I think terms like theft are a little over the top when we're talking about intentionally linking a device to a third party's download service, especially when that third party is delivering a service that barely impacts you in any negative way whatsoever.
Honestly, I'm still baffled so many people were upset about getting a few album from a popular, well respected, rock band, simply because it found its way directly onto people's devices. It's not as if it woke you up at 3am and started playing it!
There wasn't really a legacy software advantage for x86 in the Mac arena either. In fact, of the three major tablet OSes, one actually does have a bit of a legacy software advantage if run over x86. I'll go into that in a moment but first:
As far as performance goes, I got an HP Stream 8 a few months ago. It's running Windows 8.1 and has a recent Atom in it, but obviously not a top-of-the-line thing because it's a really cheap tablet, despite supporting 3G. And I have to say I have no complaints whatsoever about performance. It's running everything I throw at it at a decent speed.
Now I'd admit, mentally I'm comparing it to Android. The fastest Android device I've used was a Galaxy Nexus, and the Stream is easily smoother and more responsive than that. It may well be the difference is, in part, Windows and Metro - I get the impression Google really doesn't understand the importance of UI responsiveness. But the truth is with the Stream I really, really, have no complaints relating to speed.
Back on x86 legacy advantages: The other issue I'd raise is that there are quite a few "tablet operating systems" that are languishing in "Not Android" land that might well do well if more hardware comes out supporting x86. The stuff Ubuntu and GNOME are trying to make work might, for example, end up turning into something very, very, powerful if they can get the UIs fixed and if a surfeit of x86 tablets comes out.
but feel free to go back to Kotaku, which came out and actually BRAGGED about how corrupt they were
No, this never happened.
ignore the chat logs of GameJournoPro, where they literally got together to formulate a response when they got caught accepting both monetary and sexual favors
No. Two members of GJP did have a discussion about whether or not reporting on the harassment campaign against Zoe Quinn might be counter productive. GamerGate/Milo spun that as the drivel you just posted.
Bonus GG points for misusing the word "literally" in classic GG fashion BTW.
(which is why no less than 13 different websites all printed the EXACT SAME ARTICLE about how "gamers are dead" within an 18 minute span of each other)
No. This never happened. There was never a post claiming "gamers are dead". An article in Gamasutra was spun by those harassing Zoe Quinn as claiming that, but was actually about the market for games widening beyond the small set of violent insular males the industry has traditionally targeted. No article was posted in 13 different websites. Several articles expressing a similar point of view to the Gamasutra piece were posted within a 24 hour period, but the Gamasutra piece and the others were responses to current events, noteably the escalation of the attacks on Zoe Quinn, which had, before the articles had been published, been labeled "Gamergate" by prominent C-list right wing actor Adam Baldwin.
I'm not even going to bother continuing here. Every single statement made in the first few sentences of your piece is an outright lie, dating back to the false narrative posted by Gamergate supporters a month or so after Baldwin's coining of the term where, at Eron Gjoni's partial prompting, the phrase "Actually it's about ethics in gaming media" became GamerGate's defense.
We know GamerGate is about harassment. Other than a small number of women journalists, none have suffered harassment, not even the one supposedly at the center of the "Quinnspiracy". Meanwhile female gamedevs, and feminists posting critiques of the gaming industry, continue, today, to receive violent threats and other abuse. From you guys.
Stop whitewashing your repulsive movement, and grow up.
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Nah, he said what happened and suggested people who don't believe him look at the evidence pointing out what persuaded him. That's a fairly normal way of arguing.
Let's be honest here: Gamergate is a hate movement. A few minutes of Googling, watching Twitter feeds, and even spending some time in KIA - the "Clean face" of GamerGate designed to lure in useful idiots, forget 8chan where the actual organization is - shows that fairly conclusively. I've delved in. I've seen major GamerGate figures in the early days promoting stories like "How to rape a woman and get away with it" and "How to break a woman". I've seen major GamerGate figures harass a woman developer who'd had the audacity to fight back against earlier harassment taunting her because her dog just died.
That's why pretty much the entire mainstream media is calling GamerGate a hate group. They're not doing it because some female gamedev had sex with them. They're calling it a hate group because it is.
You have to be a special kind of idiot to ignore the general success that HSR projects have had across the world. CAHSR isn't a perfect project, it's plagued by politics and would probably cost a fraction of the price if they didn't have to get buy in from 51% of the State.
But profitable? Why wouldn't it be? Acela Express, a relatively crappy HSR system that manages an average speed of 70mph gets half a billion dollars a year in revenues, an amount that's still increasing year-on-year. It has around 80% of the Air-Train market it serves.
There's no reason to believe that CAHSR, a faster "purer" system, wouldn't make more money than Acela Express. And the infrastructure doesn't have to be limited in use to just the four stops currently covered.
It's not perfect, but don't let perfect be the enemy of the good enough. I'd prefer a private project, but looking at the progress of the all-private All Aboard Florida in Florida, I'd say the problems with politics fucking everything up and virtually coercing good projects to do crappy things are going on there too. Texas's HSR is similarly being attacked by NIMBYs in those areas it passes through but doesn't serve. It'll be interesting to see how all three projects progress.
Problems here are that some doxxers are already public, so what do they have to lose, and there's also the risk that the putative doxxer's account has been hijacked.
Nah, he said what happened and suggested people who don't believe him look at the evidence pointing out what persuaded him. That's a fairly normal way of arguing.
Let's be honest here: Gamergate is a hate movement. A few minutes of Googling, watching Twitter feeds, and even spending some time in KIA - the "Clean face" of GamerGate designed to lure in useful idiots, forget 8chan where the actual organization is - shows that fairly conclusively. I've delved in. I've seen major GamerGate figures in the early days promoting stories like "How to rape a woman and get away with it" and "How to break a woman". I've seen major GamerGate figures harass a woman developer who'd had the audacity to fight back against earlier harassment taunting her because her dog just died.
That's why pretty much the entire mainstream media is calling GamerGate a hate group. They're not doing it because some female gamedev had sex with them. They're calling it a hate group because it is.
It's bizarre hype. The articles I've read have quoted the project leaders as claiming this is the real thing, followed by a claim that it's a small scale prototype to test the concept. Uh. OK. Not what most people would say is the "real thing", but whatever.
I'd be more enthusiastic about the project if it didn't appear to be solely a dishonest attempt to kill a high-speed rail project, by claiming an unproven, non-existent, technology that, if implemented as proposed, would only link up two of the four cities CAHSR joins, has a fraction of the capacity, would have a total travel time (that is, downtown to station to station to downtown) that's longer than CAHSR's, is "cheaper". Amazingly enough, CAHSR would cost much less if it didn't have to do those things either.
Which is a shame because I shouldn't be looking at the ugly agenda behind the project. It'd be nice to see it in isolation, as a concept that could join cities in future.
I can't speak for the French, but I've noticed the US having a lot of homeopathic crap in the children's medicines aisles of the major supermarkets and drug stores, usually with the homeopathic angle hidden in small print, and "natural", "non-drugs", "Ages 0+" and other language over the rest of it. If I didn't know what homeopathy was, I can say it'd have been highly likely I'd have bought some of this stuff while our baby was colicy, just because anything with drugs is generally marketed as unsuitable for anyone below 2-5 years old.
I'm not sure "gullible" is the right term. "Desperate" and "Lacking critical information needed to make an informed decision" is a better term. I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the 90% of pregnant French women who "use homeopathy" have no idea what homeopathy is, and are simply taking something marketed as being "safe" because it uses "natural ingredients".
So the company that trades as Sega really isn't Sega. I guess then the headline is right (isn't "Atari" actually Infogrames these days? Or has the trademark changed hands again?)
Nah, he's mostly right although stack underflow was more of a problem than stack overflow. FOR...NEXT frequently manipulated a stack in many older 1980s BASICs.
At that time, each command was executed independently of every other command. The program wasn't pre-parsed, beyond tokenization and making a note of where the line numbers were. When you executed a "FOR" statement, the location of the FOR was put on the stack, so that when you executed NEXT, it could return to that FOR statement if the loop wasn't finished.
Which means if you had a program like this:
5 ' Contrived example to draw a right angled triangle twice as high as it is long.
10 FOR I=1 TO 10
20 X=0
30 IF X=2 THEN GOTO 90
40 X=X+1
50 FOR J=1 TO 10
60 IF I=J THEN PRINT : GOTO 30
70 PRINT ".";
80 NEXT
90 NEXT
...then you'd end up with a holy mess, the program wouldn't work as expected (which in this example is fine, it's contrived, I have no idea why you'd write code this bad), largely because the NEXT statement at line 90 would be used to repeat the J loop when X=2.
Some BASICs let you name the loop variable in the NEXT statement. Some even required it. But not all. And those that didn't lead programmers to end up banging their heads over more subtle cases of the above happening.
All his assets? You know, I could have sworn that he's currently running another great big "cloud storage" operation called Mega, but presumably if all his assets were seized then that was just someone else called Kim Dotcom. Or maybe it all runs from a single $1/month VPS service. Or Amazon keeps sending out AWS bills that he doesn't pay. Or...
With phones and tablets becoming more powerful I'd rather see a convergence with an acknowledgement that the two environments need different UIs.
We've solved this problem before, it's called MVC. iOS/Mac OS X supposedly has a native MVC stack (Cocoa) but doesn't actually exploit it in any serious way (to the point you wonder why they bothered), and Microsoft seems to be wary of the concept - genuine question, but other than a stunted web framework, has Microsoft ever produced a first class MVC stack?
But in any case, what I actually want is something that has windows, scrollbars, icons, stuff you point and click on, when it's plugged into a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, that automatically switches to a tap and slide interface when you disconnect those things and just use the screen. And I'd like it to have a decent speed x86(-64) CPU and 4Gb of RAM.
And while I'm on the wishlist, if it's a decent MVC stack, it could work over the web too, which would bypass the need to have an RDP protocol.
"We", the FOSS community, could probably do this, but I don't think there's a will to do it, which is a shame.
This is an impressive display of putting words into people's mouths. You are aware there's a massive difference between someone saying "I think it'd be better if people did X and didn't do Y" and them saying "People should be forced to do X, and punished for doing Y"?
I'd say you don't understand nuance, but this isn't even at that level. It's a ludicrously over the top mis-extrapolation of someone's views. This kind of "debate", a refusal to listen to what people actually say, and attempts to make them look ridiculous by deliberately misrepresenting their views, is why we can't have nice things.
Yeah I know and was trying to make that point. The high IQ thing is a myth and has nothing to do with Asperger's, but the popular view amongst the self-diagnosed is that it's one of the two big elements, the other being anti-social (by which the self-diagnosed seem to mean "is rude to people". "I think I'm smart and I'm rude, hey, if I have this Asperger's thing I have an excuse for the latter based on the former!"
That's why I used Tourettes as a similar example (and compared nerds diagnosing themselves with Asperger's to "British people" self-diagnosing themselves as having Tourettes - which thankfully doesn't generally happen.) Contrary to myth, Tourettes is not about swearing, most sufferers don't swear (well, any more than non-sufferers.) British people don't have Tourettes any more than any other culture. The culture in the UK itself has priorities and foci that lead to swearing being more acceptable than it is in, say, most of the US. That's the explanation, not a neurological condition that doesn't actually have anything to do with swearing in the first place.
Well, you can't blame them. As we all know, Aspergers is a condition characterized by having poor social skills, and having a high IQ*, which means many here know without even needing to consult a doctor that they have the condition.
Likewise, I'm British. So I don't need a fucking doctor to tell me that I have Tourettes.
* This is actually complete bollocks, but that's the point: Tourettes has nothing to do with swearing either.
Uh, they don't? Most gays and transexuals I've met would love it if people stopped treating them differently.
Virtually everyone in the world wants to be taken for who they are, and treated as a normal/exceptional individual. If you feel that a transexual is "forcing you to adapt" because you don't want to treat, say, Lana Wachowski as just another woman who happens to be a major film director, you might want to ask yourself who's being unreasonable.
Worse still, they could attach robot legs to each TV so if it's unable to get a Wifi signal, it automatically walks out of your house, tries to find some kind of connection, steals two Pringle cans and some foil, and then builds a special mirror that will beam the signal right into your home.
Also they could attach guns to each TV, to ensure that you only change channel when your corporate masters tell you to, and never go to the bathrooms during commercial breaks.
I don't know, I've found my Internet connected pacemaker to be pretty useful, gives me stats, automatically informs my doctor if there's a problem, it's nice. And there is good security with a password and full logging, as anyone browsing to http//172.16.54.138/admin.php?include=/usr/share/www/basic-authentication.php&log=/home/pacemaker/default.log&addlog=2015-02-12%2011:21:00%20Initiated%20login can clearly see.
Best part: the guy who wrote the software apparently used to work for what was, until a year or so ago, the biggest Bitcoin exchange in the world, so with a background in handling sensitive financial transactions he obviously knows a lot about security.
All of this whittering on about ABP ignores the fact that it's already hosted by Mozilla, has been for years, and Mozilla has never blocked it despite having the option to do so. That's in addition to the fact blocking ABP would simply result in everyone using Firefox Developer Edition.
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Re:Drama queen (Score:5, Insightful) by sumdumass (711423) Friend of a Friend on 2015-02-11 19:04 (#49034083)
Well, that is until someone accuses mozilla of aiding copyright distribution by signing and allowing the youtube downloader and they eith stop signing them to avoid legal threats or a lawsuit orders it.
Then it will be 0.
BTW, concievably, add block can be blocked similarly. Al it would take is someone to claim it alters their copyrighted presentation and removes artistic value like when those fundies were bleeping language and cutting r rated scenes from movies. Even if there is no chance in hell of it winning in court, its questionable if mozilla would spend the money to fight it verses just stop signing the blocking software. Reply to This Share Flag as Inappropriate
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Re:Drama queen (Score:?) by squiggleslash (241428) on 2015-02-12 7:33 Homepage Journal
All of this whittering on about ABP ignores the fact that it's already hosted by Mozilla, has been for years, and Mozilla has never blocked it despite having the option to do so. -- ." Hello world"
If it's bypassable, legally, then there's no issue. My objection to the Apple iWalledgarden (as an example) has always been that it's not bypassable via any legal means, with Apple always scrambling to prevent users from exploiting the latest method to unlock their devices to allow their own apps to run.
Firefox is offering two major alternatives here for end users: you can choose to use someone else's.exes (including your own if you really want to compile it), or you can use Firefox's developer's build.
Mozilla is unlikely to accept requests to disable AdBlock+, but if they did, what of it? The reality is that demand for the developer's build would increase, and over time Mozilla would likely seek to contain the damage by, for example, permitting users to install their own extension signing keys in addition to the official Mozilla keys.
The extension system has always been a pontential vector for security attacks. I think they're right in locking it down for users who aren't savvy enough to know the risks.
Jeb hasn't been a public official for over eight years, so it's unlikely many of the emails are covered.
(Personally, I think it's unfortunate, but it's not as if Bush himself was administering the server that did this. Screw ups happen, even with the best of staff. Heads need to roll, but this shouldn't be a political issue.)
Yeah I'm pretty sure none of the Jewish people murdered by the Nazi regime actually asked to have their lives terminated. And if your logic is "Well, it started with the state thinking there were some people it's OK to kill", then perhaps we should start disarming the police, abolish the death penalty, and stop involving ourselves in offensive wars (these are actually good ideas anyway from my point of view, but my view is highly unpopular especially amongst people who espouse the same crap you have.)
You haven't demonstrated a slippery slope, merely some impressive leaping from one unrelated platform to another. The state feeling it's OK to kill people where X=1 does not automatically lead to the state feeling it's OK to kill people where Y=2. It doesn't work that way.
If you really want to turn yourself into ISIL's publicity arm, as Fox News has decided to do, then start your own website. Don't start whining about "Freedom of speech" when you've decided to use someone else's resources, be it Facebook, YouTube, or even Geocities, to host or distribute it, only to find they object to being used by a horrific terrorist organization.
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I think terms like theft are a little over the top when we're talking about intentionally linking a device to a third party's download service, especially when that third party is delivering a service that barely impacts you in any negative way whatsoever.
Honestly, I'm still baffled so many people were upset about getting a few album from a popular, well respected, rock band, simply because it found its way directly onto people's devices. It's not as if it woke you up at 3am and started playing it!
There wasn't really a legacy software advantage for x86 in the Mac arena either. In fact, of the three major tablet OSes, one actually does have a bit of a legacy software advantage if run over x86. I'll go into that in a moment but first:
As far as performance goes, I got an HP Stream 8 a few months ago. It's running Windows 8.1 and has a recent Atom in it, but obviously not a top-of-the-line thing because it's a really cheap tablet, despite supporting 3G. And I have to say I have no complaints whatsoever about performance. It's running everything I throw at it at a decent speed.
Now I'd admit, mentally I'm comparing it to Android. The fastest Android device I've used was a Galaxy Nexus, and the Stream is easily smoother and more responsive than that. It may well be the difference is, in part, Windows and Metro - I get the impression Google really doesn't understand the importance of UI responsiveness. But the truth is with the Stream I really, really, have no complaints relating to speed.
Back on x86 legacy advantages: The other issue I'd raise is that there are quite a few "tablet operating systems" that are languishing in "Not Android" land that might well do well if more hardware comes out supporting x86. The stuff Ubuntu and GNOME are trying to make work might, for example, end up turning into something very, very, powerful if they can get the UIs fixed and if a surfeit of x86 tablets comes out.
No, this never happened.
No. Two members of GJP did have a discussion about whether or not reporting on the harassment campaign against Zoe Quinn might be counter productive. GamerGate/Milo spun that as the drivel you just posted.
Bonus GG points for misusing the word "literally" in classic GG fashion BTW.
No. This never happened. There was never a post claiming "gamers are dead". An article in Gamasutra was spun by those harassing Zoe Quinn as claiming that, but was actually about the market for games widening beyond the small set of violent insular males the industry has traditionally targeted. No article was posted in 13 different websites. Several articles expressing a similar point of view to the Gamasutra piece were posted within a 24 hour period, but the Gamasutra piece and the others were responses to current events, noteably the escalation of the attacks on Zoe Quinn, which had, before the articles had been published, been labeled "Gamergate" by prominent C-list right wing actor Adam Baldwin.
I'm not even going to bother continuing here. Every single statement made in the first few sentences of your piece is an outright lie, dating back to the false narrative posted by Gamergate supporters a month or so after Baldwin's coining of the term where, at Eron Gjoni's partial prompting, the phrase "Actually it's about ethics in gaming media" became GamerGate's defense.
We know GamerGate is about harassment. Other than a small number of women journalists, none have suffered harassment, not even the one supposedly at the center of the "Quinnspiracy". Meanwhile female gamedevs, and feminists posting critiques of the gaming industry, continue, today, to receive violent threats and other abuse. From you guys.
Stop whitewashing your repulsive movement, and grow up.
(Original post has disappeared apparently due to abusive moderation. If you don't like what I'm saying, respond. The fact is everything stated below is true. I know many don't like terms like "Hate group", but it's the only way to describe groups like it, Stormfront, and other extremists.)
Nah, he said what happened and suggested people who don't believe him look at the evidence pointing out what persuaded him. That's a fairly normal way of arguing.
Let's be honest here: Gamergate is a hate movement. A few minutes of Googling, watching Twitter feeds, and even spending some time in KIA - the "Clean face" of GamerGate designed to lure in useful idiots, forget 8chan where the actual organization is - shows that fairly conclusively. I've delved in. I've seen major GamerGate figures in the early days promoting stories like "How to rape a woman and get away with it" and "How to break a woman". I've seen major GamerGate figures harass a woman developer who'd had the audacity to fight back against earlier harassment taunting her because her dog just died.
That's why pretty much the entire mainstream media is calling GamerGate a hate group. They're not doing it because some female gamedev had sex with them. They're calling it a hate group because it is.
You have to be a special kind of idiot to ignore the general success that HSR projects have had across the world. CAHSR isn't a perfect project, it's plagued by politics and would probably cost a fraction of the price if they didn't have to get buy in from 51% of the State.
But profitable? Why wouldn't it be? Acela Express, a relatively crappy HSR system that manages an average speed of 70mph gets half a billion dollars a year in revenues, an amount that's still increasing year-on-year. It has around 80% of the Air-Train market it serves.
There's no reason to believe that CAHSR, a faster "purer" system, wouldn't make more money than Acela Express. And the infrastructure doesn't have to be limited in use to just the four stops currently covered.
It's not perfect, but don't let perfect be the enemy of the good enough. I'd prefer a private project, but looking at the progress of the all-private All Aboard Florida in Florida, I'd say the problems with politics fucking everything up and virtually coercing good projects to do crappy things are going on there too. Texas's HSR is similarly being attacked by NIMBYs in those areas it passes through but doesn't serve. It'll be interesting to see how all three projects progress.
Problems here are that some doxxers are already public, so what do they have to lose, and there's also the risk that the putative doxxer's account has been hijacked.
Nah, he said what happened and suggested people who don't believe him look at the evidence pointing out what persuaded him. That's a fairly normal way of arguing.
Let's be honest here: Gamergate is a hate movement. A few minutes of Googling, watching Twitter feeds, and even spending some time in KIA - the "Clean face" of GamerGate designed to lure in useful idiots, forget 8chan where the actual organization is - shows that fairly conclusively. I've delved in. I've seen major GamerGate figures in the early days promoting stories like "How to rape a woman and get away with it" and "How to break a woman". I've seen major GamerGate figures harass a woman developer who'd had the audacity to fight back against earlier harassment taunting her because her dog just died.
That's why pretty much the entire mainstream media is calling GamerGate a hate group. They're not doing it because some female gamedev had sex with them. They're calling it a hate group because it is.
It's bizarre hype. The articles I've read have quoted the project leaders as claiming this is the real thing, followed by a claim that it's a small scale prototype to test the concept. Uh. OK. Not what most people would say is the "real thing", but whatever.
I'd be more enthusiastic about the project if it didn't appear to be solely a dishonest attempt to kill a high-speed rail project, by claiming an unproven, non-existent, technology that, if implemented as proposed, would only link up two of the four cities CAHSR joins, has a fraction of the capacity, would have a total travel time (that is, downtown to station to station to downtown) that's longer than CAHSR's, is "cheaper". Amazingly enough, CAHSR would cost much less if it didn't have to do those things either.
Which is a shame because I shouldn't be looking at the ugly agenda behind the project. It'd be nice to see it in isolation, as a concept that could join cities in future.
I'm more bothered he's a Capricorn, I mean, really! Us Capricorns don't generally believe in this astrology crap.
I can't speak for the French, but I've noticed the US having a lot of homeopathic crap in the children's medicines aisles of the major supermarkets and drug stores, usually with the homeopathic angle hidden in small print, and "natural", "non-drugs", "Ages 0+" and other language over the rest of it. If I didn't know what homeopathy was, I can say it'd have been highly likely I'd have bought some of this stuff while our baby was colicy, just because anything with drugs is generally marketed as unsuitable for anyone below 2-5 years old.
I'm not sure "gullible" is the right term. "Desperate" and "Lacking critical information needed to make an informed decision" is a better term. I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the 90% of pregnant French women who "use homeopathy" have no idea what homeopathy is, and are simply taking something marketed as being "safe" because it uses "natural ingredients".
So the company that trades as Sega really isn't Sega. I guess then the headline is right (isn't "Atari" actually Infogrames these days? Or has the trademark changed hands again?)
Nah, he's mostly right although stack underflow was more of a problem than stack overflow. FOR...NEXT frequently manipulated a stack in many older 1980s BASICs.
At that time, each command was executed independently of every other command. The program wasn't pre-parsed, beyond tokenization and making a note of where the line numbers were. When you executed a "FOR" statement, the location of the FOR was put on the stack, so that when you executed NEXT, it could return to that FOR statement if the loop wasn't finished.
Which means if you had a program like this:
5 ' Contrived example to draw a right angled triangle twice as high as it is long. 10 FOR I=1 TO 10 20 X=0 30 IF X=2 THEN GOTO 90 40 X=X+1 50 FOR J=1 TO 10 60 IF I=J THEN PRINT : GOTO 30 70 PRINT "."; 80 NEXT 90 NEXT
Some BASICs let you name the loop variable in the NEXT statement. Some even required it. But not all. And those that didn't lead programmers to end up banging their heads over more subtle cases of the above happening.
All his assets? You know, I could have sworn that he's currently running another great big "cloud storage" operation called Mega, but presumably if all his assets were seized then that was just someone else called Kim Dotcom. Or maybe it all runs from a single $1/month VPS service. Or Amazon keeps sending out AWS bills that he doesn't pay. Or...
With phones and tablets becoming more powerful I'd rather see a convergence with an acknowledgement that the two environments need different UIs.
We've solved this problem before, it's called MVC. iOS/Mac OS X supposedly has a native MVC stack (Cocoa) but doesn't actually exploit it in any serious way (to the point you wonder why they bothered), and Microsoft seems to be wary of the concept - genuine question, but other than a stunted web framework, has Microsoft ever produced a first class MVC stack?
But in any case, what I actually want is something that has windows, scrollbars, icons, stuff you point and click on, when it's plugged into a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, that automatically switches to a tap and slide interface when you disconnect those things and just use the screen. And I'd like it to have a decent speed x86(-64) CPU and 4Gb of RAM.
And while I'm on the wishlist, if it's a decent MVC stack, it could work over the web too, which would bypass the need to have an RDP protocol.
"We", the FOSS community, could probably do this, but I don't think there's a will to do it, which is a shame.
This is an impressive display of putting words into people's mouths. You are aware there's a massive difference between someone saying "I think it'd be better if people did X and didn't do Y" and them saying "People should be forced to do X, and punished for doing Y"?
I'd say you don't understand nuance, but this isn't even at that level. It's a ludicrously over the top mis-extrapolation of someone's views. This kind of "debate", a refusal to listen to what people actually say, and attempts to make them look ridiculous by deliberately misrepresenting their views, is why we can't have nice things.
Yeah I know and was trying to make that point. The high IQ thing is a myth and has nothing to do with Asperger's, but the popular view amongst the self-diagnosed is that it's one of the two big elements, the other being anti-social (by which the self-diagnosed seem to mean "is rude to people". "I think I'm smart and I'm rude, hey, if I have this Asperger's thing I have an excuse for the latter based on the former!"
That's why I used Tourettes as a similar example (and compared nerds diagnosing themselves with Asperger's to "British people" self-diagnosing themselves as having Tourettes - which thankfully doesn't generally happen.) Contrary to myth, Tourettes is not about swearing, most sufferers don't swear (well, any more than non-sufferers.) British people don't have Tourettes any more than any other culture. The culture in the UK itself has priorities and foci that lead to swearing being more acceptable than it is in, say, most of the US. That's the explanation, not a neurological condition that doesn't actually have anything to do with swearing in the first place.
Well, you can't blame them. As we all know, Aspergers is a condition characterized by having poor social skills, and having a high IQ*, which means many here know without even needing to consult a doctor that they have the condition.
Likewise, I'm British. So I don't need a fucking doctor to tell me that I have Tourettes.
* This is actually complete bollocks, but that's the point: Tourettes has nothing to do with swearing either.
Virtually everyone in the world wants to be taken for who they are, and treated as a normal/exceptional individual. If you feel that a transexual is "forcing you to adapt" because you don't want to treat, say, Lana Wachowski as just another woman who happens to be a major film director, you might want to ask yourself who's being unreasonable.
Worse still, they could attach robot legs to each TV so if it's unable to get a Wifi signal, it automatically walks out of your house, tries to find some kind of connection, steals two Pringle cans and some foil, and then builds a special mirror that will beam the signal right into your home.
Also they could attach guns to each TV, to ensure that you only change channel when your corporate masters tell you to, and never go to the bathrooms during commercial breaks.
I don't know, I've found my Internet connected pacemaker to be pretty useful, gives me stats, automatically informs my doctor if there's a problem, it's nice. And there is good security with a password and full logging, as anyone browsing to http //172.16.54.138/admin.php?include=/usr/share/www/basic-authentication.php&log=/home/pacemaker/default.log&addlog=2015-02-12%2011:21:00%20Initiated%20login can clearly see.
Best part: the guy who wrote the software apparently used to work for what was, until a year or so ago, the biggest Bitcoin exchange in the world, so with a background in handling sensitive financial transactions he obviously knows a lot about security.
All of this whittering on about ABP ignores the fact that it's already hosted by Mozilla, has been for years, and Mozilla has never blocked it despite having the option to do so. That's in addition to the fact blocking ABP would simply result in everyone using Firefox Developer Edition.
If it's bypassable, legally, then there's no issue. My objection to the Apple iWalledgarden (as an example) has always been that it's not bypassable via any legal means, with Apple always scrambling to prevent users from exploiting the latest method to unlock their devices to allow their own apps to run.
Firefox is offering two major alternatives here for end users: you can choose to use someone else's .exes (including your own if you really want to compile it), or you can use Firefox's developer's build.
Mozilla is unlikely to accept requests to disable AdBlock+, but if they did, what of it? The reality is that demand for the developer's build would increase, and over time Mozilla would likely seek to contain the damage by, for example, permitting users to install their own extension signing keys in addition to the official Mozilla keys.
The extension system has always been a pontential vector for security attacks. I think they're right in locking it down for users who aren't savvy enough to know the risks.
Jeb hasn't been a public official for over eight years, so it's unlikely many of the emails are covered.
(Personally, I think it's unfortunate, but it's not as if Bush himself was administering the server that did this. Screw ups happen, even with the best of staff. Heads need to roll, but this shouldn't be a political issue.)
Yeah I'm pretty sure none of the Jewish people murdered by the Nazi regime actually asked to have their lives terminated. And if your logic is "Well, it started with the state thinking there were some people it's OK to kill", then perhaps we should start disarming the police, abolish the death penalty, and stop involving ourselves in offensive wars (these are actually good ideas anyway from my point of view, but my view is highly unpopular especially amongst people who espouse the same crap you have.)
You haven't demonstrated a slippery slope, merely some impressive leaping from one unrelated platform to another. The state feeling it's OK to kill people where X=1 does not automatically lead to the state feeling it's OK to kill people where Y=2. It doesn't work that way.
The person whose megaphone is being used.
If you really want to turn yourself into ISIL's publicity arm, as Fox News has decided to do, then start your own website. Don't start whining about "Freedom of speech" when you've decided to use someone else's resources, be it Facebook, YouTube, or even Geocities, to host or distribute it, only to find they object to being used by a horrific terrorist organization.