I didn't retract anything. I'm saying that it's a walled garden, and you're argument that it's not a walled garden because it can be circumvented by a decent portion of slashdot is utter bullshit, because slashdot doesn't represent the general public, and a decent portion of slashdot can circumvent many things (like DRM, for example) with far less difficulty.
Wikipedia defines a walled garden as "a software system where the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applications or content." It also lists iOS as an example of a walled garden. Compiling excludes convenient by definition.
The audience of slashdot is simply "technology nerds," which is a significantly different demographic than programmers, let alone Objective-C programmers. Even assuming that the/. audience was primarily programmers, a competent programmer is not necessarily a competent QA tester, or competent at design, or doing the entire process themselves. Now, granted, a lot of apps are little more than glorified websites in their scope, but if you want anything past significantly past that, you do need a much more diverse skill set.
Yes, you would need a computer. A computer that is one of the following architectures: IA-32, x86-64, IA-64, PA-RISC; PowerPC 32/64, SPARC 64-bit, DEC Alpha, ARM, Motorola 68K. As opposed to an x86-64 computer that was manufactured by Apple, or one More importantly, "install gentoo" was troll advice, similar to "delete system 32," because the task was needlessly cumbersome and complex for the needs of the overwhelming majority of users.
You are bitching about compiling your own software being no big deal, and you don't even know what a repo is? Adding another repo is adding another source to download software packages from, thus allowing you to escape your distro's "walled garden." That is basically what your convoluted process entails (and what jailbreaking, a much more accessible process, did). On most operating systems with packaging systems, it's typically one or two commands, plus the command to install the specific software you want.
It's six inches high for someone who is already an iOS dev. For the average iPhone user, it might as well be six hundred feet high. I'm sorry, but I've spent years hearing people whine endlessly at the mere possibility of having to compile something on Linux, and you are now claiming that writing and compiling your own software is only a minor barrier?
A pretty low bar for something that would basically be covered by "add another repo" if end users had actual control? "Install gentoo" is arguably a lower bar.
Well, he has been dead for decades, so he's pretty quiet. I also suspect that, were he questioned on the subject while alive, he would say that work would be where you focus on self-actualization.
Both terms are largely in terms of funding. If you are funded by something other than our media oligoply, you get painted as fake news. If you are part of the oligopoly, you are mainstream media. "MSM" is fairly well defined, as it basically equals media networks of comparable size to News Corporation, and largely coincides with people who make more in a week than the average American does in a year.
Some of us think that Russia engaged in low level phishing attempts against everything during the election, just as they do for every election everywhere, and just about any internet facing server.
Some of us think that the US also does pretty much the same thing, with the same level of power.
Some of us knew both of those things because we've read enough posts on slashdot to have sysadmins repeat this fact at least a hundred times.
The reality is far worse than the fake news of the Russia story. The people undermining our elections are not far away oligarchs. They are domestic oligarchs, which have far more conflicts of interest.
I think you, too, are oversimplifying it. There's also the fact that less power being used on the grid means that supply increases, which should in theory lower price. Granted, there are also going to be some fixed costs, but I believe the bulk of those costs are already on the sources that are more grid dependent.
No, he sys, "who cares if they wanted to influence our elections?" And he's right, this controversy is old hat, and has been happening to every country that had access to the internet for as long as they've had that access. And before that, they used low tech methods.
Speaking realistically though, American oligarchs are far more effective than Russian oligarchs, and the American oligarchs have more conflicts of interest with the American people.
The main reason there's a need for that is because conservatives are scaremongering. The Dems certainly use that as a distraction from more pressing issues, but the GOP makes it somewhat necessary.
I think more resources are being wasted on scaring people that transsexuals are going to rape their daughters in bathrooms or whatever made up threat they use to distract the unwashed masses while they steal money from us.
Are you saying that the US system doesn't produce "evil people that commit crimes and make the world worse?" Because I'm pretty sure the rest of the world disagrees.
No need to go that far. Traditional media will publish anything leak-worthy Trump is doing, at least if it's not just doing the usual establishment filth that has been normalized in those circles.
Yes, because the extreme minority of transsexuals is the deciding factor here, not the fact that America denies basic science and shifts all the money towards useless managers.
Yes, opposition to Clinton ultimately leads to Trump winning because of the structure of our elections, but it's a much more convenient narrative to claim Trump is basically a Manchurian candidate than to claim that Russia hates Clinton, as so did about 2/3 of Americans.
I'll give you a little hint: If you are ANYWHERE NEAR a DC cocktail party, you are corrupt. The "schmoozing that goes on all the time" is not utterly banal, it is a cancer destroying this country.
Except in this case, there was zero probability that the election would reflect the will of the people. The will of the people was for both Trump and Clinton to be as far away from power as possible. I also completely disagree that people should have fake belief in the integrity of elections. Of course, even if Russia were behind the Podesta leaks, that doesn't actually undermine the integrity of our elections, as they were only providing transparency towards a de facto part of the government.
The American people SHOULD be pissed off at our pathetic farce that calls itself a democracy. That might get us to the point where our elections do have integrity, and that would safeguard us against Russian interference a hundred times more than anything Obama did.
They aren't completely untrustworthy (even the most crooked news sources tend to be reliable on a subject or two, but few are trustworthy all around), but their ownership changed, and they've shown themselves as far from being politically neutral since. They famously ran 16 anti-Sanders articles in 16 hours.
Yes, WaPo had established a great deal of credibility. That's what makes buying them so useful to a propagandist.
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No, I want Trump shot into the sun, but at worst, Russia used journalism against America, which is GOOD for the people, albeit bad for the government.
I didn't retract anything. I'm saying that it's a walled garden, and you're argument that it's not a walled garden because it can be circumvented by a decent portion of slashdot is utter bullshit, because slashdot doesn't represent the general public, and a decent portion of slashdot can circumvent many things (like DRM, for example) with far less difficulty.
Wikipedia defines a walled garden as "a software system where the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applications or content." It also lists iOS as an example of a walled garden. Compiling excludes convenient by definition.
The audience of slashdot is simply "technology nerds," which is a significantly different demographic than programmers, let alone Objective-C programmers. Even assuming that the /. audience was primarily programmers, a competent programmer is not necessarily a competent QA tester, or competent at design, or doing the entire process themselves. Now, granted, a lot of apps are little more than glorified websites in their scope, but if you want anything past significantly past that, you do need a much more diverse skill set.
Yes, you would need a computer. A computer that is one of the following architectures: IA-32, x86-64, IA-64, PA-RISC; PowerPC 32/64, SPARC 64-bit, DEC Alpha, ARM, Motorola 68K. As opposed to an x86-64 computer that was manufactured by Apple, or one More importantly, "install gentoo" was troll advice, similar to "delete system 32," because the task was needlessly cumbersome and complex for the needs of the overwhelming majority of users.
You are bitching about compiling your own software being no big deal, and you don't even know what a repo is? Adding another repo is adding another source to download software packages from, thus allowing you to escape your distro's "walled garden." That is basically what your convoluted process entails (and what jailbreaking, a much more accessible process, did). On most operating systems with packaging systems, it's typically one or two commands, plus the command to install the specific software you want.
It's six inches high for someone who is already an iOS dev. For the average iPhone user, it might as well be six hundred feet high. I'm sorry, but I've spent years hearing people whine endlessly at the mere possibility of having to compile something on Linux, and you are now claiming that writing and compiling your own software is only a minor barrier?
A pretty low bar for something that would basically be covered by "add another repo" if end users had actual control? "Install gentoo" is arguably a lower bar.
Well, he has been dead for decades, so he's pretty quiet. I also suspect that, were he questioned on the subject while alive, he would say that work would be where you focus on self-actualization.
Both terms are largely in terms of funding. If you are funded by something other than our media oligoply, you get painted as fake news. If you are part of the oligopoly, you are mainstream media. "MSM" is fairly well defined, as it basically equals media networks of comparable size to News Corporation, and largely coincides with people who make more in a week than the average American does in a year.
Ah yes, security clearance. The age-old refuge of making extraordinary claims without that pesky need to provide extraordinary evidence.
You're basically saying, "that's not a wall, it's a high fence."
Some of us think that Russia engaged in low level phishing attempts against everything during the election, just as they do for every election everywhere, and just about any internet facing server.
Some of us think that the US also does pretty much the same thing, with the same level of power.
Some of us knew both of those things because we've read enough posts on slashdot to have sysadmins repeat this fact at least a hundred times.
The reality is far worse than the fake news of the Russia story. The people undermining our elections are not far away oligarchs. They are domestic oligarchs, which have far more conflicts of interest.
I think you, too, are oversimplifying it. There's also the fact that less power being used on the grid means that supply increases, which should in theory lower price. Granted, there are also going to be some fixed costs, but I believe the bulk of those costs are already on the sources that are more grid dependent.
No, he sys, "who cares if they wanted to influence our elections?" And he's right, this controversy is old hat, and has been happening to every country that had access to the internet for as long as they've had that access. And before that, they used low tech methods.
Speaking realistically though, American oligarchs are far more effective than Russian oligarchs, and the American oligarchs have more conflicts of interest with the American people.
The main reason there's a need for that is because conservatives are scaremongering. The Dems certainly use that as a distraction from more pressing issues, but the GOP makes it somewhat necessary.
I think more resources are being wasted on scaring people that transsexuals are going to rape their daughters in bathrooms or whatever made up threat they use to distract the unwashed masses while they steal money from us.
Are you saying that the US system doesn't produce "evil people that commit crimes and make the world worse?" Because I'm pretty sure the rest of the world disagrees.
No need to go that far. Traditional media will publish anything leak-worthy Trump is doing, at least if it's not just doing the usual establishment filth that has been normalized in those circles.
Probably because the decisions are made via a contractor circlejerk to bring in money instead of anything necessarily involving anyone competent.
Yes, because the extreme minority of transsexuals is the deciding factor here, not the fact that America denies basic science and shifts all the money towards useless managers.
It doesn't explain why Obama couldn't have said anything during say, December, when he was still POTUS, and the election wouldn't have been swayed.
It's probably because being an imbecile (or pretending to be one) is the most profitable career path.
Yes, opposition to Clinton ultimately leads to Trump winning because of the structure of our elections, but it's a much more convenient narrative to claim Trump is basically a Manchurian candidate than to claim that Russia hates Clinton, as so did about 2/3 of Americans.
I'll give you a little hint: If you are ANYWHERE NEAR a DC cocktail party, you are corrupt. The "schmoozing that goes on all the time" is not utterly banal, it is a cancer destroying this country.
Except in this case, there was zero probability that the election would reflect the will of the people. The will of the people was for both Trump and Clinton to be as far away from power as possible. I also completely disagree that people should have fake belief in the integrity of elections. Of course, even if Russia were behind the Podesta leaks, that doesn't actually undermine the integrity of our elections, as they were only providing transparency towards a de facto part of the government.
The American people SHOULD be pissed off at our pathetic farce that calls itself a democracy. That might get us to the point where our elections do have integrity, and that would safeguard us against Russian interference a hundred times more than anything Obama did.
They aren't completely untrustworthy (even the most crooked news sources tend to be reliable on a subject or two, but few are trustworthy all around), but their ownership changed, and they've shown themselves as far from being politically neutral since. They famously ran 16 anti-Sanders articles in 16 hours.
Yes, WaPo had established a great deal of credibility. That's what makes buying them so useful to a propagandist.