The main thing I lack on Linux systems is powerful file manager. And by powerful I mean really powerful. On Windows, I use Far, I can manage files, processes, edit multiple files, start/stop services, browse SMB network, connect to ssh (scp), connect to sftp, manage registry, view images and so on. And there are many plugins I can use for many more features, if this is not enough. Totalcmd has similar features. There is absolutely no comparable file manager on linux. Midnight commander is just nightmare and doesn't have half the features that Far does and as far as I remember, Krusader is also quite behind.
I'm not sure what reasonable should be, but for example Google can pay in single acquisition several billion dollars. If they have tens billions dollars in reserves, I think it is reasonable. They are large companies and need large reserves. But I have to admit, I don't know, how big their reserves in fact are.
I really don't agree with taxing companies. If company generates revenue and doesn't spend this money the same year, it gets punished for this by the income tax. Why do we do that? We are forcing responsible companies, that want to make financial reserves not to do them. Let's tax only the transfer of money from companies to people. If the money stays in the company, nobody is going to buy a super expensive yacht for their own ego without paying taxes.
Somebody could say that taxing the companies is important because they can pile the money without passing them again in the economy and thus cause deflation. However, income taxes don't prevent this, they merely slow this process.
You can take their stuff if you find it. I imagine this as a boat with gold sailing in international waters. This boat is not protected by any country, but you can't steal it, because you don't know, where it is.
If you bought DVD and you want to resell it, you actually can (IIRC, there was a definitely a legal case and I think the it was ruled in favor of the resell). You can lend that DVD too and even for profit. You are, however, not allowed to create a copy of the DVD and sell it.
As for the youtube, If they didn't generate a revenue, why the hell would they maintain it and pay for the servers? Of course they have no right to generate revenue, but if they won't YT will simply cease to exist. If you were the owner of the youtube and you had to pay $10M annually to have it working, would you be willing to pay it?
And as for them, they could not ask MS to remove their application, they could change the youtube implementation and do it so often, that such application wouldn't work anyways. But their approach is more considerate to end users who can use such hacks on their own.
Yes, it is similar but not the same. When you buy dvd, you own it and should be able to do anything with it, because you paid for it. When it comes to youtube, you didn't pay anything, but the bandwidth and the servers Google uses aren't for free. They need to be able to generate revenue somehow.
Unfortunately, the ads on youtube are so annoying and so disturbing, I had to install adblock and I'm not very happy about it. I feel like I should pay Google somehow back for using youtube, but when advertisement banner pops up over subtitles and I'm not able to read them, or 15 seconds intro delays me from watching 1 minute video I can not withstand it anymore.
Not really. For example, I'm running right now about 10 different gui programs. If each of this programs used its own Qt library, it would cost me 100 MB in total. Right now, my firefox consumes about 700 MB of its own, thunderbird 200 MB. Don't tell me it is so much.
And as for the performance, I can't see the performance impact. If you have like 256 MB of ram and don't use any memory consuming program, you can have more swapping, that is true. But if you have normal computer with enough ram (say 2-3 GB), you won't notice anything.
However, a lot of people cares about security, and it's really bad if we have 10 versions of the same library with a security hole, and have no way to know if a given app developer will care updating that lib.
I can imagine, that in some cases this scenario happen, but it would be rare. There will be far more likely a security problem in the application itself.
For this scenario to happen you need:
1. Released stable library, that has security holes in some of its api
2. Application that uses this library and this api
3. The application has to be exposed to "hostile" environment (you don't care if a app has BO in it if you use it only yourself).
4. The hostile environment must be somehow able to go trough the application to exploit the vulnerable api.
1. 3. and 4. are extremely unlikely.
Solving dependency problems costs time and hence money.
That's the role of the developer to do that kind of checks. With the proper tools, it's easy to do, so it doesn't cost so much time (and hence money).
It really doesn't matter that much. Many developers write their software, test it and release it. They don't test it again when a new version of library appears (it costs them money). If the developer has more applications to maintain and the user base isn't big enough (many small but great application fall in this category) and compatibility problem appears, it could stay unfixed for long time, even forever. I'm talking from my own experiences - not making things up.
Actually, the "shitload of bloat duplicate binaries" is quite good. Nobody gives a damn about 10 MB of their disk space because the program takes it's libraries with it. However, everyone gives ten tones of damn when they can't install new application because of "dependency problem". Solving dependency problems costs time and hence money. Disk space is cheap.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying, that new Ubuntu does that, I'm just arguing against the philosophy of bad duplicate binaries.
As for the processing, the speed of normal computer would be sufficient, I'm not sure about a small device that can the singer have with him. Still, I think that the latency might be problem with cheap webcam - from my experiences I can say, that webcams do have noticeable latency.
The problem is delay. You would have to have expensive webcam and expensive computer in order not to have delay (half second is infinity). Moreover, when you look at the choirmaster, you can recognize that he is going to express the sign even before he actually does. This allows you to prepare. It would be hard to recognize this with such solution.
Yes. If the blackhole is supermassive, the spaghettification wouldn't take blace before entering the event horizon. The fun fact is, that from a distant observer, the astronaut would never go across the event horizon (due to time dilatation). And by never I mean do mean never. Until the end of time the astronaut will not cross the event horizon.
The next fun fact is, that because of hawking radiation, every blackhole will eventually evaporate. This means, that the astronaut can't actually cross the event horizon. Never.
I have used this and it really works. I have been forced to work near people who talked loudly so I combined earplugs with headphones with pretty loud sea waves sounds and I was able to concentrate just as if there was nobody around.
The minimum wage may not be "tech news", however, it is stuff that matters since it affects the economy of the USA and thus the economy of the whole world. I'm not from USA but I appreciate knowing about it.
Let's take Stephen Hawking as an example. He is thought to be one of the biggest geniuses nowadays. But if you ask common public member, what did he discover, most people won't be able to say a single thing. He published many books for general public, which made him good PR, he is disabled, which is good for such image too. The media think, that he is current Albert Einstein and hence the general public does.
To be sure somebody doesn't take me wrong, I took S.H. just as an example, I'm not by any means questioning his work.
It does not. QE binds particles in such a way, that when one particle is measured, the second is bound by this measurement. For example if you measure, that one particle has +1/2 spin, the second then has -1/2 spin. This is not transmission of information - you can't force one particle to have spin +1/2 and cause the second particle to have instantly -1/2 spin.
I will answer myself. They are talking about transporting quantum information or quantum state. Quantum information is _NOT_ the same as classical information. The summary is misleading in this way.
Instant teleportation of information according to STR violates causality. Is this a really serious science? Recycling state of quantum entanglement might be possible but as far as I know, quantum entangled particles don't "transport" information.
I don't argue that mathematics is ubiquitous in sciences, human interaction, society and the rest of the universe even in its pure form. I just say, what the word means for ordinary people and that we can not force them to change the way they understand it.
Integration, sin(x), statistic, differential equations and this stuff is, what makes mathematics useful in real life. I don't argue that the very core of mathematics consists of axioms, proofs, theories and so on, but for most people mathematics is the part of "math" that is most used.
I think that Asian companies are not out of the game. They almost always use some kind of open solution for their devices, since nobody wants proprietary OS no apps for that. For now, they use Android, but they can try Ubuntu in the future too.
This is also for people. Of course the companies that own the ships traveling in that area are profiting from such protection, BUT - once again, the companies are just people, the shareholders, management, employees - those people benefit from the protection from pirates. The company as a juridical person doesn't care.
Another example would be: If I have company and the company and this company generates some profit. As long as I don't withdraw the money from my company, I can not use the money. The company can reinvest the money (before the end of fiscal year) and pay no taxes, or save the money (during the end of fiscal year) and pay the taxes. Even if the state for example by protecting its ships increases its profits, nothing changes, the money is still stuck in my company. If I want to collect my profits, the money will be taxed by income tax, otherwise my company will reinvest the money in some point in the future (inflation is the force causing this and is strong enough).
When I state it as simple as possible, income taxes are just forcing companies to reinvest their profits the same year and don't save anything for future.
It is not in vacuum it is the reality. When I create a company, the company starts to exist. Its money are not my money. When I want to use that money, I have to pay income tax. I'm the one who benefits from the things that society provides. The company does not, the company doesn't care.
I will not repeat this again. If you are going to react to my post, please try to be more specific than "your argument stinks" argument.
Company is abstract construct. Company doesn't care about anything, it is the people that are controlling it. When we say Google did this or that, it means people in Google in the name of the company did this or that. When people in Google decide to destroy it, the company won't fight back. When the company has the money, nobody benefits from that and thus there should be no tax from that money (inflation is good enough).
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The main thing I lack on Linux systems is powerful file manager. And by powerful I mean really powerful. On Windows, I use Far, I can manage files, processes, edit multiple files, start/stop services, browse SMB network, connect to ssh (scp), connect to sftp, manage registry, view images and so on. And there are many plugins I can use for many more features, if this is not enough. Totalcmd has similar features. There is absolutely no comparable file manager on linux. Midnight commander is just nightmare and doesn't have half the features that Far does and as far as I remember, Krusader is also quite behind.
I'm not sure what reasonable should be, but for example Google can pay in single acquisition several billion dollars. If they have tens billions dollars in reserves, I think it is reasonable. They are large companies and need large reserves. But I have to admit, I don't know, how big their reserves in fact are.
I really don't agree with taxing companies. If company generates revenue and doesn't spend this money the same year, it gets punished for this by the income tax. Why do we do that? We are forcing responsible companies, that want to make financial reserves not to do them. Let's tax only the transfer of money from companies to people. If the money stays in the company, nobody is going to buy a super expensive yacht for their own ego without paying taxes.
Somebody could say that taxing the companies is important because they can pile the money without passing them again in the economy and thus cause deflation. However, income taxes don't prevent this, they merely slow this process.
You can take their stuff if you find it. I imagine this as a boat with gold sailing in international waters. This boat is not protected by any country, but you can't steal it, because you don't know, where it is.
If you bought DVD and you want to resell it, you actually can (IIRC, there was a definitely a legal case and I think the it was ruled in favor of the resell). You can lend that DVD too and even for profit. You are, however, not allowed to create a copy of the DVD and sell it. As for the youtube, If they didn't generate a revenue, why the hell would they maintain it and pay for the servers? Of course they have no right to generate revenue, but if they won't YT will simply cease to exist. If you were the owner of the youtube and you had to pay $10M annually to have it working, would you be willing to pay it? And as for them, they could not ask MS to remove their application, they could change the youtube implementation and do it so often, that such application wouldn't work anyways. But their approach is more considerate to end users who can use such hacks on their own.
Yes, it is similar but not the same. When you buy dvd, you own it and should be able to do anything with it, because you paid for it. When it comes to youtube, you didn't pay anything, but the bandwidth and the servers Google uses aren't for free. They need to be able to generate revenue somehow.
Unfortunately, the ads on youtube are so annoying and so disturbing, I had to install adblock and I'm not very happy about it. I feel like I should pay Google somehow back for using youtube, but when advertisement banner pops up over subtitles and I'm not able to read them, or 15 seconds intro delays me from watching 1 minute video I can not withstand it anymore.
Not really. For example, I'm running right now about 10 different gui programs. If each of this programs used its own Qt library, it would cost me 100 MB in total. Right now, my firefox consumes about 700 MB of its own, thunderbird 200 MB. Don't tell me it is so much.
And as for the performance, I can't see the performance impact. If you have like 256 MB of ram and don't use any memory consuming program, you can have more swapping, that is true. But if you have normal computer with enough ram (say 2-3 GB), you won't notice anything.
However, a lot of people cares about security, and it's really bad if we have 10 versions of the same library with a security hole, and have no way to know if a given app developer will care updating that lib.
I can imagine, that in some cases this scenario happen, but it would be rare. There will be far more likely a security problem in the application itself. For this scenario to happen you need:
1. Released stable library, that has security holes in some of its api
2. Application that uses this library and this api
3. The application has to be exposed to "hostile" environment (you don't care if a app has BO in it if you use it only yourself).
4. The hostile environment must be somehow able to go trough the application to exploit the vulnerable api.
1. 3. and 4. are extremely unlikely.
Solving dependency problems costs time and hence money.
That's the role of the developer to do that kind of checks. With the proper tools, it's easy to do, so it doesn't cost so much time (and hence money).
It really doesn't matter that much. Many developers write their software, test it and release it. They don't test it again when a new version of library appears (it costs them money). If the developer has more applications to maintain and the user base isn't big enough (many small but great application fall in this category) and compatibility problem appears, it could stay unfixed for long time, even forever. I'm talking from my own experiences - not making things up.
Actually, the "shitload of bloat duplicate binaries" is quite good. Nobody gives a damn about 10 MB of their disk space because the program takes it's libraries with it. However, everyone gives ten tones of damn when they can't install new application because of "dependency problem". Solving dependency problems costs time and hence money. Disk space is cheap.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying, that new Ubuntu does that, I'm just arguing against the philosophy of bad duplicate binaries.
With Qt, C++ is language that is quite hard to replace - pretty fast, very portable, very powerful and quite convenient for the developer.
As for the processing, the speed of normal computer would be sufficient, I'm not sure about a small device that can the singer have with him. Still, I think that the latency might be problem with cheap webcam - from my experiences I can say, that webcams do have noticeable latency.
The problem is delay. You would have to have expensive webcam and expensive computer in order not to have delay (half second is infinity). Moreover, when you look at the choirmaster, you can recognize that he is going to express the sign even before he actually does. This allows you to prepare. It would be hard to recognize this with such solution.
Yes. If the blackhole is supermassive, the spaghettification wouldn't take blace before entering the event horizon. The fun fact is, that from a distant observer, the astronaut would never go across the event horizon (due to time dilatation). And by never I mean do mean never. Until the end of time the astronaut will not cross the event horizon.
The next fun fact is, that because of hawking radiation, every blackhole will eventually evaporate. This means, that the astronaut can't actually cross the event horizon. Never.
I have used this and it really works. I have been forced to work near people who talked loudly so I combined earplugs with headphones with pretty loud sea waves sounds and I was able to concentrate just as if there was nobody around.
The minimum wage may not be "tech news", however, it is stuff that matters since it affects the economy of the USA and thus the economy of the whole world. I'm not from USA but I appreciate knowing about it.
Let's take Stephen Hawking as an example. He is thought to be one of the biggest geniuses nowadays. But if you ask common public member, what did he discover, most people won't be able to say a single thing. He published many books for general public, which made him good PR, he is disabled, which is good for such image too. The media think, that he is current Albert Einstein and hence the general public does.
To be sure somebody doesn't take me wrong, I took S.H. just as an example, I'm not by any means questioning his work.
It does not. QE binds particles in such a way, that when one particle is measured, the second is bound by this measurement. For example if you measure, that one particle has +1/2 spin, the second then has -1/2 spin. This is not transmission of information - you can't force one particle to have spin +1/2 and cause the second particle to have instantly -1/2 spin.
I will answer myself. They are talking about transporting quantum information or quantum state. Quantum information is _NOT_ the same as classical information. The summary is misleading in this way.
Instant teleportation of information according to STR violates causality. Is this a really serious science? Recycling state of quantum entanglement might be possible but as far as I know, quantum entangled particles don't "transport" information.
I don't argue that mathematics is ubiquitous in sciences, human interaction, society and the rest of the universe even in its pure form. I just say, what the word means for ordinary people and that we can not force them to change the way they understand it.
Integration, sin(x), statistic, differential equations and this stuff is, what makes mathematics useful in real life. I don't argue that the very core of mathematics consists of axioms, proofs, theories and so on, but for most people mathematics is the part of "math" that is most used.
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So in short, no, we can't
I think that Asian companies are not out of the game. They almost always use some kind of open solution for their devices, since nobody wants proprietary OS no apps for that. For now, they use Android, but they can try Ubuntu in the future too.
This is also for people. Of course the companies that own the ships traveling in that area are profiting from such protection, BUT - once again, the companies are just people, the shareholders, management, employees - those people benefit from the protection from pirates. The company as a juridical person doesn't care.
Another example would be: If I have company and the company and this company generates some profit. As long as I don't withdraw the money from my company, I can not use the money. The company can reinvest the money (before the end of fiscal year) and pay no taxes, or save the money (during the end of fiscal year) and pay the taxes. Even if the state for example by protecting its ships increases its profits, nothing changes, the money is still stuck in my company. If I want to collect my profits, the money will be taxed by income tax, otherwise my company will reinvest the money in some point in the future (inflation is the force causing this and is strong enough).
When I state it as simple as possible, income taxes are just forcing companies to reinvest their profits the same year and don't save anything for future.
It is not in vacuum it is the reality. When I create a company, the company starts to exist. Its money are not my money. When I want to use that money, I have to pay income tax. I'm the one who benefits from the things that society provides. The company does not, the company doesn't care.
I will not repeat this again. If you are going to react to my post, please try to be more specific than "your argument stinks" argument.
Company is abstract construct. Company doesn't care about anything, it is the people that are controlling it. When we say Google did this or that, it means people in Google in the name of the company did this or that. When people in Google decide to destroy it, the company won't fight back. When the company has the money, nobody benefits from that and thus there should be no tax from that money (inflation is good enough).