There is a big difference between idiot proof and not having drivers for common name brand hardware.
It would be more like purchasing a GMC truck to haul a trailer but finding out the truck would have to modified because the required hitch is only made to fit ford F-Series trucks.
Ubuntu and similar Linux distros are definitely ready for the masses.
I disagree, they are almost ready, and it's not the code base that's the problem it's more the relationship with manufactures. When every manufacture starts making sure there are working drivers for their hardware at launch like they do for windows then it will be fully ready.
I've used linux off and on since the early 90s and it's always the same problem some manufacture don't care if their consumer stuff doesn't work with linux so either you wait for someone capable of writing drivers to take interest or write them yourself. Otherwise it's a good stable system and if you purchase your hardware with linux in mind then it works out great.
My not so tech savvy brother had me build a pc for him. He decided to go for Ubuntu instead of windows because his phone and tablet didn't need to run windows and use the money he saved not buying windows to max out the ram. I helped him rip his dvd collection and setup Kodi, he had gimp and open office to make fliers for his band, and was really happy with it for a little over a year. Then he bought a new TV we just couldn't get to work right and instead of taking the time to figure out the issue with drivers he got frustrated and bought win 10 he still uses Kodi, gimp, and open office. Had he asked prior to purchasing the TV I would have recommended something else and he would still be on Ubuntu.
yeah no clue there, I was thinking of things like elevators, self winding watches, and hydro electric dams. {I attribute these to gravity although it's really gravity + something else}
I figure somebody will come up with a simple, cheap, and novel way to use gravity eventually. It won't be perpetual motion, probably won't power your house, or be on the scale of hover dam, it will probably be simple and everyday.
It happens all the time something that no one had ever thought of or maybe appeared impossible is suddenly made and every one is thinking "wow! That is so simple why the heck didn't I think of that."
I don't know about perpetual motion but I have often thought that there should be a way to use gravity outside of the ways it's already commonly used, I just have never come up with one.
I doubt self-driving cars are going to be in common use anytime soon maybe in two or three decades if at all. Assisted driving already exists to some extent and will likely get much better before that.
You could "easily modify" some piece-of-junk 1982 car to get better than 40mpg or so? I'm sorry, I think you're full of shit.
I think you don't know your history. Why don't you look up the mpg on some 82 vehicles that was right before chloral floral carbon scares and the stricter emission controls laws and right after the 1973 oil and 1979 energy crisis a lot of those vehicle broke 40 mpg from the factory and they had only the most basic emission control systems which when removed would increase economy by 3-5mpg.
It's routine for cars to reach 100k miles now and still fetch a very good price on the used market; 30 years ago a car that age was ready for the junkyard.
I have had two 82 cavaliers and an 82 buick custom that ended up going to the junkyard with over 200k miles. I liked that year in particular because it was the last of the throttle body and they could easily be modified to exceed what we today consider a good high mpg rating.
Auto quality has never been better, and it's easily proven: cars are lasting longer than ever and holding their value better than ever.
You can't say with any certainty that cars are lasting longer or retaining value better yet. One of my neighbors has an unmodified, original paint, still has the original engine, over 200k miles, 1967 mustang, granted the engine was rebuilt after about 150k but then again it's almost 50 years old and you can find plenty of cars from that era like that, not just mustangs, for as much as their original MSRP or up to 3x more if they are sporty and have been modified.
Manufacturing tolerances are tighter than ever, defects are low, and things last forever, especially mechanical parts.
My sister and her husband are both engineers and although the engines they design are not in your car, they might be in the dump truck that picks up your garbage, the great big generator at your data center, or the tractor a farmer is driving, they will be bitching about exactly the opposite when they come around on Christmas.
I have a basic media player using fmod that I designed but don't share. I've been using it for over a decade because I didn't like windows media player or winamp and there were really no other competition at the time.
The quality and workmanship of automotive has been in decline for some years now foreign or domestic. You don't have to act like a gorilla to break a flimsy piece of plastic as vehicles are subject to weather and cold makes plastic brittle. I live in an area that has sub-freezing and sometimes sub-zero temperatures during the winter, unfortunately I can't always park in a heated garage. It's been during the worst winter weather that I have always had those problems and I know I'm not the only one. There are businesses in the US mid-west that specifically market winterization and winter repair because it is a common problem.
They come off track, the switches are cheap junk that stops working after a year or two. I have had one or both of these issues in every car I've owned with power windows Dodge, Ford, Buick, Cadillac... all the same. I've owned Chevy, Toyota, and Nissan in the 70s and 80s but they were old enough that they didn't have power windows but I imagine they would not be much better today. I also find cheap plastic door handles to be a failing point the manufactures don't appear to care about.
They really haven't got power windows figured out properly in over 50 years...
Perhaps car manufactures need to look at what their customers really want in a car. All the additional electronics are nifty but most people want a car that is reliable. I want a car that isn't cheap flimsy plastic junk built on marketing hype for a premium price.
The fact is there is value to having your content public on the open web but companies refuse to accept that, they want to pretend there's no value to it and it's wholly a cost, but if that's true then why do they do it? They do it for the likes of the free advertising results from open content search engines like Google give them.
This is a poor assumption, there are plenty of web based only services out there that don't provide a service compelling enough to be able to use a pay model so they use advertising as a means of revenue. People are not going to take up a subscription of $9.99/mo, $4.99/mo, or even $19.99/yr for each service they use because there are just to many. Those businesses that do find value in having a presence on the public web are paying those sites for advertising.
I understand the he is in another country but at some point they know who it is and where to find them in the US at least computer hacking is a felony but battery is only a misdemeanor.
Just a thought that if they are complicit because the traffic passed over their network do they now have monitor all traffic for copyright infringing content including decrypting encrypted communications. How does this work in the current legal framework and still allow the business to exist?
That is the problem what happens when they issue a notice that turns out to be without merit, the subscriber's account is suspended, the ISP looses reputation and money for allowing it, and the outsourced dmca engine just keep auto generating more notices. Does the ISP get to say to them these are the subscribers who's services where suspended without cause these are the ones that left and here is bill for that lost revenue? does the subscriber get to charge them for hook up fees when they move to a new service or damages when their accounts are suspended?
The fact that people overwhelmingly view the ads is a pretty solid piece of evidence that the world isn't how many of us wish it to be.
The example here is a newspaper... chances are people are not turning off their ad-blocker for just any old site they are picking and choosing the ones they trust or are willing to spend the bandwidth on if they are using something with a bandwidth cap.
There is the problem if you must insist that users disable their ad-blocker in order to access your services you must also be liable for any advertising presented. If it contains malicious software then you are liable for the damages.
A good business would have tasteful ads free of malicious software, they would remind people that the service they are using is ad based when detecting an ad-blocker, and also give them the opportunity to have an ad free paid subscription.
In a world where you agree to see advertising for a service instead of paying a subscription the service provider can stop providing ad based service if they are no longer able to make money on it.
There is still more to it than that they also have to make sure they are providing a quality service and the advertising is clean of malware, etc... otherwise they will have a bad reputation and people will leave both the paid and ad based service.
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There is a big difference between idiot proof and not having drivers for common name brand hardware.
It would be more like purchasing a GMC truck to haul a trailer but finding out the truck would have to modified because the required hitch is only made to fit ford F-Series trucks.
Ubuntu and similar Linux distros are definitely ready for the masses.
I disagree, they are almost ready, and it's not the code base that's the problem it's more the relationship with manufactures. When every manufacture starts making sure there are working drivers for their hardware at launch like they do for windows then it will be fully ready.
I've used linux off and on since the early 90s and it's always the same problem some manufacture don't care if their consumer stuff doesn't work with linux so either you wait for someone capable of writing drivers to take interest or write them yourself. Otherwise it's a good stable system and if you purchase your hardware with linux in mind then it works out great.
There may be a guinness world record in there. "The song with the most deleted copies."
My not so tech savvy brother had me build a pc for him. He decided to go for Ubuntu instead of windows because his phone and tablet didn't need to run windows and use the money he saved not buying windows to max out the ram. I helped him rip his dvd collection and setup Kodi, he had gimp and open office to make fliers for his band, and was really happy with it for a little over a year. Then he bought a new TV we just couldn't get to work right and instead of taking the time to figure out the issue with drivers he got frustrated and bought win 10 he still uses Kodi, gimp, and open office. Had he asked prior to purchasing the TV I would have recommended something else and he would still be on Ubuntu.
I don't know it could replace the rickroll...
There is no such thing as bad publicity?
yeah no clue there, I was thinking of things like elevators, self winding watches, and hydro electric dams. {I attribute these to gravity although it's really gravity + something else}
I figure somebody will come up with a simple, cheap, and novel way to use gravity eventually. It won't be perpetual motion, probably won't power your house, or be on the scale of hover dam, it will probably be simple and everyday.
It happens all the time something that no one had ever thought of or maybe appeared impossible is suddenly made and every one is thinking "wow! That is so simple why the heck didn't I think of that."
I don't know about perpetual motion but I have often thought that there should be a way to use gravity outside of the ways it's already commonly used, I just have never come up with one.
I doubt self-driving cars are going to be in common use anytime soon maybe in two or three decades if at all. Assisted driving already exists to some extent and will likely get much better before that.
You could "easily modify" some piece-of-junk 1982 car to get better than 40mpg or so? I'm sorry, I think you're full of shit.
I think you don't know your history. Why don't you look up the mpg on some 82 vehicles that was right before chloral floral carbon scares and the stricter emission controls laws and right after the 1973 oil and 1979 energy crisis a lot of those vehicle broke 40 mpg from the factory and they had only the most basic emission control systems which when removed would increase economy by 3-5mpg.
It's routine for cars to reach 100k miles now and still fetch a very good price on the used market; 30 years ago a car that age was ready for the junkyard.
I have had two 82 cavaliers and an 82 buick custom that ended up going to the junkyard with over 200k miles. I liked that year in particular because it was the last of the throttle body and they could easily be modified to exceed what we today consider a good high mpg rating.
Auto quality has never been better, and it's easily proven: cars are lasting longer than ever and holding their value better than ever.
You can't say with any certainty that cars are lasting longer or retaining value better yet. One of my neighbors has an unmodified, original paint, still has the original engine, over 200k miles, 1967 mustang, granted the engine was rebuilt after about 150k but then again it's almost 50 years old and you can find plenty of cars from that era like that, not just mustangs, for as much as their original MSRP or up to 3x more if they are sporty and have been modified.
Manufacturing tolerances are tighter than ever, defects are low, and things last forever, especially mechanical parts.
My sister and her husband are both engineers and although the engines they design are not in your car, they might be in the dump truck that picks up your garbage, the great big generator at your data center, or the tractor a farmer is driving, they will be bitching about exactly the opposite when they come around on Christmas.
I have a basic media player using fmod that I designed but don't share. I've been using it for over a decade because I didn't like windows media player or winamp and there were really no other competition at the time.
The quality and workmanship of automotive has been in decline for some years now foreign or domestic. You don't have to act like a gorilla to break a flimsy piece of plastic as vehicles are subject to weather and cold makes plastic brittle. I live in an area that has sub-freezing and sometimes sub-zero temperatures during the winter, unfortunately I can't always park in a heated garage. It's been during the worst winter weather that I have always had those problems and I know I'm not the only one. There are businesses in the US mid-west that specifically market winterization and winter repair because it is a common problem.
You mean Made in America like Toyota, Chevy, Honda, Buick, and GMC?
http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/...
I know Toyota has more American Made cars than Ford, when did that happen?
They come off track, the switches are cheap junk that stops working after a year or two. I have had one or both of these issues in every car I've owned with power windows Dodge, Ford, Buick, Cadillac... all the same. I've owned Chevy, Toyota, and Nissan in the 70s and 80s but they were old enough that they didn't have power windows but I imagine they would not be much better today. I also find cheap plastic door handles to be a failing point the manufactures don't appear to care about.
They really haven't got power windows figured out properly in over 50 years...
Perhaps car manufactures need to look at what their customers really want in a car. All the additional electronics are nifty but most people want a car that is reliable. I want a car that isn't cheap flimsy plastic junk built on marketing hype for a premium price.
Try going paperless and dataless... run from a live disc, no cloud, no hard drive, or storage media, and nothing to backup. There you go.
The fact is there is value to having your content public on the open web but companies refuse to accept that, they want to pretend there's no value to it and it's wholly a cost, but if that's true then why do they do it? They do it for the likes of the free advertising results from open content search engines like Google give them.
This is a poor assumption, there are plenty of web based only services out there that don't provide a service compelling enough to be able to use a pay model so they use advertising as a means of revenue. People are not going to take up a subscription of $9.99/mo, $4.99/mo, or even $19.99/yr for each service they use because there are just to many. Those businesses that do find value in having a presence on the public web are paying those sites for advertising.
I understand the he is in another country but at some point they know who it is and where to find them in the US at least computer hacking is a felony but battery is only a misdemeanor.
Just a thought that if they are complicit because the traffic passed over their network do they now have monitor all traffic for copyright infringing content including decrypting encrypted communications. How does this work in the current legal framework and still allow the business to exist?
That is the problem what happens when they issue a notice that turns out to be without merit, the subscriber's account is suspended, the ISP looses reputation and money for allowing it, and the outsourced dmca engine just keep auto generating more notices. Does the ISP get to say to them these are the subscribers who's services where suspended without cause these are the ones that left and here is bill for that lost revenue? does the subscriber get to charge them for hook up fees when they move to a new service or damages when their accounts are suspended?
I'm guessing it depends on how much inline assembly you have mixed into it as to whether it's really abstracted.
The fact that people overwhelmingly view the ads is a pretty solid piece of evidence that the world isn't how many of us wish it to be.
The example here is a newspaper... chances are people are not turning off their ad-blocker for just any old site they are picking and choosing the ones they trust or are willing to spend the bandwidth on if they are using something with a bandwidth cap.
There is the problem if you must insist that users disable their ad-blocker in order to access your services you must also be liable for any advertising presented. If it contains malicious software then you are liable for the damages.
A good business would have tasteful ads free of malicious software, they would remind people that the service they are using is ad based when detecting an ad-blocker, and also give them the opportunity to have an ad free paid subscription.
In a world where you agree to see advertising for a service instead of paying a subscription the service provider can stop providing ad based service if they are no longer able to make money on it.
There is still more to it than that they also have to make sure they are providing a quality service and the advertising is clean of malware, etc... otherwise they will have a bad reputation and people will leave both the paid and ad based service.