You do know the keystone pipeline would raise the cost of oil and lessen the supply to the industries you quote right?
What the lobbyists who produce this information and fancy commercials and radio talk shows don't tell you is where this oil is going?
It is not going to you. It is going to cars in China who are used to paying $9 a gallon for gas. If all of North America's gas could be sold for %300 why would they sell it to you, or fertilizer, plastic, electrical, or medical companies? Unless you want to pay $7 a gallon for gas of course.
This is why Obama vetoed it. We have all the liability of a potential accident with less product.
Why if it ain't broke don't fix it! Old software works fine today the same as it did when it was 1st installed.
If your brains melted it was because you never worked from a non.com old school smoke stack company. They do not care about technology as long as it works. Why do you think the move to clouds and renting are becoming big now? My comment scares the crap out of software companies because I am right. Once a solution is placed. It takes,an act of god to replace or upgrade
Witness all the XP is God comments here when it went EOL with IT guys refusing to move to Windows 7 even though it was almost 5 years old last year??
Many do fear change. The argument if it ain't broke don't fix it and upgrades are tricks from the marketing departments at software companies are common from those over 40. I am near 40 and see the other argument too. I work at a call center company and we don't upgrade until it stops working. Exception was the XP upgrade. If you are not a.com company then there are reasons to ever upgrade etc. CIOS need to justify why they are needed. Maybe just IT directors for regular old school companies are fine.
I am split as I see both sides but biased to upgrade as old software and hardware has problems with security, rendering pages in non IE browsers, can fail with no support etc.
It's probably funny to people who don't have to earn a living. I expect I'd have considered it hilarious back in high school... but now, if a colleague did this, I'd probably demand he be fired.
It's hysterical.
Yes, on April 1st I would do that to you and replace the ";" on just one of your source files. I would only do it for about 30 minutes or so and chuckle and see if you can find out what I did etc.
Notice I would not do a find and replace all and take a whole project done and miss a deadline. But I do have a sense of humor. If you did it to me I would be amazed and pissed laughing it off at the same time for being super genius. I would not demand you would be fired. Now if you did this for a whole day or two and we lost a contract that cost money then yes a head would have to roll/
Last weekend I just replaced my 2nd sansdisk ssd after constant disk corruption issues. Only 1\2 a petabyte was written. I replaced lots of components trying to find the culprit as the other drive had the same problem.
Another slashdotter a few months ago mentioned his team downgrades all his industrial equipment with mechanical disks as the ssds always fail out in the environment. Sure benchmarks show how great and reliable. Real use dictates otherwise. I only buy Samsung pros now for reliability but I give credit where it's due.
Ask hairyfeet or anyone working in an it shop? They do fail randomly was and for some still is a problem. So take a risk if you need the speed
So wonderful our Cisco routers, SAP, and Kronos require +200 exploitable holes be on all corporate computers where I get blamed and writeups for cryptolocker infections.
Needless to say our accounting department does not want to pay upgrade as they work fine.
That's the really interesting question, since on board graphics just tend to work nowadays and the only real use case of such software for a consumer is as a fall back for when it doesn't and in that case the fancy graphics tend to get turned off anyway.
Not good at all! Boy this older cpu is just not cutting come to think of it.
I wonder if a nice shiny new i7 extreme edition would be in order for decent performance?
They should have done the honest moral profit center of packaging risky loans and betting against their customers on wall street. Good for nothing cost centers
Well, those that do not understand Unix are bound to re-invent its mechanisms, poorly. Systemd is a text-book example of that. Unfortunately, with the Linux community growing, far more idiots came in in recent years than people with a clue.
Here we go again.
Init is standard because it is the best and why change for the sake of change? Name one other OS that has switched away from init? 1. Solaris EMF (2008)... uh 2. MacOSX LaunchD(2006)... well I guess it is not really Unix 3. NetBSD (2008?)... hey wait a minute. It is still init... well modules in its place. You edit those. Hmmm different and not the traditional unix way 4. Ubuntu Upstart(2010?)... hey wait a minute pal! Ubuntu is cool and no way and you MR. GATES ARE A TROLL!! 5, Linux (SystemD):... Linux is the 1st OS to replace the all so popular Init. Why change??
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SCO, Irix, and HP-UX are the only holdouts. Oh Sco is dead and Irix has been done for 10 years. HP-UX is on life support etc. Leaves just FreeBSD and OpenBSD left unmodified.
If Init is sooo freaking awesome why is everyone switching to event driven replacements?
Well if you feel having processes launch processes which launch processes to tens of thousands of freaking PIDs and +200 lines of if... fi scripts of every event which would spawn spawn another event to configure another event with over +3000 packages and probably over a dozen daemons running is a normal, unix way, right way to do something in 2015 then Init is perfect for you. Let's say you have a Macbook. It goes to sleep at your desk. You board a plane. You wake it open in a hotel room that evening. How would you program it to get on the network with init?
With an event driven system you do not have this problem which is why Apple invented launchedD it can do this automatically.
From what I read SystemD is modular and has separate components and follows the Unix philosophy more than Init. Is it any good? I don't know I am not a Unix administrator. But I am tired of seeing the hate and am intelligent enough to see why things are going the way they are. I am thinking of a scenario right now with an Apache or Ngnix box and with EMF on Solaris or SystemD I can write some event scripts in case a network connection goes down or what if it is hacked? That is some cool stuff with automation I can accomplish.
True the neckbeards running XP still probably have 20 years of scripts written for the old way described above who as a result of their effort who are fuming mad at the lost time and do not want to change but whatever. Actually I do not care about OpenBSD using the old way as OpenBSD tends to be for specific purposes with minimal configurations and changes running so the problems above are less problematic.
linux doesn't have a systemd problem, systemd has an ignorant trolls problem
I would say they do considering this IS NOT A LINUX/SYSTEMD story!
Shoot I feel like I am watching Foxnews comments or MSNBC where a dog gets run over by a car caught on video and somehow it all goes back to Obama's fault. It is alike an autistic obession with these trolls.... also that rant has nothing to do with OpenBSD either I may add.
But I see parallels now with anti SystemD here. What's next? A story about a new NVMe SSD storage breakthru... a comment comes up about systemD in that in how we wouldn't need these devices if SystemD was better or something stupid getting modded +5. Give it a break and moderators please do your job.
If I had any points I would mod down any talk of systemD in a story like this one.
In Internet options you can use a privacy list from ad block plus. Edge will have or has in development mode a webkit add on support in 10.1 which will come out next spring.
10 and edge were rushed Vista style so not to miss the back to school cycle. I am keeping 8.1 and office 2013 until it becomes stable next spring
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
What kind of moron would use Windows of all Oses with all it's flaws and with Windows 7 now freaking 5 years of exploits all ready for Hackers to steal your credit info?!
So I just just set my mom's computer not to automatically update? Her computer will never get patched if that happens.
Who modded this up?
To use a widly targeted and popular OS like WIndows without AV and updates is batshit insane for any system to be connected to the internet. Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
I question any user who says proudly he does not update his computer with a smile who calls himself a computer geek. I hope the Russian hackers who put flash ads with malware have not cleaned your Mom's bank account yet. Oh that is right I bet you are probably one of these users who thinks if you do not install software you are 100% safe and no exploits in flash, chrome, IE, or in javascript that of course will never get patched
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf.
Are you buying shit screens and then complaining about the result? Also do you sit 6in from your 24" monitor?
Bulky plastic,
Huh? Wtf are you buying?
mechanical disks, etc
No! STOP! Really just stop!
Get out of the second hand thrift shop and actually go to an electronics store.
You proved my point and the article:-)
Only MS and Apple make pcs that rival phones in terms of quality and innovation. Any Best Buy will have thick bulky plastic pcs, mechanical disks, race to the bottom screens, etc. Phones will be nice and shiny. Consumers ntice and prefer phones as a result. A high end laptop? Same junk with a faster cpu and now 17 inch display that is not visible in sunlight.
Surface is top grade.
MS needs to awaken the industry and stop the race to the bottom.
IE 11 is the new eternal IE 6. Yes Windows 10 includes IE 11 AND Edge.
Too many corporations refuae to ever upgrade unless their is a business case with a return on investment can be documented. Java desktop applets were depreciated in 2006 9 years ago!!
Most require IE 6 anyway to render right so firefox won't help. Our customers at work require IE 6 emulated to 1998 quirks mode through citrix to run. Oddly it is still upgraded and developers just work around the 15 year old rendering bugs rather than rewrite
Ask a Mom or Joe six pack which he uses Facebook more on? The answer is their phone followed by an ipad.
Better graphics, battery life, starts instantly etc. MS has to make the surface and surface laptop which has ssds, thin, boots quick, has 200 dpi, and modern chips are more power efficient.
Sorry phones are innovation. PC is mainframe and lame for the users.
The faster based on specs fuel innovation is looking at it thru a 1990s glasses. PC makers don't get it.
What is innovation? Apps that do new things, smaller, power efficient, shareable work flows, cloud integrated, high dpi, more mobile, better asthetics, etc
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf . Bulky plastic, mechanical disks, etc
Office 2016 you quote? HUGE upgrade. Shared editing in real time with integrated Skype and chat is sweet for college students and groups. You can write a paper in real time and see others writting while having a video conversation. Functions are now searchable too. Yes Google Docs ripoff.:-)
I own a surface 3 pro which slashdot tees LOVE to bash as the coming of the anti christ with systemD as it's prophet. Truth be told it is night and day compared to a bulky core laptop with battery life and boot up time thanks to ssd and efi booting. Metro actually works. Lenovo yoga, HP convertables, and surface pro rock.
My point was I like Slashdot for example to be paid only by ethical ads. To me I am willing to compromise and if a site is an asshole and uses 30 ad networks per page then 100% get blocked and they get no money.
My point of view is it gives sites and ad networks an economic incentive to be ethical by adblock plus allowing only ethical ads with strict criteria with the option to block all.
How adblock plus works is they need to allow acceptable use to be able to display and you can still disable that. This means no full screen ads, sounds, malware, zombie cookies you can't delete in flash, redirects, etc.
Websites still get paid only if they allow ethical ads. I am a fan of this as I do want to pay Slashdot and other sites. It is only fair that I take up their space, time, and bandwidth right?
Slashdot Mirror
Unlike desktops big iron use tape and raid backups
You do know the keystone pipeline would raise the cost of oil and lessen the supply to the industries you quote right?
What the lobbyists who produce this information and fancy commercials and radio talk shows don't tell you is where this oil is going?
It is not going to you. It is going to cars in China who are used to paying $9 a gallon for gas. If all of North America's gas could be sold for %300 why would they sell it to you, or fertilizer, plastic, electrical, or medical companies? Unless you want to pay $7 a gallon for gas of course.
This is why Obama vetoed it. We have all the liability of a potential accident with less product.
Large files were a problem with atom
IT always is the 1st to get cut when the share price or sales go down.
Why if it ain't broke don't fix it! Old software works fine today the same as it did when it was 1st installed.
If your brains melted it was because you never worked from a non .com old school smoke stack company. They do not care about technology as long as it works. Why do you think the move to clouds and renting are becoming big now? My comment scares the crap out of software companies because I am right. Once a solution is placed. It takes,an act of god to replace or upgrade
Witness all the XP is God comments here when it went EOL with IT guys refusing to move to Windows 7 even though it was almost 5 years old last year??
Many do fear change. The argument if it ain't broke don't fix it and upgrades are tricks from the marketing departments at software companies are common from those over 40. I am near 40 and see the other argument too. I work at a call center company and we don't upgrade until it stops working. Exception was the XP upgrade. If you are not a .com company then there are reasons to ever upgrade etc. CIOS need to justify why they are needed. Maybe just IT directors for regular old school companies are fine.
I am split as I see both sides but biased to upgrade as old software and hardware has problems with security, rendering pages in non IE browsers, can fail with no support etc.
It's probably funny to people who don't have to earn a living. I expect I'd have considered it hilarious back in high school... but now, if a colleague did this, I'd probably demand he be fired.
It's hysterical.
Yes, on April 1st I would do that to you and replace the ";" on just one of your source files. I would only do it for about 30 minutes or so and chuckle and see if you can find out what I did etc.
Notice I would not do a find and replace all and take a whole project done and miss a deadline. But I do have a sense of humor. If you did it to me I would be amazed and pissed laughing it off at the same time for being super genius. I would not demand you would be fired. Now if you did this for a whole day or two and we lost a contract that cost money then yes a head would have to roll/
Speak for yourself.
Last weekend I just replaced my 2nd sansdisk ssd after constant disk corruption issues. Only 1\2 a petabyte was written. I replaced lots of components trying to find the culprit as the other drive had the same problem.
Another slashdotter a few months ago mentioned his team downgrades all his industrial equipment with mechanical disks as the ssds always fail out in the environment. Sure benchmarks show how great and reliable. Real use dictates otherwise. I only buy Samsung pros now for reliability but I give credit where it's due.
Ask hairyfeet or anyone working in an it shop? They do fail randomly was and for some still is a problem. So take a risk if you need the speed
... for those on Java 5/6 to get these updates.
So wonderful our Cisco routers, SAP, and Kronos require +200 exploitable holes be on all corporate computers where I get blamed and writeups for cryptolocker infections.
Needless to say our accounting department does not want to pay upgrade as they work fine.
That's the really interesting question, since on board graphics just tend to work nowadays and the only real use case of such software for a consumer is as a fall back for when it doesn't and in that case the fancy graphics tend to get turned off anyway.
Not good at all! Boy this older cpu is just not cutting come to think of it.
I wonder if a nice shiny new i7 extreme edition would be in order for decent performance?
After all they can be sued for getting another job to feed their families as they can't work for free or severance pay for 2 years right?
They should have done the honest moral profit center of packaging risky loans and betting against their customers on wall street. Good for nothing cost centers
Well, those that do not understand Unix are bound to re-invent its mechanisms, poorly. Systemd is a text-book example of that. Unfortunately, with the Linux community growing, far more idiots came in in recent years than people with a clue.
Here we go again.
Init is standard because it is the best and why change for the sake of change? Name one other OS that has switched away from init? ... uh ... hey wait a minute. It is still init ... well modules in its place. You edit those. Hmmm different and not the traditional unix way ... hey wait a minute pal! Ubuntu is cool and no way and you MR. GATES ARE A TROLL!! ... Linux is the 1st OS to replace the all so popular Init. Why change??
1. Solaris EMF (2008)
2. MacOSX LaunchD(2006)... well I guess it is not really Unix
3. NetBSD (2008?)
4. Ubuntu Upstart(2010?)
5, Linux (SystemD):
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SCO, Irix, and HP-UX are the only holdouts. Oh Sco is dead and Irix has been done for 10 years. HP-UX is on life support etc. Leaves just FreeBSD and OpenBSD left unmodified.
If Init is sooo freaking awesome why is everyone switching to event driven replacements?
Well if you feel having processes launch processes which launch processes to tens of thousands of freaking PIDs and +200 lines of if ... fi scripts of every event which would spawn spawn another event to configure another event with over +3000 packages and probably over a dozen daemons running is a normal, unix way, right way to do something in 2015 then Init is perfect for you. Let's say you have a Macbook. It goes to sleep at your desk. You board a plane. You wake it open in a hotel room that evening. How would you program it to get on the network with init?
With an event driven system you do not have this problem which is why Apple invented launchedD it can do this automatically.
From what I read SystemD is modular and has separate components and follows the Unix philosophy more than Init. Is it any good? I don't know I am not a Unix administrator. But I am tired of seeing the hate and am intelligent enough to see why things are going the way they are. I am thinking of a scenario right now with an Apache or Ngnix box and with EMF on Solaris or SystemD I can write some event scripts in case a network connection goes down or what if it is hacked? That is some cool stuff with automation I can accomplish.
True the neckbeards running XP still probably have 20 years of scripts written for the old way described above who as a result of their effort who are fuming mad at the lost time and do not want to change but whatever. Actually I do not care about OpenBSD using the old way as OpenBSD tends to be for specific purposes with minimal configurations and changes running so the problems above are less problematic.
linux doesn't have a systemd problem, systemd has an ignorant trolls problem
I would say they do considering this IS NOT A LINUX/SYSTEMD story!
Shoot I feel like I am watching Foxnews comments or MSNBC where a dog gets run over by a car caught on video and somehow it all goes back to Obama's fault. It is alike an autistic obession with these trolls. ... also that rant has nothing to do with OpenBSD either I may add.
But I see parallels now with anti SystemD here. What's next? A story about a new NVMe SSD storage breakthru ... a comment comes up about systemD in that in how we wouldn't need these devices if SystemD was better or something stupid getting modded +5. Give it a break and moderators please do your job.
If I had any points I would mod down any talk of systemD in a story like this one.
In Internet options you can use a privacy list from ad block plus. Edge will have or has in development mode a webkit add on support in 10.1 which will come out next spring.
10 and edge were rushed Vista style so not to miss the back to school cycle. I am keeping 8.1 and office 2013 until it becomes stable next spring
You actually have automatic updates ON?
WTF?
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
What kind of moron would use Windows of all Oses with all it's flaws and with Windows 7 now freaking 5 years of exploits all ready for Hackers to steal your credit info?!
So I just just set my mom's computer not to automatically update? Her computer will never get patched if that happens.
Who modded this up?
To use a widly targeted and popular OS like WIndows without AV and updates is batshit insane for any system to be connected to the internet. Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
I question any user who says proudly he does not update his computer with a smile who calls himself a computer geek. I hope the Russian hackers who put flash ads with malware have not cleaned your Mom's bank account yet. Oh that is right I bet you are probably one of these users who thinks if you do not install software you are 100% safe and no exploits in flash, chrome, IE, or in javascript that of course will never get patched
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf .
Are you buying shit screens and then complaining about the result? Also do you sit 6in from your 24" monitor?
Bulky plastic,
Huh? Wtf are you buying?
mechanical disks, etc
No! STOP! Really just stop!
Get out of the second hand thrift shop and actually go to an electronics store.
You proved my point and the article :-)
Only MS and Apple make pcs that rival phones in terms of quality and innovation. Any Best Buy will have thick bulky plastic pcs, mechanical disks, race to the bottom screens, etc. Phones will be nice and shiny. Consumers ntice and prefer phones as a result. A high end laptop? Same junk with a faster cpu and now 17 inch display that is not visible in sunlight.
Surface is top grade.
MS needs to awaken the industry and stop the race to the bottom.
IE 11 is the new eternal IE 6. Yes Windows 10 includes IE 11 AND Edge.
Too many corporations refuae to ever upgrade unless their is a business case with a return on investment can be documented. Java desktop applets were depreciated in 2006 9 years ago!!
Most require IE 6 anyway to render right so firefox won't help. Our customers at work require IE 6 emulated to 1998 quirks mode through citrix to run. Oddly it is still upgraded and developers just work around the 15 year old rendering bugs rather than rewrite
http://blog.davidelner.com/dua...
Ask a Mom or Joe six pack which he uses Facebook more on? The answer is their phone followed by an ipad.
Better graphics, battery life, starts instantly etc. MS has to make the surface and surface laptop which has ssds, thin, boots quick, has 200 dpi, and modern chips are more power efficient.
Sorry phones are innovation. PC is mainframe and lame for the users.
The faster based on specs fuel innovation is looking at it thru a 1990s glasses. PC makers don't get it.
What is innovation? Apps that do new things, smaller, power efficient, shareable work flows, cloud integrated, high dpi, more mobile, better asthetics, etc
Compared to phones pcs suck!! 100 dpi in 2015 wtf . Bulky plastic, mechanical disks, etc
Office 2016 you quote? HUGE upgrade. Shared editing in real time with integrated Skype and chat is sweet for college students and groups. You can write a paper in real time and see others writting while having a video conversation. Functions are now searchable too. Yes Google Docs ripoff. :-)
I own a surface 3 pro which slashdot tees LOVE to bash as the coming of the anti christ with systemD as it's prophet. Truth be told it is night and day compared to a bulky core laptop with battery life and boot up time thanks to ssd and efi booting. Metro actually works. Lenovo yoga, HP convertables, and surface pro rock.
Just kidding
I use adblock.
My point was I like Slashdot for example to be paid only by ethical ads. To me I am willing to compromise and if a site is an asshole and uses 30 ad networks per page then 100% get blocked and they get no money.
My point of view is it gives sites and ad networks an economic incentive to be ethical by adblock plus allowing only ethical ads with strict criteria with the option to block all.
Not necessarily true.
How adblock plus works is they need to allow acceptable use to be able to display and you can still disable that. This means no full screen ads, sounds, malware, zombie cookies you can't delete in flash, redirects, etc.
Websites still get paid only if they allow ethical ads. I am a fan of this as I do want to pay Slashdot and other sites. It is only fair that I take up their space, time, and bandwidth right?