Anyone who lives or works in a city knows having diesel exhaust blowing in your face is not comparable to fucking smoking tires... I thought they were going to take the power plant angle but this is nuts.
As much as i love messing around with emulators. It's much harder and more interesting when someone gets another OS working on the bare metal, obviously not gona happen with windows. I remember when there was a tiny linux port for my 3rd gen ipod, could play Doom2 on it and type in the cli with the wheel onion network style:P it was awesome... it also added a new feature which keeps your pocket uncomfortably warm.
Other sources say the drone struck the plane first though. Doesn't count if the drone started it.
I know you are joking but, any other scenario would be a feat of engineering, a drone flying as fast as a 747 or a 747 being able to generate lift at the speed of a drone.
Cause everyone likes car analogies:P A car rear ending a toy car on a motorway at 70 Mph makes it the toy cars fault for being on the motorway, there just isn't an equivalent law for air-planes, although i'm pretty sure the pilot of a biplane being in the flightpath of a jumbo-jet is gona get in trouble in a similar way to a moped on a motorway.
Thus, while I concur with the judge's ruling that I doubt this prisoner has a "serious" religion, the actual judgment standard is pretty arbitrary and doesn't hold up to the kind of deep logical scrutiny we usually demand of legal opinions.
Arbitrary is the first word that came to mind when i read the summary, and I think your paragraph here nicely sums it up. Sometimes the method is more important than the result, this is a judge after all... also i enjoyed your satire of the big book of satire:P
Providers of communications services and products should protect United States persons’ privacy with strong data security while still complying with court orders and other legal requirements.
They don't seem to understand at all that security is synonymous with encryption and is impossible over an open network without it, the people who wrote this probably just think in terms of storage access and communications as a direct line... In other words they don't know what an internet is.
To claim that Darwin does not have BSD roots is foolish.
Foolish is a strange choice of words but "wrong" i would agree, it is however definitely annoying to argue with straw men... I never claimed Darwin does not have FreeBSD roots, try to actually read my last paragraph.
How about doing audio work with OSS with no ALSA or PulseAudio.
What about games that link to these APIs? What about apps where the makefile doesn't use BSD specific things to compile right?
I prefer FreeBSD. I am just saying if you ask any BSD maintainer they can vouch for doing lots of coding to get something like gnome to compile. Apache maybe mute but SDL games is another matter.
FreeBSD project does more than write a kernel
The horrible complex layer that is PulseAudio exists because of the multiple ways sound works on different linux distros including OSS, i'm not an audio expert but I'd geuss that would mean using OSS instead of ALSA would be fine unless a game is attempting to use ALSA directly. For things that there are no existing layers for i guess there are two options... make it work natively with the FreeBSD kernel or make a translation layer.
I've read about how much effort is involved porting very linux orientated software to work natively with FreeBSD is, but I don't believe this is the same thing, they are mainly using the kernel... they did say they are using Ubuntu userland etc. FreeBSD already has a linux binary compatibility layer which seems like a pretty good starting point to just running a what is essentially linux system with a FreeBSD kernel, in which case the linux packages can keep their linuxisms and run without modification.
Linux despite all it's faults and worts with things like SystemD and it's more wild development has excellent desktop features.
I don't think anyone can argue with that, but after a while the madness can get to you. Ubuntu is the "just works" desktop of the OSS world, and admittedly using a FreeBSD kernel would remove much of that aspect due to hardware support... But i'm for anything that could possibly improve the state of hardware support for FreeBSD even if i don't use it:P
Who said a desktop for computer illiterate people... no i wouldn't recommend FreeBSD as a desktop for someone who doesn't code who isn't a developer who doesn't know what a command line is are you fucking crazy?... Developers want desktops too, and the sane ones don't want windows. However as a counter argument, there's no reason why someone can't take a minimal BSD system and add some DE and automatic configuration, graphical package managers etc like Ubuntu does to make it usable for the masses, that's PC-BSD.
SunOS was BSD based, they RIPPED IT OUT, and dropped in System V when they re-branded as Solaris
Windows has more BSD code in it than Solaris
Looool! wow... Calm down, not only have you missed my point and angrily agreed with me... You're also not as "right" as you think you are, because AT&T integrated parts of BSD into UNIX before Sun rebased their system on unix, so yeah... they swapped BSD for some UNIX and BSD, not that it makes much difference... like i said there are bits of BSD everywhere, but much of the other distinct OSs are still vastly different.
If you are debating about BSD's pedigree on the desktop in general, I refer you to Darwin / OS X.
This misinformation is too damn common: Darwin is BSD as much as UNIX is BSD as much as Solaris is BSD, although "Darwin"/NEXTStep/OSX took various old bits of BSD userland at various points in time they also took various bits of GNU userland and Mach which became the XNU kernel... Not to mention all of their own extended development of their kernel and all the other technologies on top of that system 20+ years ago before it even became the basis of OS X today.
All sorts of things are BSD because it's good reusable code that gets used for all sorts of systems, that doesn't automatically make OS X anything like equivalent to running a full BSD desktop on the same hardware.... and that's without even getting into the GUI and everything a normal user interacts with.
FreeBSD is a server oriented OS as far as I am concerned
Posting from FreeBSD 10.3 on my macbook... seems like a pretty good desktop to me, but it's a personal choice, so yes "as far as you are concerned". The only major barrier for any OS being an easy to use desktop is hardware support, anything which isn't super popular will have this issue especially where open source drivers aren't available for porting.
You need to look up the Luby's incident in Kileen, Texas.
Your right !!... If only guns weren't so readily available he would have resorted to using far less efficient make shift weapons that people had a chance to defend them selves against, and he might have only gotten through 3 people max before being disabled rather than 50, how insightful of you!
I know guns are uber popular to some Americans but the whole "my right to defend myself" excuse is such BS, if that is truly the reason then why don't you ban guns and buy body armour instead. Everyone without brain damage can understand how even "certified" gun ownership will lead to an increase in availability of guns on the back market, and "certified" people are humans and can decide to be immoral too... what part of learning how to use a gun safely stops you from deciding to go crazy and kill some people because life treated you like shit.
Sounds like FreeBSD's linux binary compatibility... There is no actual Linux kernel of course, just a replication of the interfaces translated for the windows kernel. The sensationalist claims of "because it is Linux" is definitely BS unless the opposite is happening and Microsoft is writing a windows binary compatibility layer for the Linux kernel (aka WINE).
... All of this stuff was fun once. I would spend DAYS getting it just the way I wanted it, and then some new release would come out I wanted, which wouldn't install because I had changed stuff so that the installer got confused...
I know what you mean, and i'm definitely not a fan of having to spend hours configuring things, i'm not one of those people who wants to "get everything just how i want it" sacrificing hours or days in the process... however i am a fan of being minimal, not because of hard disk space or anything... i'm happy to install away loads of space, my problem is i don't want to crowd my workspace... i'm perfectly happy running a usable tiling window manager and dmenu and that's it... i get fed up of big desktop UIs full of crap that usually annoys me... and if I need to install a new system pretty much all i need to worry about for my UI is to install two packages, maybe copy one config but the defaults are pretty good for i3... i like well thought out defaults, makes deployment quick.
The problem with any open source OS is that your experience with it can be highly subjective depending on the hardware. Many including myself have had the opposite experience to you and also mixed - all depending on hardware... The important thing is to not be an absolutist jerk based on purely your own anecdotal evidence like yourself and realise that the world is not that black and white.
I use both various Linux distros and FreeBSD, they all have their advantages and disadvantages, and they all work with mixed results on different hardware, one thing many people like about FreeBSD is the concept of a base system that's not excessively minimal, not bloated and builds easily... but for FreeBSD like any system that's not in the popular desktop spotlight - will have poor device support on systems like laptops, this only gets better with popularity, which is why Linux is usually a far easier experience once the basic system can run... For anyone who intends to use FreeBSD on a laptop and has bothered to visit the forums and device support page, they will know to choose hardware very carefully... or if sticking with existing and unideal hardware to be prepared to get stuck into messing around with drivers, just like Linux pre2000. My most recent experience with FreeBSD is on a 8 year old macbook pro, this machine has pretty terrible hardware and various linux distros i've tried on it are very unstable - oddly FreeBSD seems quite happy on it, but like I said device support sucks, so I have to mess with kernel modules and recompile to get little details like backlight control to work, luckily this process is actually quite a pleasant experience on FreeBSD... where as this would probably already be done for you on ubuntu.
I quite like ubuntu when used as a base system via a minimal install... doing xorg yourself and choosing your own UI is not painful at all these days as xorg.conf is automatic for pretty much everything... dual GPU can require a few manual lines to point the display server in the right direction but that's way better than it used to be.
dmenu instead of unity launcher, then pick your window manager e.g i3wm... done.
If Javascript programmers wrote in assembly they'd probably end up with code that's even slower than Javascript. Thus their assembly-level performance might be very very slow.
Likewise If all C programmers wrote in assembly they'd usually end up with code that's even slower than C, i'm sure a higher portion of C programmers are less likely to write completely shit assembly but you are really missing the point... The idea is to define a type of assembly language that browsers can compile appropriately on their platform and then add appropriate annotations to JavaScript to compile into it... or just use some other high level language, not to turn JavaScript into an assembly language.
Is this true? is that the law in USA?... If death makes private information easier to legally obtain, doesn't that make it very dangerous for the people still alive with private information? it's far easier to make people dead and then legally obtain their secrets than convince the courts that they have no right to privacy while alive.
Quite simply – if people don't pay in some way for content, then that content will eventually no longer exist And that's as true for the latest piece of journalism as it is for the new album from Muse.
Yes... and protecting adverts with legislation and vilification of users will prevent sites from innovating and finding better ways for users to pay for content.
If record companies forced users to pay for music with tractors as a currency, people would quickly get fed up trying to find tractors to exchange for CDs and mp3s. The record companies then have two options: 1. go out of business, 2. find a better model for funding.... if you didn't guess already, adverts are tractors.
I can also stick with a factual analogy with music: Muse for instance gets a large part of it's funding from concerts, so an entirely feasible business model could be to give their music away for free for non-commercial use and then sell concert tickets... I wonder how sites could indirectly profit from giving away free content... That's the discussion that needs to be had.
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With a different OS of course... now how sad am I Tim Cook? with my non freezing non retina over 5yr old MBP.
Anyone who lives or works in a city knows having diesel exhaust blowing in your face is not comparable to fucking smoking tires... I thought they were going to take the power plant angle but this is nuts.
I guess I must be an illegal alien then.
The torus on your mug is for your finger, not it's content... otherwise it would gradually shit out your coffee onto your lap.
This is the kind of BS that makes me not read news papers... Now I'm starting to feel like i don't want to read slashdot either.
It's windows 311 not 3.11 ... haven't you been keeping up with their exponential release cycle?
As much as i love messing around with emulators. It's much harder and more interesting when someone gets another OS working on the bare metal, obviously not gona happen with windows. I remember when there was a tiny linux port for my 3rd gen ipod, could play Doom2 on it and type in the cli with the wheel onion network style :P it was awesome... it also added a new feature which keeps your pocket uncomfortably warm.
Other sources say the drone struck the plane first though. Doesn't count if the drone started it.
I know you are joking but, any other scenario would be a feat of engineering, a drone flying as fast as a 747 or a 747 being able to generate lift at the speed of a drone.
Cause everyone likes car analogies :P A car rear ending a toy car on a motorway at 70 Mph makes it the toy cars fault for being on the motorway, there just isn't an equivalent law for air-planes, although i'm pretty sure the pilot of a biplane being in the flightpath of a jumbo-jet is gona get in trouble in a similar way to a moped on a motorway.
Thus, while I concur with the judge's ruling that I doubt this prisoner has a "serious" religion, the actual judgment standard is pretty arbitrary and doesn't hold up to the kind of deep logical scrutiny we usually demand of legal opinions.
Arbitrary is the first word that came to mind when i read the summary, and I think your paragraph here nicely sums it up. Sometimes the method is more important than the result, this is a judge after all... also i enjoyed your satire of the big book of satire :P
Providers of communications services and products should protect United States persons’ privacy with strong data security while still complying with court orders and other legal requirements.
They don't seem to understand at all that security is synonymous with encryption and is impossible over an open network without it, the people who wrote this probably just think in terms of storage access and communications as a direct line... In other words they don't know what an internet is.
To claim that Darwin does not have BSD roots is foolish.
Foolish is a strange choice of words but "wrong" i would agree, it is however definitely annoying to argue with straw men... I never claimed Darwin does not have FreeBSD roots, try to actually read my last paragraph.
How about doing audio work with OSS with no ALSA or PulseAudio.
What about games that link to these APIs? What about apps where the makefile doesn't use BSD specific things to compile right?
I prefer FreeBSD. I am just saying if you ask any BSD maintainer they can vouch for doing lots of coding to get something like gnome to compile. Apache maybe mute but SDL games is another matter.
FreeBSD project does more than write a kernel
The horrible complex layer that is PulseAudio exists because of the multiple ways sound works on different linux distros including OSS, i'm not an audio expert but I'd geuss that would mean using OSS instead of ALSA would be fine unless a game is attempting to use ALSA directly. For things that there are no existing layers for i guess there are two options... make it work natively with the FreeBSD kernel or make a translation layer.
I've read about how much effort is involved porting very linux orientated software to work natively with FreeBSD is, but I don't believe this is the same thing, they are mainly using the kernel... they did say they are using Ubuntu userland etc. FreeBSD already has a linux binary compatibility layer which seems like a pretty good starting point to just running a what is essentially linux system with a FreeBSD kernel, in which case the linux packages can keep their linuxisms and run without modification.
Linux despite all it's faults and worts with things like SystemD and it's more wild development has excellent desktop features.
I don't think anyone can argue with that, but after a while the madness can get to you. Ubuntu is the "just works" desktop of the OSS world, and admittedly using a FreeBSD kernel would remove much of that aspect due to hardware support... But i'm for anything that could possibly improve the state of hardware support for FreeBSD even if i don't use it :P
Who said a desktop for computer illiterate people... no i wouldn't recommend FreeBSD as a desktop for someone who doesn't code who isn't a developer who doesn't know what a command line is are you fucking crazy?... Developers want desktops too, and the sane ones don't want windows. However as a counter argument, there's no reason why someone can't take a minimal BSD system and add some DE and automatic configuration, graphical package managers etc like Ubuntu does to make it usable for the masses, that's PC-BSD.
as much as Solaris is BSD
FUCKING IDIOT
SunOS was BSD based, they RIPPED IT OUT, and dropped in System V when they re-branded as Solaris
Windows has more BSD code in it than Solaris
Looool! wow... Calm down, not only have you missed my point and angrily agreed with me... You're also not as "right" as you think you are, because AT&T integrated parts of BSD into UNIX before Sun rebased their system on unix, so yeah... they swapped BSD for some UNIX and BSD, not that it makes much difference... like i said there are bits of BSD everywhere, but much of the other distinct OSs are still vastly different.
If you are debating about BSD's pedigree on the desktop in general, I refer you to Darwin / OS X.
This misinformation is too damn common: Darwin is BSD as much as UNIX is BSD as much as Solaris is BSD, although "Darwin"/NEXTStep/OSX took various old bits of BSD userland at various points in time they also took various bits of GNU userland and Mach which became the XNU kernel... Not to mention all of their own extended development of their kernel and all the other technologies on top of that system 20+ years ago before it even became the basis of OS X today.
Sitation: https://www.levenez.com/unix/ (huge unixy inheritance tree)
All sorts of things are BSD because it's good reusable code that gets used for all sorts of systems, that doesn't automatically make OS X anything like equivalent to running a full BSD desktop on the same hardware.... and that's without even getting into the GUI and everything a normal user interacts with.
FreeBSD is a server oriented OS as far as I am concerned
Posting from FreeBSD 10.3 on my macbook... seems like a pretty good desktop to me, but it's a personal choice, so yes "as far as you are concerned". The only major barrier for any OS being an easy to use desktop is hardware support, anything which isn't super popular will have this issue especially where open source drivers aren't available for porting.
In terms of number or quantity?
If it's the former then I retract my question as I am outnumbered :P
You need to look up the Luby's incident in Kileen, Texas.
Your right !!... If only guns weren't so readily available he would have resorted to using far less efficient make shift weapons that people had a chance to defend them selves against, and he might have only gotten through 3 people max before being disabled rather than 50, how insightful of you!
I know guns are uber popular to some Americans but the whole "my right to defend myself" excuse is such BS, if that is truly the reason then why don't you ban guns and buy body armour instead. Everyone without brain damage can understand how even "certified" gun ownership will lead to an increase in availability of guns on the back market, and "certified" people are humans and can decide to be immoral too... what part of learning how to use a gun safely stops you from deciding to go crazy and kill some people because life treated you like shit.
Sounds like FreeBSD's linux binary compatibility... There is no actual Linux kernel of course, just a replication of the interfaces translated for the windows kernel. The sensationalist claims of "because it is Linux" is definitely BS unless the opposite is happening and Microsoft is writing a windows binary compatibility layer for the Linux kernel (aka WINE).
... All of this stuff was fun once. I would spend DAYS getting it just the way I wanted it, and then some new release would come out I wanted, which wouldn't install because I had changed stuff so that the installer got confused...
I know what you mean, and i'm definitely not a fan of having to spend hours configuring things, i'm not one of those people who wants to "get everything just how i want it" sacrificing hours or days in the process... however i am a fan of being minimal, not because of hard disk space or anything... i'm happy to install away loads of space, my problem is i don't want to crowd my workspace... i'm perfectly happy running a usable tiling window manager and dmenu and that's it... i get fed up of big desktop UIs full of crap that usually annoys me... and if I need to install a new system pretty much all i need to worry about for my UI is to install two packages, maybe copy one config but the defaults are pretty good for i3... i like well thought out defaults, makes deployment quick.
The problem with any open source OS is that your experience with it can be highly subjective depending on the hardware. Many including myself have had the opposite experience to you and also mixed - all depending on hardware... The important thing is to not be an absolutist jerk based on purely your own anecdotal evidence like yourself and realise that the world is not that black and white.
I use both various Linux distros and FreeBSD, they all have their advantages and disadvantages, and they all work with mixed results on different hardware, one thing many people like about FreeBSD is the concept of a base system that's not excessively minimal, not bloated and builds easily... but for FreeBSD like any system that's not in the popular desktop spotlight - will have poor device support on systems like laptops, this only gets better with popularity, which is why Linux is usually a far easier experience once the basic system can run... For anyone who intends to use FreeBSD on a laptop and has bothered to visit the forums and device support page, they will know to choose hardware very carefully... or if sticking with existing and unideal hardware to be prepared to get stuck into messing around with drivers, just like Linux pre2000. My most recent experience with FreeBSD is on a 8 year old macbook pro, this machine has pretty terrible hardware and various linux distros i've tried on it are very unstable - oddly FreeBSD seems quite happy on it, but like I said device support sucks, so I have to mess with kernel modules and recompile to get little details like backlight control to work, luckily this process is actually quite a pleasant experience on FreeBSD... where as this would probably already be done for you on ubuntu.
I quite like ubuntu when used as a base system via a minimal install... doing xorg yourself and choosing your own UI is not painful at all these days as xorg.conf is automatic for pretty much everything... dual GPU can require a few manual lines to point the display server in the right direction but that's way better than it used to be.
dmenu instead of unity launcher, then pick your window manager e.g i3wm... done.
If Javascript programmers wrote in assembly they'd probably end up with code that's even slower than Javascript. Thus their assembly-level performance might be very very slow.
Likewise If all C programmers wrote in assembly they'd usually end up with code that's even slower than C, i'm sure a higher portion of C programmers are less likely to write completely shit assembly but you are really missing the point... The idea is to define a type of assembly language that browsers can compile appropriately on their platform and then add appropriate annotations to JavaScript to compile into it... or just use some other high level language, not to turn JavaScript into an assembly language.
dead men don't have a right to privacy
Is this true? is that the law in USA? ... If death makes private information easier to legally obtain, doesn't that make it very dangerous for the people still alive with private information? it's far easier to make people dead and then legally obtain their secrets than convince the courts that they have no right to privacy while alive.
Quite simply – if people don't pay in some way for content, then that content will eventually no longer exist And that's as true for the latest piece of journalism as it is for the new album from Muse.
Yes... and protecting adverts with legislation and vilification of users will prevent sites from innovating and finding better ways for users to pay for content.
If record companies forced users to pay for music with tractors as a currency, people would quickly get fed up trying to find tractors to exchange for CDs and mp3s. The record companies then have two options: 1. go out of business, 2. find a better model for funding.... if you didn't guess already, adverts are tractors.
I can also stick with a factual analogy with music: Muse for instance gets a large part of it's funding from concerts, so an entirely feasible business model could be to give their music away for free for non-commercial use and then sell concert tickets... I wonder how sites could indirectly profit from giving away free content... That's the discussion that needs to be had.
NO MORE TRACTORS!!