It is only subjective to a point. The problem is, there is no neutral ground... just the extremes of "you fucking pathetic, weak, filthy criminal, die by my hand!" and "meh... you're a corporation with a lot of money and good lawyers, we'll let it slide if you pay us ten grand."
They use their power to crush the weak (poor) to gain publicity, and the money talks for rich and famous fucks. There is no fucking "justice" in the current so-called United States "justice system." None at all.
With your view of good or bad, right or wrong, crime or no crime... you're forgetting one little thing. Relativity. Stealing a single candy bar from an already heavily profiting candy store is not the same as murdering someone, and should therefore have a more relaxed--dare I say it, sane--punishment.
Unfortunately, if you have a Windows 8/RT ARM-based system, disabling Secure Boot cannot be done... so that's not always a solution. Just when we finally get ARM systems useful as general purpose computers to replace x86 instead of being limited to using ARM in pathetic special-purpose systems like routers and cell phones, Microsoft swoops down and fucks everything up. As usual, Microsoft is here using their abusive powers to wreck the day.
Why the downmods? Yeah, maybe the AC was just trolling, but his overall point I actually agree with. If anything, it should've been modded +1 "Funny" for the "fuck themselves in the god damn ear" part.
I just installed Linux Mint and I love it. There is no way i would recommend it to someone who wasn't already comfortable with Linux though.
I've got to the point now where I don't strongly "recommend" any Linux distribution to people, mostly because I don't want to be their ongoing PC tech support guy. I still advocate it though. At the same time, I have long since developed a hatred toward Apple and will never recommend an Apple computer of any kind. And to make matters worse, I will no longer recommend Windows... Windows 8 and Microsoft's continuing assholish behavior destroyed any chances of that. If asked for help getting a new computer, at this point I would probably recommend *against* both Microsoft and Apple, and basically just say "sorry, you're on your own."
I despise what Ubuntu has become, yet it's still better than what the other "commercial" competitors have to offer. So I'd probably lightly "recommend" a System76 machine, and in fact that's probably what I would buy myself at this point and just wipe the drives and install some other distro. The problem is, most people I know buy their computers at Wal-Mart or some other major store and want to play the latest stupid MMORPG, so... well, have at it. Enjoy Windows 8. I'm a fan of Linux and BSD (Android, not so much due to its typical locked down nature), but seriously... I'm done recommending anything at this point.
The state of computing is truly pathetic these days.
So Microsoft finally admits it. Windows 8 and the Metro UI is a failure on traditional desktop computers. And not only is Microsoft not at fault in any way for creating such a bad Frankenstein OS, according to them the OEMs are to blame for not completely transforming their business overnight to tiny touchscreens and pissing off all of their customers who want to do real work with real keyboards, mice and decent sized monitors.
Wait... what? How the fuck did they pull that out of their asses? Seriously? Did they really not expect almost everyone to revolt against their hybrid from hell? News flash to Microsoft: Release something that sucks and people will want nothing to do with it.
I was being semi-sarcastic about being disappointed that Pluto was demoted; although serious that it was... bizarre, to say the least, that what I learned all along was wrong. To be honest, I always thought Pluto was a very boring object, certainly not as interesting as the gas giants, and didn't really fit in. But I remember reading about Eris and Makemake and whatever else, and thought, "whoopty do, another Pluto... boring." I actually didn't read much into it, but your explanation seems to paint the history pretty clearly.
I don't know why they didn't just name one of the damn things "Planet X" just to shut up all the sci-fi conspiracy theorists who use that name to make shit up and claim it's the end of the world or something. Then again, I guess they'd just claim the scientists are wrong, that it's not the "real" Planet X, or make up some new name.
If you believe anything you read just because the person claims it to be a scientific fact, then that's your fault--not science. Don't just believe everyone you hear, that would be a good place to start.
If something cannot be successfully proven or is in fact proven to be bullshit, then it is discarded as such. That is what is good about science. It's also really weird when you grew up interested in astronomy being taught and passing tests in school of the "nine planets" and all of a sudden there's eight. Poor little Pluto.:(
Fair enough... I guess stability and reliability may be a problem (certainly was on my old POS Netgear, but my WRT54GL runs like a dream). My connection is not very high speed, so I guess I don't have to worry about even my aging router being able to catch up with it--but with all the power consumer-level equipment is packed with these days I'd be surprised if the latest routers couldn't keep up with very fast connections. As for features... much of that is in DD-WRT and Tomato and easily accessible. Honestly, the biggest problem I've noticed with it is the speed of its [megabit] Ethernet ports... but I don't normally have two machines wired to it and sending large files back and forth, so for now that's not even a big deal.
I fucking swear, seriously... if you have something that is confidential that you absolutely must tell someone, meet them in private and tell them. Physically. Don't rely on telephones, cellular phones or even the Internet at all if it's that fucking important that no one eavesdrops on your discussion. Most of us either aren't as god damn paranoid as you, or just avoid talking about any "illegal" activities on communications services controlled by a third party. Simple.
What exactly is it lacking? Or do you just like to justify your own outrageously expensive "enterprise class" router purchases by slamming the common "consumer class" products?
I seriously would like to know if I'm actually missing anything of major importance, because my modded WRT54GL seems to be satisfying my own needs quite well over the years.
My Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware, overclocked to 250 MHz and sporting two 7dBi hi-gain antennas is awesome.
My old Netgear router, on the other hand, was a piece of shit... couldn't be modded, shitty performance, unreliable connection, you name it. Sold that thing as soon as I got my Linksys years ago, and I never regretted it.
Fair enough... a decade or maybe a decade and a half later, depending on time you go by. From what you said:
"Blind typing was invented as early as the typewriter was."
That sounded as if you meant "at the same time." Same time period, yeah, but at least a decade later. Either way, that's a decent amount of time, but after a couple of centuries I guess it doesn't seem like much.
RPM hell, also known generically as "dependency hell." Again, dependency resolution is a part of the package management system, not the package format itself. You should be slamming either the distro's sub-par repositories for not containing everything you need, and/or its pathetic dependency resolution (or put another way, lack thereof). I wouldn't blame that on RPM. The damn things could be zipped up for all I care and they'd probably still work if the rest of the package management tools are good and the repository is working correctly.
Do you have the same definition of touch typing that I do?
Resting four fingers of each hand on the proper home keys in the home row, moving them as needed to hit other keys, and returning them back to their home positions? That is the proper method of touch typing.
Or is "blind typing" typing using *any* method with your eyes closed?
QWERTY: Patent filed 1867. Patent sold to Remington in 1873. Became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878.
Touch typing: "Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing in 1888." and... "Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing. On July 25, 1888, McGurrin, who was reportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Traub (operating Caligraph with eight-finger method) in a typing contest held in Cincinnati. The results were displayed on the front pages of many newspapers. McGurrin won US$500 (equivalent to $11,400 in 2007 USD) and popularized the new typing method."
I didn't feel like scouring the web for all this information again so I just went to the Wikipedia articles for QWERTY and touch typing, but I have seen these basic facts repeated at several sites through Google searches. But the fact is, no matter what small changes or interpretations of the story you might find from article to article, the dates don't lie. The QWERTY layout was not designed for touch typing, and the various other facts on its design back this up. I have yet to see an article that says touch typing existed before the QWERTY layout... remember, that's the layout that popularized typewriters in the first place, being the layout that the first successful typewriters used. Advanced typing techniques can't just be discovered without a keyboard to figure them out on.
Would you discriminate against people who are completely incapable of touch typing the standard QWERTY layout, yet could type on a Dvorak keyboard or some other minority layout?
This GM bullshit is not anywhere near as safe and fully studied as people believe it is. If you believe it is, you're delusional. It's shit like this that should make people realize that what they were told to believe is a lie. It's got a long way to go--and so do the laws, to help us prevent putting this unnatural garbage into our bodies.
To all the farmers who have bought into Monsanto's claims just for their own greedy purposes at the expense, I just have one thing to say: Fuck you. Too bad they're probably too low-tech to even read Slashdot in the first place, so no doubt anyone who chose Monsanto as their supplier sure as hell doesn't understand the science behind genetic engineering.
Me too, because I don't plan on touching any FAT file systems with a ten foot pole if I can help it. It's bad enough portable systems like cameras and phones often require it; I get my data off of those systems ASAP and on a more sane file system, first chance I get. I have already tried externally formatting my Android phone's SD card as ext2 with no success... it would be nice if ext2 and UFS were supported by these things.
Android... the Linux that can't even support its own native file system.
I tend to use the package repository most of the time, not install packages directly, so I don't know what your point is. Even with openSUSE I have managed to install certain packages with minimal to no trouble (Opera, Chrome). I think the real problem is the repositories themselves, not the package format.
That said... I do prefer Debian's and even Ubuntu's system, but that is more due to the fact that both of their repositories have nearly everything I can think of. And also the fact that I know the Debian command line tools better, and like the Synaptic GUI.
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It is only subjective to a point. The problem is, there is no neutral ground... just the extremes of "you fucking pathetic, weak, filthy criminal, die by my hand!" and "meh... you're a corporation with a lot of money and good lawyers, we'll let it slide if you pay us ten grand."
They use their power to crush the weak (poor) to gain publicity, and the money talks for rich and famous fucks. There is no fucking "justice" in the current so-called United States "justice system." None at all.
With your view of good or bad, right or wrong, crime or no crime... you're forgetting one little thing. Relativity. Stealing a single candy bar from an already heavily profiting candy store is not the same as murdering someone, and should therefore have a more relaxed--dare I say it, sane--punishment.
Unfortunately, if you have a Windows 8/RT ARM-based system, disabling Secure Boot cannot be done... so that's not always a solution. Just when we finally get ARM systems useful as general purpose computers to replace x86 instead of being limited to using ARM in pathetic special-purpose systems like routers and cell phones, Microsoft swoops down and fucks everything up. As usual, Microsoft is here using their abusive powers to wreck the day.
Why the downmods? Yeah, maybe the AC was just trolling, but his overall point I actually agree with. If anything, it should've been modded +1 "Funny" for the "fuck themselves in the god damn ear" part.
I just installed Linux Mint and I love it. There is no way i would recommend it to someone who wasn't already comfortable with Linux though.
I've got to the point now where I don't strongly "recommend" any Linux distribution to people, mostly because I don't want to be their ongoing PC tech support guy. I still advocate it though. At the same time, I have long since developed a hatred toward Apple and will never recommend an Apple computer of any kind. And to make matters worse, I will no longer recommend Windows... Windows 8 and Microsoft's continuing assholish behavior destroyed any chances of that. If asked for help getting a new computer, at this point I would probably recommend *against* both Microsoft and Apple, and basically just say "sorry, you're on your own."
I despise what Ubuntu has become, yet it's still better than what the other "commercial" competitors have to offer. So I'd probably lightly "recommend" a System76 machine, and in fact that's probably what I would buy myself at this point and just wipe the drives and install some other distro. The problem is, most people I know buy their computers at Wal-Mart or some other major store and want to play the latest stupid MMORPG, so... well, have at it. Enjoy Windows 8. I'm a fan of Linux and BSD (Android, not so much due to its typical locked down nature), but seriously... I'm done recommending anything at this point.
The state of computing is truly pathetic these days.
So Microsoft finally admits it. Windows 8 and the Metro UI is a failure on traditional desktop computers. And not only is Microsoft not at fault in any way for creating such a bad Frankenstein OS, according to them the OEMs are to blame for not completely transforming their business overnight to tiny touchscreens and pissing off all of their customers who want to do real work with real keyboards, mice and decent sized monitors.
Wait... what? How the fuck did they pull that out of their asses? Seriously? Did they really not expect almost everyone to revolt against their hybrid from hell? News flash to Microsoft: Release something that sucks and people will want nothing to do with it.
I was being semi-sarcastic about being disappointed that Pluto was demoted; although serious that it was... bizarre, to say the least, that what I learned all along was wrong. To be honest, I always thought Pluto was a very boring object, certainly not as interesting as the gas giants, and didn't really fit in. But I remember reading about Eris and Makemake and whatever else, and thought, "whoopty do, another Pluto... boring." I actually didn't read much into it, but your explanation seems to paint the history pretty clearly.
I don't know why they didn't just name one of the damn things "Planet X" just to shut up all the sci-fi conspiracy theorists who use that name to make shit up and claim it's the end of the world or something. Then again, I guess they'd just claim the scientists are wrong, that it's not the "real" Planet X, or make up some new name.
If you believe anything you read just because the person claims it to be a scientific fact, then that's your fault--not science. Don't just believe everyone you hear, that would be a good place to start.
If something cannot be successfully proven or is in fact proven to be bullshit, then it is discarded as such. That is what is good about science. It's also really weird when you grew up interested in astronomy being taught and passing tests in school of the "nine planets" and all of a sudden there's eight. Poor little Pluto. :(
Simple: It snuck in the back door.
Ten years down the line, does it run on Linux yet?
Just another in a long list of Microsoft/Windows security fails. Big shocker.
Fair enough... I guess stability and reliability may be a problem (certainly was on my old POS Netgear, but my WRT54GL runs like a dream). My connection is not very high speed, so I guess I don't have to worry about even my aging router being able to catch up with it--but with all the power consumer-level equipment is packed with these days I'd be surprised if the latest routers couldn't keep up with very fast connections. As for features... much of that is in DD-WRT and Tomato and easily accessible. Honestly, the biggest problem I've noticed with it is the speed of its [megabit] Ethernet ports... but I don't normally have two machines wired to it and sending large files back and forth, so for now that's not even a big deal.
I fucking swear, seriously... if you have something that is confidential that you absolutely must tell someone, meet them in private and tell them. Physically. Don't rely on telephones, cellular phones or even the Internet at all if it's that fucking important that no one eavesdrops on your discussion. Most of us either aren't as god damn paranoid as you, or just avoid talking about any "illegal" activities on communications services controlled by a third party. Simple.
What exactly is it lacking? Or do you just like to justify your own outrageously expensive "enterprise class" router purchases by slamming the common "consumer class" products?
I seriously would like to know if I'm actually missing anything of major importance, because my modded WRT54GL seems to be satisfying my own needs quite well over the years.
My Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware, overclocked to 250 MHz and sporting two 7dBi hi-gain antennas is awesome.
My old Netgear router, on the other hand, was a piece of shit... couldn't be modded, shitty performance, unreliable connection, you name it. Sold that thing as soon as I got my Linksys years ago, and I never regretted it.
Fair enough... a decade or maybe a decade and a half later, depending on time you go by. From what you said:
"Blind typing was invented as early as the typewriter was."
That sounded as if you meant "at the same time." Same time period, yeah, but at least a decade later. Either way, that's a decent amount of time, but after a couple of centuries I guess it doesn't seem like much.
RPM hell, also known generically as "dependency hell." Again, dependency resolution is a part of the package management system, not the package format itself. You should be slamming either the distro's sub-par repositories for not containing everything you need, and/or its pathetic dependency resolution (or put another way, lack thereof). I wouldn't blame that on RPM. The damn things could be zipped up for all I care and they'd probably still work if the rest of the package management tools are good and the repository is working correctly.
Do you have the same definition of touch typing that I do?
Resting four fingers of each hand on the proper home keys in the home row, moving them as needed to hit other keys, and returning them back to their home positions? That is the proper method of touch typing.
Or is "blind typing" typing using *any* method with your eyes closed?
QWERTY: Patent filed 1867. Patent sold to Remington in 1873. Became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878.
Touch typing: "Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing in 1888."
and...
"Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing. On July 25, 1888, McGurrin, who was reportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, won a decisive victory over Louis Traub (operating Caligraph with eight-finger method) in a typing contest held in Cincinnati. The results were displayed on the front pages of many newspapers. McGurrin won US$500 (equivalent to $11,400 in 2007 USD) and popularized the new typing method."
I didn't feel like scouring the web for all this information again so I just went to the Wikipedia articles for QWERTY and touch typing, but I have seen these basic facts repeated at several sites through Google searches. But the fact is, no matter what small changes or interpretations of the story you might find from article to article, the dates don't lie. The QWERTY layout was not designed for touch typing, and the various other facts on its design back this up. I have yet to see an article that says touch typing existed before the QWERTY layout... remember, that's the layout that popularized typewriters in the first place, being the layout that the first successful typewriters used. Advanced typing techniques can't just be discovered without a keyboard to figure them out on.
And avoid doing "healthy" things that make your heart beat more and faster, like walking.
Would you discriminate against people who are completely incapable of touch typing the standard QWERTY layout, yet could type on a Dvorak keyboard or some other minority layout?
This GM bullshit is not anywhere near as safe and fully studied as people believe it is. If you believe it is, you're delusional. It's shit like this that should make people realize that what they were told to believe is a lie. It's got a long way to go--and so do the laws, to help us prevent putting this unnatural garbage into our bodies.
To all the farmers who have bought into Monsanto's claims just for their own greedy purposes at the expense, I just have one thing to say: Fuck you. Too bad they're probably too low-tech to even read Slashdot in the first place, so no doubt anyone who chose Monsanto as their supplier sure as hell doesn't understand the science behind genetic engineering.
Me too, because I don't plan on touching any FAT file systems with a ten foot pole if I can help it. It's bad enough portable systems like cameras and phones often require it; I get my data off of those systems ASAP and on a more sane file system, first chance I get. I have already tried externally formatting my Android phone's SD card as ext2 with no success... it would be nice if ext2 and UFS were supported by these things.
Android... the Linux that can't even support its own native file system.
Both. WE'RE FUCKlNG DOOMED!!!
So I guess the real way to solve global warming is universal cooling. Hmmm.
Obviously anyone who makes money off their shitty file system.
I tend to use the package repository most of the time, not install packages directly, so I don't know what your point is. Even with openSUSE I have managed to install certain packages with minimal to no trouble (Opera, Chrome). I think the real problem is the repositories themselves, not the package format.
That said... I do prefer Debian's and even Ubuntu's system, but that is more due to the fact that both of their repositories have nearly everything I can think of. And also the fact that I know the Debian command line tools better, and like the Synaptic GUI.