laying on a beach on holiday somewhere, rather working an evening job. - New technology reducing labour: Wake up, you're dreaming. There's been no change of labour in farming in the past 100+ years. The only thing that has changed is yield. It doesn't matter how high-tech your farm is, you will be up well before dawn, you will work well after the stars light up the sky. You will be working continuously and all the while managing several {insert nationality here depending on your country} immigrant workers who are helping your farm stay afloat due to all the manual labour involved.
Farming is hard. If people are getting into farming for the reasons you list, they will fail.
That's before you look at the relative merits of living in the city vs the country. Many people from one background are not cut out for the other. That said, I do see plenty try.
Link to study? For something that is "almost none" there seems to be an incredible amount of effort to stack incredibly large shelf space which typically still has a constant stream of people standing in front of it picking from the shelf.
Netflix et al haven't displaced purchases for many people, especially for those who like the idea of watching something they paid for. My Disney movies will still be watchable after next year, good luck with that on Netflix.
2) Disc has best picture quality. - 4K streams are a thing outperforming a great many Bluray titles.
4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet) - They most definitely do in order to continue the cat and mouse game that is bluray encryption. If your bluray player isn't connected to the internet the chances are it will stop playing new discs periodically.
6) Purchased discs gives me the option to save it in varies different formats, resolutions, etc, and use it on any device I like, immediately, with no outside connection. - You're a filthy encryption breaking hacker pirate type stealing from the poor middle men who insist you should buy it once per device, yaaarrrrrrr;-)
7) High-quality video on disc with no impact on network quotas. - Quota? What? I don't understand.
8) Purchased discs give me the option to sell it later, or lend it to family/friends. - Yeah but do you really sell it? I think the person who actually does is some mythical being made up by youtube commentators. Also streaming services provide that lending option too.
The rest of it is pretty much spot on. The thing is also the price of a disk is recurringly cheap as it doesn't typically expire.
The Founding Fathers of the United States firmly believed it was the right and responsibility of every Citizen to stand against tyranny, and gun ownership was a necessary balance as the last step against a corrupt Government.
Yes, except the founding fathers could not predict a future where: a) despite gun ownership the citizens would be annihilated in any conflict against a whole world of superior weapons b) citizens don't care about tyranny at all and are too busy shooting each other to defend themselves from the continuous assault on them by their own governments
Remember the founding fathers were people. Imperfect and fallible.
Ding ding ding ding ding. Congratulations. For you 3 out of 3 you have won our prize of the day: "The illogical fucktard defending 'omg meh guns' award"
To be clear are you comparing copyright violation to mass murder? I mean when we're looking at worst case scenarios for which we enact legislation in a sensible world it would make sense to go after the thing that kills millions of Americans.
Would it kill you (pun intended) to have a bit of consistency in the way you regulate your country?
As a copyright holder, I've been very happy with Agit Pai so far.
On behalf of all of the internet, fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Your assault against the internet and the platform which you should see as an enabler in the name of a few bad apples should be met in kind. I hope you get what you want.
I hope your precious Agit Pai enables mega corporations to stamp on your little copyright. May you be screwed over in more ways than you're proposing to screw the common man. God speed.
I think humans have a very natural fear of the dark. This might explain why outdoor lighting is increasing.
No we don't fear dark. We fear preconceptions. Such as that criminals hide in the dark or that someone may sue is for not providing them light. Very few people are afraid of the dark itself.
Moon? We attend astronomy gatherings regularly. After about an hour you don't need a moon. Start light alone can help you navigate without running into things or even starting from the path.
And you haven't dented the frustration meter? The simple reason has nothing simple in it. It's just that you have an incredible amount of patients. In the mean time the rest of the world relies on uBlock and it's far more automated cross site script blocking along with specific black lists.
No guessing. If something requires guessing it's broken. A plugin that prevents a website from loading is broken. A plugin that "regularly breaks unfamiliar websites"... well sorry but you've just lost the majority of the world there.
I'm not saying there's no place for noscript in the world, there's just absolutely no place for it to be a default.
That makes her the most qualified for the position. I'm only being partially facetious here. Lying just goes with the territory. People expect it and then can judge the truth based on it. The problem with Trump is that I genuinely believe he has no idea when he's lying. That makes him unpredictable.
Nailed it. Felonies should not be a death sentence, but they are.
Nailed something, but the entire thread is highly off topic. These people aren't disqualified for some general felony, they are disqualified for felonies that disqualify them specifically from driving, e.g. DUI. To be perfectly frank if you can't help yourself but driving drunk then you shouldn't be driving at all, let alone driving someone else professionally,.... and I use that term very facetiously.
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The did about the most dumb thing possible: They blamed Linux for their dysfunctional organization. They will have pretty much the same problems after the move with some new ones on top. And the only sane alternative, moving everything to web-apps, was not even considered.
Windows software not working on Linux is a problem that isn't fixed by Windows?
Windows users needing to learn a different OS is a problem that isn't fixed by Windows?
The solution to 3rd parties not supporting alternate OSes with many bespoke systems is to ask 3rd parties to move to a complete alternate cloud based platform?
What happened here is that the ones in charge let themselves be bought by MS.
No what happened here is that a Slashdot user has no idea about the situation and thus feels qualified to come up with solutions.
The other thing that happened is that the same Slashdot user doesn't know how governments work, especially those in Germany. No one was "bought" by MS other than heart of the government on the whole through a large building project that contributed to the local economy and brought an increased number of employees (reads: taxpayers) into the city.
This is something that often gets lost on Slashdot. People are so busy complaining about privacy (which the average user can't give a crap about), or lost work because you haven't saved your work for the night and ignore the notifications that an update is pending (which the average user can't give a crap about), and all the talk about start menus and control panels (which the average user can't give a crap about) to realise what has actually changed under the hood.
In the mean time we have an OS that in its current iteration is incredibly stable (no, not things like the on screen keyboard not popping up, but rather no reboot forcing crashes), relatively well protected (very few attacks go directly for the Windows OS now because of it) and even has similar active protective features to SELinux.
Under the hood it's faster than the previous versions, more capable out of the box, actually works as a tablet OS (not that I imagine most people here will care), and in general end users don't really care much about it, neither for nor against.
Shame about the privacy aspects.
Never borrow money unless it's for something you can make money with.
Like a credit card? Seriously are you not using a credit card? You're leaving all sorts of benefits on the table, especially when it costs you literally nothing to own and use one.
Oh cute, you're assuming the artist gives a shit as opposed to some militant bottom feeding "every streamed copy is a lost sale" middleman.
Not all control is corruption prone either. Speaking of which you don't need corruption to be inefficient.
See my previous posting on the thread. From what I heard, that protection scheme failed and never became a thing. I have never connected mine to the Internet and it plays everything.
Let me update what you've heard: I have on 4 occasions required an internet connection to get my Blu-ray player to play discs due to AACS keys being revoked.
I really, really wish that gamers (of all people) had not been jumping up and down and begging for Government intervention. Should you boycott games for containing loot box systems? Yes. Should you take to social media and cause as much brand damage as possible? Definitely. But bringing Government into things? Not going to end well...
As a matter of interest when have the former options ever worked? I mean the single shittiest companies in the industry causing these problems ultimately became the most wealthy and far more alarmingly also became the largest corporate consolidators. We've been calling out bullshit DRM for years only to see the problem continue to get progressively worse to the point where you can now buy a game and not go home and play it on release day. We've been calling out pay-to-win for the garbage it is for years only to have that start hitting the news over and over again. We call out companies for providing additional DLC only to see companies provide DLC on day of release, on the disc, and without discounting the original title. We've called out shoddy and buggy garbage on release only to see games get more and more unplayable for an ever increasing duration from release.
Government should exist to exert the collective will of the people. It's not like alternatives haven't been tried, and it's also not like all governments suddenly break out into overreach making crazy decisions of censorship. Americans may not understand because they are used to happily bending over for corporations but in much of the rest of the civilised world governments can be a great tool for the people, not for the corporations.
Are they causing it? Or are they just exploiting a pre-existing condition?
The pre-existing condition people have is endorphins. By carefully training the way they are released through the processes they can be said to be actually "causing" the addiction. There's a lot of psychology involved here.
Not your father's farming, but equally as hard. Actually even harder as the farmer is now not only expected to put in massive effort farming, but along with the technical stuff you mention you need to be a savvy business man, no longer selling goods on a local market but rather signing large scale contracts for goods, often managing staff (to use the term kindly), not to mention juggling service agreements with every bloody vendor attempting to lock you out of their black boxes.
I'll be honest. I don't have what it takes to be a farmer.
You have a glorified view of farming combined with a very bleek view of the office and conflated all that with a lot of completely irrelevant things.
- Open planned offices: Not all that bad. If you need privacy put on some noise cancelling headphones. If you're autistic, don't work in one. On the flip side the social aspect of them is fantastic.
- The daily grind: Change jobs. No seriously if you described what you do as a daily grind, CHANGE JOBS. My work is fun, takes me to interesting places to meet interesting people and even when I'm in my open plan office I am greeted with an endless string of interesting and mentally stimulating challenges.
- What housing market? If you're living in Silicon Valley, move. You don't need to move to a farm, pretty much everywhere else will do and the housing market is just fine.
- Lack of job security? Huh? What industry are you working in?
As for farming:
- Bio/Organic trend and not treating animals like crap: Sure, just don't expect to get rich of free ranging everything. Or even make a living, let alone pay off your house properly. But there is a labour aspect involved, like the bio/organic field around the corner from my house which for certification reasons needs to sit completely unused for 3 years. Though I'm not sure the owner of it is laying on a beach on holiday somewhere, rather working an evening job.
- New technology reducing labour: Wake up, you're dreaming. There's been no change of labour in farming in the past 100+ years. The only thing that has changed is yield. It doesn't matter how high-tech your farm is, you will be up well before dawn, you will work well after the stars light up the sky. You will be working continuously and all the while managing several {insert nationality here depending on your country} immigrant workers who are helping your farm stay afloat due to all the manual labour involved.
Farming is hard. If people are getting into farming for the reasons you list, they will fail.
That's before you look at the relative merits of living in the city vs the country. Many people from one background are not cut out for the other. That said, I do see plenty try.
and the answer is "almost none"
Link to study?
For something that is "almost none" there seems to be an incredible amount of effort to stack incredibly large shelf space which typically still has a constant stream of people standing in front of it picking from the shelf.
Netflix et al haven't displaced purchases for many people, especially for those who like the idea of watching something they paid for. My Disney movies will still be watchable after next year, good luck with that on Netflix.
Err you may want to check some of those:
2) Disc has best picture quality.
- 4K streams are a thing outperforming a great many Bluray titles.
4) Disc requires no internet access (which is important to many who have no, limited, slow, or capped Internet)
- They most definitely do in order to continue the cat and mouse game that is bluray encryption. If your bluray player isn't connected to the internet the chances are it will stop playing new discs periodically.
6) Purchased discs gives me the option to save it in varies different formats, resolutions, etc, and use it on any device I like, immediately, with no outside connection. ;-)
- You're a filthy encryption breaking hacker pirate type stealing from the poor middle men who insist you should buy it once per device, yaaarrrrrrr
7) High-quality video on disc with no impact on network quotas.
- Quota? What? I don't understand.
8) Purchased discs give me the option to sell it later, or lend it to family/friends.
- Yeah but do you really sell it? I think the person who actually does is some mythical being made up by youtube commentators. Also streaming services provide that lending option too.
The rest of it is pretty much spot on. The thing is also the price of a disk is recurringly cheap as it doesn't typically expire.
The Founding Fathers of the United States firmly believed it was the right and responsibility of every Citizen to stand against tyranny, and gun ownership was a necessary balance as the last step against a corrupt Government.
Yes, except the founding fathers could not predict a future where:
a) despite gun ownership the citizens would be annihilated in any conflict against a whole world of superior weapons
b) citizens don't care about tyranny at all and are too busy shooting each other to defend themselves from the continuous assault on them by their own governments
Remember the founding fathers were people. Imperfect and fallible.
port 80
What's port 80 used for? The most popular sites and content on the internet go over port 443.
over how many decades?
The "it's not that bad" excuse.
When you subtract suicides
The let's ignore a part of the statistics excuse
and gang bangers gang banging
The lets ignore a large subset of crime award.
Ding ding ding ding ding. Congratulations. For you 3 out of 3 you have won our prize of the day: "The illogical fucktard defending 'omg meh guns' award"
To be clear are you comparing copyright violation to mass murder? I mean when we're looking at worst case scenarios for which we enact legislation in a sensible world it would make sense to go after the thing that kills millions of Americans.
Would it kill you (pun intended) to have a bit of consistency in the way you regulate your country?
As a copyright holder, I've been very happy with Agit Pai so far.
On behalf of all of the internet, fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Your assault against the internet and the platform which you should see as an enabler in the name of a few bad apples should be met in kind. I hope you get what you want.
I hope your precious Agit Pai enables mega corporations to stamp on your little copyright. May you be screwed over in more ways than you're proposing to screw the common man. God speed.
in fact no science. Yawn.
People who deny there is science in studies like this fundamentally don't know how to analyse data.
I think humans have a very natural fear of the dark. This might explain why outdoor lighting is increasing.
No we don't fear dark. We fear preconceptions. Such as that criminals hide in the dark or that someone may sue is for not providing them light. Very few people are afraid of the dark itself.
Moon? We attend astronomy gatherings regularly. After about an hour you don't need a moon. Start light alone can help you navigate without running into things or even starting from the path.
No. I'm sick and tired of closing my laptop for dinner, opening it up an hour later, only to find the goddamned thing has rebooted
If you can't even RTFM and get the most basic of Windows settings right you're not going to be happy with Linux.
Sorry I didn't realise the choice of OS was a battle.
If I can't fix the site in two guesses
And you haven't dented the frustration meter? The simple reason has nothing simple in it. It's just that you have an incredible amount of patients. In the mean time the rest of the world relies on uBlock and it's far more automated cross site script blocking along with specific black lists.
No guessing. If something requires guessing it's broken. A plugin that prevents a website from loading is broken. A plugin that "regularly breaks unfamiliar websites" ... well sorry but you've just lost the majority of the world there.
I'm not saying there's no place for noscript in the world, there's just absolutely no place for it to be a default.
That makes her the most qualified for the position. I'm only being partially facetious here. Lying just goes with the territory. People expect it and then can judge the truth based on it. The problem with Trump is that I genuinely believe he has no idea when he's lying. That makes him unpredictable.
Nailed it. Felonies should not be a death sentence, but they are.
Nailed something, but the entire thread is highly off topic. These people aren't disqualified for some general felony, they are disqualified for felonies that disqualify them specifically from driving, e.g. DUI. To be perfectly frank if you can't help yourself but driving drunk then you shouldn't be driving at all, let alone driving someone else professionally, .... and I use that term very facetiously.