What standards? you mean backwards compatibility that you never really had with software originally designed to run on a machine with 64 kbit of RAM. Or compataibility with other Operating Systems, that no one really cares about except their propretary forks. You know, the same people who complain about "Freetards", and generally bitch how terrible FOSS is, but yet dependant on BSD licensed components to make their proprietary systems run, because they are too dense to do it themselves. That?
I've also yet to see systemd, or networkmanager, really comrpomise system integrity, mabey you can give a few examples?
Here is another thing, most distro's initscripts never worked right, and they were also completely non-standard, and usually tied to one distro, and incompatible with eachother. Systemd is distribution agnostic, and is doing a fine job at creating new, better inter-distro standards.
Its not ported to other OSs, but fucking shit, its free software, if someone else wants it, they can port it.
Leonart dragged the linux desktop kicking and screaming into the 21st century and contiues to do so, again and again addressing major defeciences between Linux and Windows featurewise, and time and time again, surpassing the proprietary competition.
People keep talking about "the year of the Linux Desktop". Guess what, Leonart is the only fucking person who is actually working on getting us there.
This post has been a long time in the making, as Leonart is easily the most hated programmer in Free software, despite being one of the more competant and forward thinking of the bunch, he pulls a disproporiate amount of hate until he has become a running joke. Most of his haters are misguided luddites who are too obessed with the past, and cannot look towards the future.
I am supprised we haven't seen anything like this previous, and I don't know how the man deals with just being leonart poettering.
Poettering is not a troll. He's a software developer, who has the unforunateness of writing lots of great software that a lot of people simply do not like.
Simply not liking someone's software is one thing, but the level of Poettering hate, while amusing, is counterproductive, and at sometimes scary.
That said, I'm a fan of the man and his work, based purely on its technical merrits.
rote memorization up to powers of 10 is neccary, because its a requirement for doing more complicated based 10 math. But yes, many moons ago, when I was in school, they did explain basic math, but memorization of tables makes higher math easier than having to work out that 5 times 7 is 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 +5
in computing, rote memorization of basic UNIX commands is neccary before you start to use a computer.(and using them in creative ways).
There is no field that doesn't have a base amount of rote memorization before you are able to grasp the more abstract concepts.
I generally disagree with rote memorization in general, because advanced concepts cannot be grasped with rote memorization.
selective enforcement of a rule, as suggested, targeting a group like drag queens is, abuse.
I think the legal name requirement of facebook itself pretty much makes people target for abuse to begin with. You see, "Anonymous" or whatever you want to call them is nothing new. Groups like that have existed under various banners since the dawn of the internet, and they will never go away because of the anonymous nature of the internet itself. They would not have trouble creating a fake account, because they don't care if it gets deleted.
Someone who invests time and energy does. We also have the issue that some people in scenes like drag are comfortable talking about it openly. Others are not comfortable and need to hide behind a fake name to prevent retribution.
Sexism in tech is part of a larger trend of sexism in US culture. I am somewhat offended by the insinuations of sexism in tech, because of wholehearted denial and refusal to deal with sexism in larger US culture, and I feel that nerd culture/tech is being singled out. I also feel that most sexism in tech stems from stereotypes and myths about women that are present in larger culture, and your asking nerds to have morales that larger society doesn't have.
At very least please don't tell me there is no connection between rape culture and celebrity culture, and even some of the most ardent feminists stick up for rapists who are RIAA/MPAA sponsored musicians, because most of them are part of organizations that are tied to eachother politically.
I recoiled in horror as people suggested changing rape laws to let roman polanksi off the hook after admitting to raping a 13 year old girl.
Nerds are blamed for "booth babes" present at industry centered conventions, which also grace other industry conventions like automobible conventions, and completely ignore the CEO/Business types who they are there to slobber all over them.
A quick google finds that sexism is pretty prevelant in other fields
Sexism in law/legal: https://www.google.com/search?q=sexism+in+law&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp
Sexism in business: https://www.google.com/search?q=sexism+in+business&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&channel=np
So thats just other "proffesional" fields. Now lets look at the source of sexism. mainstream culture:
Ganster rap, promoting pimping, forced prostitution. No one wants to touch this with a ten foot pole. Gone are the socialist days of Martin Luther King, or even the more extreme black panthers. Today, black power, at least as what corporations let broadcast on TV is about domination, gold chains, material posessions, to include other human beings.
Lets even get into rock'n'roll. In mainstream rock'n'roll. Men are rock stars, and women are groupies. Few if any women front mainstream rock bands.
Lets look at underground like hardcore punk, and modern HC influenced metal. Then you get to see some of the girls shine as front women, bassists, and are capable of fufilling the same hard hard hitting roles as men.
Rape culture - its well visable from a young age, that certain cliques such as the football team are more or less allowed to have sex with anyone they want, despite what that anyone would say about it. The trappings of success and what it means to be a leader as violence are embedded pretty early on. Every 2-3 years on que there is a national story about the football team raping someone. Nothing is done.
Low social status is conferred to men who haven't raped anyone. Utter refusal to break this up and replace it with more postives.
Sexual shame and denial. Even in many liberal progressivist circles, people are told to be affraid of their bodies. It seems the onl
I think they do already. There is little real evidence to suggest that microsoft actually invented anything, and samsung is guilty of nothing but competition and the law suit was frivolious.
Speaking of "be good people", bold words from someone supporting microsoft. Mabey they should do their own stuff, not steal via lawsuits, and be good people.
x86 is intel's bread and butter. that noose is fairly weak, and they do pay for x86-64, but for how long. AMD is not a viable competitor to intel. Its really not. Intel makes the better chips, and has for a long time, and this is not relivant to change anyttime soon. Your also forgetting patents run out in 17 years.
>AMD64 was created as an alternative to the radically different IA-64 architecture, which was designed by Intel and Hewlett Packard. Originally announced in 1999[11] with a full specification in August 2000
we are more than halfway through the life of the patent. There isn't a change in hell intel will feel threatend before that patent expires. Lets set the date of the patent at 2003 when the chips first ship. Patent is done in 2020
Not to mention there are dozens of other patents on things like instruction sets which are just as important as x86-64 to modern computers. Intel owns a fair share, and AMD can't revoke AMD64 without loosing its cross licensed patents it gets from intel.
>As long as a capitalist* exists, most of the world's population has a chance to eat. However, society needs to restrain capitalists in return for permitting them to continue.
the irony is biting me, as a good chunk of the world does not have a good chance to eat, and its because of capitalism. People starve in wealthy countries.
>Out of interest, how would you stop a man who invests his time in making and using tools from being more productive than one who sits on his ass all day drinking beer/vodka?
I'd invalidate their stock certificates, and end their ownership stakes, and kick them out of elected office.
For decades, the "Federalist Complaint Center" was the forefront of social conservative censorship, and placing businesses in control over all radio and TV stations more or less preventing competing voices by regulation.
The instant the FCC proposes something the least bit fair, its a fucking conspiracy. But these are the same people who hate the government, except when the government is shooting at anti-capitalist, or even just plain old non-conservative actiivists.
Android is Open Source as well, your not suggesting it doesn't have value. I mean anyone has the permission to fork it, but not everyone has the skills to meaninfully develop android. Those are somewhat rare actually. Its not easy maintaining software, so the fallicy of "anyone can take your software" is bogus. This is the value in Free Software. Its not the code, its the maintainers. Free Software only has value if it requires high quality devs.
The cyanogen team has the skills to maintain not just an Android fork, but one that has value over AOSP. How do you do a better job maintaining an FOSS project than the people who wrote it? You have rare an unique talent thats how.
The value of CM isn't its codebase. Its the developers. Google wants CM for its dev team and proccess. Its the same reason Red Hat hired the CentOS team.
If these people do a better job with our product than we do, why aren't they working for us?
Thats right, the cost of oil is going up, as the amount work needed to extract it is going up. The amount of physical and human resources needed to extract oil is only going to skyrocket. The base cost behind producing oil is only going to increase from here. The days of easy oil are long over.
Solar technology becomes more advanced, like all other forms of technology, it becomes more effecient, and easier to manufacture. Effeciency of pannels has doubled in the last 10-20 years, and its still rapidly evolving, and pannels are getting cheaper. On top of that mass adoption will drive costs down via volume of scale. Oil is already at peak consumption, and there is no way to scale it up further. Nowhere left to expand.
The net effect is solar will continue to get cheaper, and oil more expensive, exponentially on both. This isn't rocket science or brain surgery.
As long as capitalist exists, a pile of cash is enough to ruin any altrustic endevour, unrelated activist cause.
When you follow this to its logical end, the only people who really have a true say in the end, are those with large piles of cash. Not the will of laborers, engineers, thinkers, and developers. Everyone needs to bow to large piles of cash.
in all my thirty something years on this planet, that is the typical go to when they want cram something evil, surrpotious, anti-democracy, anti-freedom, harmful, or otherwise impinging on your rights as a human being.
Its old, in fact it seems like a tired cliche. I could swear we've had this conversation a million times before. Being this is slashdot, its starting to draw back memories of carnivore and raptor.
Next, some politicians are going to make some noise about freedom, privacy, democracy and that jazz, later, and they are going to forget about this or pretend it never happened.
Made an "air cannon". Sweet shit. This is how the sytem is, the way it is. They pick someone relatively normal, go "you wanna be famous", then overexaggerate everything he does, just so they can tell the rest of us we are worthless.
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What standards? you mean backwards compatibility that you never really had with software originally designed to run on a machine with 64 kbit of RAM. Or compataibility with other Operating Systems, that no one really cares about except their propretary forks. You know, the same people who complain about "Freetards", and generally bitch how terrible FOSS is, but yet dependant on BSD licensed components to make their proprietary systems run, because they are too dense to do it themselves. That?
I've also yet to see systemd, or networkmanager, really comrpomise system integrity, mabey you can give a few examples?
Here is another thing, most distro's initscripts never worked right, and they were also completely non-standard, and usually tied to one distro, and incompatible with eachother. Systemd is distribution agnostic, and is doing a fine job at creating new, better inter-distro standards.
Its not ported to other OSs, but fucking shit, its free software, if someone else wants it, they can port it.
Leonart dragged the linux desktop kicking and screaming into the 21st century and contiues to do so, again and again addressing major defeciences between Linux and Windows featurewise, and time and time again, surpassing the proprietary competition.
People keep talking about "the year of the Linux Desktop". Guess what, Leonart is the only fucking person who is actually working on getting us there.
This post has been a long time in the making, as Leonart is easily the most hated programmer in Free software, despite being one of the more competant and forward thinking of the bunch, he pulls a disproporiate amount of hate until he has become a running joke. Most of his haters are misguided luddites who are too obessed with the past, and cannot look towards the future.
I am supprised we haven't seen anything like this previous, and I don't know how the man deals with just being leonart poettering.
Poettering is not a troll. He's a software developer, who has the unforunateness of writing lots of great software that a lot of people simply do not like.
Simply not liking someone's software is one thing, but the level of Poettering hate, while amusing, is counterproductive, and at sometimes scary.
That said, I'm a fan of the man and his work, based purely on its technical merrits.
rote memorization up to powers of 10 is neccary, because its a requirement for doing more complicated based 10 math. But yes, many moons ago, when I was in school, they did explain basic math, but memorization of tables makes higher math easier than having to work out that 5 times 7 is 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 +5
in computing, rote memorization of basic UNIX commands is neccary before you start to use a computer.(and using them in creative ways).
There is no field that doesn't have a base amount of rote memorization before you are able to grasp the more abstract concepts.
I generally disagree with rote memorization in general, because advanced concepts cannot be grasped with rote memorization.
ability to put up with bullshit, understanding when all plans go to shit, and great at improvising.
the original x86 patents are long gone. There is a giant cross license scheme between AMD and Intel, with Intel having the upper hand.
selective enforcement of a rule, as suggested, targeting a group like drag queens is, abuse.
I think the legal name requirement of facebook itself pretty much makes people target for abuse to begin with. You see, "Anonymous" or whatever you want to call them is nothing new. Groups like that have existed under various banners since the dawn of the internet, and they will never go away because of the anonymous nature of the internet itself. They would not have trouble creating a fake account, because they don't care if it gets deleted.
Someone who invests time and energy does. We also have the issue that some people in scenes like drag are comfortable talking about it openly. Others are not comfortable and need to hide behind a fake name to prevent retribution.
Sexism in tech is part of a larger trend of sexism in US culture. I am somewhat offended by the insinuations of sexism in tech, because of wholehearted denial and refusal to deal with sexism in larger US culture, and I feel that nerd culture/tech is being singled out. I also feel that most sexism in tech stems from stereotypes and myths about women that are present in larger culture, and your asking nerds to have morales that larger society doesn't have.
At very least please don't tell me there is no connection between rape culture and celebrity culture, and even some of the most ardent feminists stick up for rapists who are RIAA/MPAA sponsored musicians, because most of them are part of organizations that are tied to eachother politically.
I recoiled in horror as people suggested changing rape laws to let roman polanksi off the hook after admitting to raping a 13 year old girl.
Nerds are blamed for "booth babes" present at industry centered conventions, which also grace other industry conventions like automobible conventions, and completely ignore the CEO/Business types who they are there to slobber all over them.
A quick google finds that sexism is pretty prevelant in other fields
Sexism in law/legal:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sexism+in+law&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp
http://ms-jd.org/blog/article/what-no-one-tells-you-you-go-law-school-youre-entering-sexist-profession
www.legalweek.com/legal-week/feature/2259318/sexism-and-the-city-why-female-lawyers-are-afraid-to-speak-out-against-discrimination
http://abovethelaw.com/sexism/
Sexism in medicine:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sexism+in+medicine&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&channel=np
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/stories-of-everyday-sexism-as-told-by-women-in-medicine
http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2012/nuanced-sexism-reflections-female-surgery-resident
Sexism in business:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sexism+in+business&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&channel=np
http://www.topmba.com/blog/harvard-study-confirms-sexism-business-mba-news
http://www.businessinsider.com/sexism-leads-to-feminist-manifesto-2014-5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/01/harvard-business-dean-apologizes-for-sexism-on-campus/
So thats just other "proffesional" fields. Now lets look at the source of sexism. mainstream culture:
Ganster rap, promoting pimping, forced prostitution. No one wants to touch this with a ten foot pole. Gone are the socialist days of Martin Luther King, or even the more extreme black panthers. Today, black power, at least as what corporations let broadcast on TV is about domination, gold chains, material posessions, to include other human beings.
Lets even get into rock'n'roll. In mainstream rock'n'roll. Men are rock stars, and women are groupies. Few if any women front mainstream rock bands.
Lets look at underground like hardcore punk, and modern HC influenced metal. Then you get to see some of the girls shine as front women, bassists, and are capable of fufilling the same hard hard hitting roles as men.
Rape culture - its well visable from a young age, that certain cliques such as the football team are more or less allowed to have sex with anyone they want, despite what that anyone would say about it. The trappings of success and what it means to be a leader as violence are embedded pretty early on. Every 2-3 years on que there is a national story about the football team raping someone. Nothing is done.
Low social status is conferred to men who haven't raped anyone. Utter refusal to break this up and replace it with more postives.
Sexual shame and denial. Even in many liberal progressivist circles, people are told to be affraid of their bodies. It seems the onl
I think they do already. There is little real evidence to suggest that microsoft actually invented anything, and samsung is guilty of nothing but competition and the law suit was frivolious.
Speaking of "be good people", bold words from someone supporting microsoft. Mabey they should do their own stuff, not steal via lawsuits, and be good people.
x86 is intel's bread and butter. that noose is fairly weak, and they do pay for x86-64, but for how long. AMD is not a viable competitor to intel. Its really not. Intel makes the better chips, and has for a long time, and this is not relivant to change anyttime soon. Your also forgetting patents run out in 17 years.
>AMD64 was created as an alternative to the radically different IA-64 architecture, which was designed by Intel and Hewlett Packard. Originally announced in 1999[11] with a full specification in August 2000
we are more than halfway through the life of the patent. There isn't a change in hell intel will feel threatend before that patent expires. Lets set the date of the patent at 2003 when the chips first ship. Patent is done in 2020
Not to mention there are dozens of other patents on things like instruction sets which are just as important as x86-64 to modern computers. Intel owns a fair share, and AMD can't revoke AMD64 without loosing its cross licensed patents it gets from intel.
>As long as a capitalist* exists, most of the world's population has a chance to eat. However, society needs to restrain capitalists in return for permitting them to continue.
the irony is biting me, as a good chunk of the world does not have a good chance to eat, and its because of capitalism. People starve in wealthy countries.
>Out of interest, how would you stop a man who invests his time in making and using tools from being more productive than one who sits on his ass all day drinking beer/vodka?
I'd invalidate their stock certificates, and end their ownership stakes, and kick them out of elected office.
For decades, the "Federalist Complaint Center" was the forefront of social conservative censorship, and placing businesses in control over all radio and TV stations more or less preventing competing voices by regulation.
The instant the FCC proposes something the least bit fair, its a fucking conspiracy. But these are the same people who hate the government, except when the government is shooting at anti-capitalist, or even just plain old non-conservative actiivists.
after making a big deal about "whiny complaining liberals". They are like SJWs for problems that don't really exist.
There are many who demand it more than men as well.
There are also many men who don't care for sex either. Strange, but yets.
Myths and stereotypes about human sexuality.
the same reason people still eat steak over its soy equivilants.
The amount of ignoramous about sex in this thread is mind boggling.
Android is Open Source as well, your not suggesting it doesn't have value. I mean anyone has the permission to fork it, but not everyone has the skills to meaninfully develop android. Those are somewhat rare actually. Its not easy maintaining software, so the fallicy of "anyone can take your software" is bogus. This is the value in Free Software. Its not the code, its the maintainers. Free Software only has value if it requires high quality devs.
The cyanogen team has the skills to maintain not just an Android fork, but one that has value over AOSP. How do you do a better job maintaining an FOSS project than the people who wrote it? You have rare an unique talent thats how.
The value of CM isn't its codebase. Its the developers. Google wants CM for its dev team and proccess. Its the same reason Red Hat hired the CentOS team.
If these people do a better job with our product than we do, why aren't they working for us?
>freetards
this man is an intellegent rational person who is here to make insightful comments.
76% of all computers run the linux kernel. u mad bro?
Thats right, the cost of oil is going up, as the amount work needed to extract it is going up. The amount of physical and human resources needed to extract oil is only going to skyrocket. The base cost behind producing oil is only going to increase from here. The days of easy oil are long over.
Solar technology becomes more advanced, like all other forms of technology, it becomes more effecient, and easier to manufacture. Effeciency of pannels has doubled in the last 10-20 years, and its still rapidly evolving, and pannels are getting cheaper. On top of that mass adoption will drive costs down via volume of scale. Oil is already at peak consumption, and there is no way to scale it up further. Nowhere left to expand.
The net effect is solar will continue to get cheaper, and oil more expensive, exponentially on both. This isn't rocket science or brain surgery.
This is why I am an anti-capitalist.
As long as capitalist exists, a pile of cash is enough to ruin any altrustic endevour, unrelated activist cause.
When you follow this to its logical end, the only people who really have a true say in the end, are those with large piles of cash. Not the will of laborers, engineers, thinkers, and developers. Everyone needs to bow to large piles of cash.
I think the OP was talking about *attitudes*, specificly on the theories of gender, and non-traditional gender constructs.
It all gets back to biblical phobias over someone's free will to do with their body as they please.
because monkey fucking makes for a much better story.
obviously.
"oooh, Think of the children,hoooohoho"
in all my thirty something years on this planet, that is the typical go to when they want cram something evil, surrpotious, anti-democracy, anti-freedom, harmful, or otherwise impinging on your rights as a human being.
Its old, in fact it seems like a tired cliche. I could swear we've had this conversation a million times before. Being this is slashdot, its starting to draw back memories of carnivore and raptor.
Next, some politicians are going to make some noise about freedom, privacy, democracy and that jazz, later, and they are going to forget about this or pretend it never happened.
exploits come and go. This is one giant exploit in this entire 20 something year history of bash
why is that. Other than "I said so", or "open sores sux"
Made an "air cannon". Sweet shit. This is how the sytem is, the way it is. They pick someone relatively normal, go "you wanna be famous", then overexaggerate everything he does, just so they can tell the rest of us we are worthless.
Thats the "great man theory" in a nutshell.