"Nuke Anything" was very useful in handling a trashy website that promised a useful nugget of Something of Value buried under the rubbish. I am sure there will be a QF equivalent at some point (or maybe that capability is already in QF and I just haven't found it yet).
What's wrong with just "inspect element"? That's what I use, deleted countless floating video players, scrolling banners and other annoyances with it.
Did anyone ever mention to you that collusion is not a crime? However, conspiracy against the government of the USA is a crime, a high crime in fact. That is what the Trump campaign is being investigated for, that and money laundering, possibly tax evasion as well. And, oh perjury. And, hmm, assorted unconstitutional activities. And, um, obstruction of justice. Hmm, probably that's not the end of it.
I switched to bing/news some time ago. Also sucks in various ways, but does not suck nearly as hard as google/news, which is just plain user-offensive.
What about Youtube, a notorious cesspool of belly crawling shitposters with a distinct odor of vodka, who regularly mob the comments section of videos that are even faintly critical of Trump or favorable to Trump's opponents.
There will be more litigation and maybe this new ruling will be overturned, or maybe not.
The appellate court ruling is high quality, clear, and logically ties together a lot of the loose ends in software copyright. It will not be overturned, and will guide software copyright for generations to come (that is, although there are still procedural ways it could be overturned, any reasonable judge is likely to be convinced of the solidness of that decision). Future litigation will revolve around what exactly should be filtered out, and what can be abstracted, thus building on the appellate court decision.
The whole truth please. In 2016 a jury found that Google's use of Oracle's (newly deemed) copyrighted APIs is fair use. Final score: greed 0, common sense 1.
Never mind that the "high quality" appellate decision you laud is actually idiocy in the supreme, the structure and sequence of function declarations not deserving any more copyright protection than a list of names and phone numbers does. Now that that stupidity has been effectively neutered by a jury it does not matter whether it stands or falls, but in any case it remains an embarrassment to the rule of common sense.
have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful
Is this still true if you're sitting down and using a portable keyboard?
Not as bad. I have done this, also with a bluetooth mouse, and it is ok except for the 5 inch screen, and the crap keyboard shortcut and cut and paste support in Android. Ergonomically, not something you want to be doing 9 hours a day.
There will never be a "Year of Linux on the desktop" because the desktop is dying.
That doesn't make any sense at all. First, you are confused about the term "desktop"... it means a particular kind of GUI, not the form factor of the machine. The desktop will never will never die because it is the most productive interface for people who actually need to do desktop kinds of work. So, at the moment, many people use a desktop for something else entirely, e.g., consuming media. Those will migrate away, but have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful. You don't want to do a whole hell of a lot of software development on a phone either. So there always will be a core constituency of desktop users, even if diminished from today's numbers. With the desktop shrinking, and Linux's absolute numbers of desktop users growing, the net effect is to hasten the day when Linux desktop usage increases beyond a sliver of the pie chart, exactly the opposite of the result you suggest. Meanwhile... writing this on a Linux desktop and liking it.
What the fuck is wrong with moderation on Slashdot?
Is some other new fusion design going suddenly break us out of this pattern?
No. Incremental advances like this one in material science are going to do it. Same deal with the electric car, there was never any fundamental breakthrough, just thousands of incremental advances. Look how long it took, but now you know your next car is most probably going to be one of those. Chances are, the timeline of fusion power will end up shorter than that of the practical electric automobile, despite the engineering challenges being orders of magnitude harder.
There will never be a "Year of Linux on the desktop" because the desktop is dying.
That doesn't make any sense at all. First, you are confused about the term "desktop"... it means a particular kind of GUI, not the form factor of the machine. The desktop will never will never die because it is the most productive interface for people who actually need to do desktop kinds of work. So, at the moment, many people use a desktop for something else entirely, e.g., consuming media. Those will migrate away, but have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful. You don't want to do a whole hell of a lot of software development on a phone either. So there always will be a core constituency of desktop users, even if diminished from today's numbers. With the desktop shrinking, and Linux's absolute numbers of desktop users growing, the net effect is to hasten the day when Linux desktop usage increases beyond a sliver of the pie chart, exactly the opposite of the result you suggest. Meanwhile... writing this on a Linux desktop and liking it.
Our demand for party balloons, helium filled disks and Goodyear blimps will never run out right? So after US stocks run out what then? Could fusion power possibly make helium a renewable resource?
a company that has built a reputation for flawless software
Oh come on. Nobody remembers Macos? The Macintosh bomb? Pretty much anything developed by Apple in-house? Flawless software... don't make me chuck my cookies. Reputation, yes, a reputation built by pure spin and outright lying. Flawless and Apple do not belong in the same sentence.
Microsoft now offers Linux for servers, so I am told. Many of their cloud platforms run on Linux
"If you can't beat them, join them." It's sound business practice, but it does not mean Microsoft's dirty tricks culture is over. The real watershed moment will arrive when they start contributing to interoperability with Libreoffice and Samba because, you know, it makes good business sense to play well with others.
for the many of them saying they run Linux is really BS, all they have done is taken a few bits that they needed and saved themselves some coding time, they don't run Linux in anything but name.
Why do you even need an operating system. Why not run 'on bare metal'?
Because each node needs to manage its hardware resources, interact with other nodes, and provide a standard binary api to applications. In other words, it needs an operating system.
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Where I am from I am told to support this or YOU"RE FIRED and replaced with an Indian who will. I don't get to chose...
I would walk from there immediately, and get a raise while at it.
"Nuke Anything" was very useful in handling a trashy website that promised a useful nugget of Something of Value buried under the rubbish. I am sure there will be a QF equivalent at some point (or maybe that capability is already in QF and I just haven't found it yet).
What's wrong with just "inspect element"? That's what I use, deleted countless floating video players, scrolling banners and other annoyances with it.
it's not like the messiah has returned...
Oh no wait, you're wrong, it is like that. Except Firefox returning is real.
Ah, sorry about that, you are completely correct. Does not mean that Trump and his cronies should escape prosecution.
Sucks to be you, Ivan
Did anyone ever mention to you that collusion is not a crime? However, conspiracy against the government of the USA is a crime, a high crime in fact. That is what the Trump campaign is being investigated for, that and money laundering, possibly tax evasion as well. And, oh perjury. And, hmm, assorted unconstitutional activities. And, um, obstruction of justice. Hmm, probably that's not the end of it.
I switched to bing/news some time ago. Also sucks in various ways, but does not suck nearly as hard as google/news, which is just plain user-offensive.
What was not the propaganda on RT?
What about Youtube, a notorious cesspool of belly crawling shitposters with a distinct odor of vodka, who regularly mob the comments section of videos that are even faintly critical of Trump or favorable to Trump's opponents.
Not clear on the concept of case law?
I am not sure what planet you live on, where juries hardly matter.
There will be more litigation and maybe this new ruling will be overturned, or maybe not.
The appellate court ruling is high quality, clear, and logically ties together a lot of the loose ends in software copyright. It will not be overturned, and will guide software copyright for generations to come (that is, although there are still procedural ways it could be overturned, any reasonable judge is likely to be convinced of the solidness of that decision). Future litigation will revolve around what exactly should be filtered out, and what can be abstracted, thus building on the appellate court decision.
The whole truth please. In 2016 a jury found that Google's use of Oracle's (newly deemed) copyrighted APIs is fair use. Final score: greed 0, common sense 1.
Never mind that the "high quality" appellate decision you laud is actually idiocy in the supreme, the structure and sequence of function declarations not deserving any more copyright protection than a list of names and phone numbers does. Now that that stupidity has been effectively neutered by a jury it does not matter whether it stands or falls, but in any case it remains an embarrassment to the rule of common sense.
have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful
Is this still true if you're sitting down and using a portable keyboard?
Not as bad. I have done this, also with a bluetooth mouse, and it is ok except for the 5 inch screen, and the crap keyboard shortcut and cut and paste support in Android. Ergonomically, not something you want to be doing 9 hours a day.
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
Went over somebody's head, or what, just some asshole with mod points?
There will never be a "Year of Linux on the desktop" because the desktop is dying.
That doesn't make any sense at all. First, you are confused about the term "desktop"... it means a particular kind of GUI, not the form factor of the machine. The desktop will never will never die because it is the most productive interface for people who actually need to do desktop kinds of work. So, at the moment, many people use a desktop for something else entirely, e.g., consuming media. Those will migrate away, but have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful. You don't want to do a whole hell of a lot of software development on a phone either. So there always will be a core constituency of desktop users, even if diminished from today's numbers. With the desktop shrinking, and Linux's absolute numbers of desktop users growing, the net effect is to hasten the day when Linux desktop usage increases beyond a sliver of the pie chart, exactly the opposite of the result you suggest. Meanwhile... writing this on a Linux desktop and liking it.
What the fuck is wrong with moderation on Slashdot?
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
Is some other new fusion design going suddenly break us out of this pattern?
No. Incremental advances like this one in material science are going to do it. Same deal with the electric car, there was never any fundamental breakthrough, just thousands of incremental advances. Look how long it took, but now you know your next car is most probably going to be one of those. Chances are, the timeline of fusion power will end up shorter than that of the practical electric automobile, despite the engineering challenges being orders of magnitude harder.
There will never be a "Year of Linux on the desktop" because the desktop is dying.
That doesn't make any sense at all. First, you are confused about the term "desktop"... it means a particular kind of GUI, not the form factor of the machine. The desktop will never will never die because it is the most productive interface for people who actually need to do desktop kinds of work. So, at the moment, many people use a desktop for something else entirely, e.g., consuming media. Those will migrate away, but have you ever tried to write an essay on a phone? You can do it, but it's painful. You don't want to do a whole hell of a lot of software development on a phone either. So there always will be a core constituency of desktop users, even if diminished from today's numbers. With the desktop shrinking, and Linux's absolute numbers of desktop users growing, the net effect is to hasten the day when Linux desktop usage increases beyond a sliver of the pie chart, exactly the opposite of the result you suggest. Meanwhile... writing this on a Linux desktop and liking it.
Before you start worrying about the walls of your fusion machine, you need a fusion machine that can provide net positive energy.
Excuse me, but the point of this article is that the walls are part of the fusion machine.
Our demand for party balloons, helium filled disks and Goodyear blimps will never run out right? So after US stocks run out what then? Could fusion power possibly make helium a renewable resource?
a company that has built a reputation for flawless software
Oh come on. Nobody remembers Macos? The Macintosh bomb? Pretty much anything developed by Apple in-house? Flawless software... don't make me chuck my cookies. Reputation, yes, a reputation built by pure spin and outright lying. Flawless and Apple do not belong in the same sentence.
Microsoft now offers Linux for servers, so I am told. Many of their cloud platforms run on Linux
"If you can't beat them, join them." It's sound business practice, but it does not mean Microsoft's dirty tricks culture is over. The real watershed moment will arrive when they start contributing to interoperability with Libreoffice and Samba because, you know, it makes good business sense to play well with others.
one of those clusters was a dual boot experiment which climbed 50 places in the ranking when booted to linux
Really, this is the only comment anybody needs to read in the "why not Windows?" thread.
for the many of them saying they run Linux is really BS, all they have done is taken a few bits that they needed and saved themselves some coding time, they don't run Linux in anything but name.
You are an idiot.
Why do you even need an operating system. Why not run 'on bare metal'?
Because each node needs to manage its hardware resources, interact with other nodes, and provide a standard binary api to applications. In other words, it needs an operating system.