I'd upvote you if I could, but I can't. It really annoys me how the hell religious folk twist and bend words to their own meaning when it's clear what the intent is. It's almost as if being religious entitles you to misinterpret stuff and spin it towards your religion. That in itself puts me off the concept (bar from the fact it's bollocks). Religion enables the worst self-righteous individuals to push their views with a label to the detriment of all.
I live and work in London so yes. I drive in as well and park in E1 (Citroen C3 which is congestion charge exempt). It's not hard or stressful if you know what you are doing
The argument is definitely not moot. Opt-in vs Opt-out are completely different as there are opportunities for the opt in situation to occur before you get a chance to opt-out. Asking the user up front is the best approach (even Microsoft do this with Windows 8).
Some fair points. I suppose it depends what you are doing. I was working with embedded systems usually running way below 200MHz and had a HP logic analyser on hand so the scope was used primarily for analogue (this was before those funky LeCroy scopes/protocol analysers etc).
I think you got it wrong: "you should be able to turn it on in the privacy settings". Oh no wait, that's not how it works these days - privacy is opt in!
I wonder how much of this cash will go to the real heroes i.e. upstream people like Debian? Canonical is just a reseller/ISV as they call them in the market.
Most of these can be obtained for very little cash and I couldn't do without them:
A good old fashioned Tek 100-250MHz analogue scope. No DSO. No fancy stuff - just an analogue scope. This is the one bit of kit that has saved my butt a million times over. DSOs and new digital scopes are crap at picking up transients due to their crappy slew rate. The analogue scope will get you out of many a mess.
A couple of (you need at least 2) decent Fluke multimeters. These will save your life. It will fail safe in short/overvoltage conditions. I lost one of my beloved Fluke 76 to a 4Kv overvoltage situation. It went pop but I didn't. If it was any other multimeter, I wouldn't be here writing this.
A decent *linear dual rail* supply. Don't get two and stick them together - this is a pain in the arse and you'll get earthing problems from hell, especially when in the US as the mains there is funny. I've used old HP (circa late 1970s) and more recently Thurlby Thandar ones. Make sure they have short and over current protection otherwise fuck ups get quite expensive.
Make sure everything you buy has a service manual.
Get some decent goggles/safety glasses for the smoke test when you power up something you've made. I've avoided bits of LED and transistor blinding me a few times because I've cocked up.
I use a Weller PS2D soldering station that I've had for 20 years. I wouldn't swap it for anything.
Apart from that, anything you can get your hands on cheap. There is little requirement to blow lots of cash on anything really with the advent of eBay.
There is still no HTML5 form support worth mentioning. Even IE10 is better at that now. They've added a bit of support for validators but the rendering still sucks.
Yeah you are entitled to a replacement/repair for free. Tell them that. If they deny it, tell them that you're entitled to it and it's either replacement here and now or you'll phone your solicitor for advice. Make as much noise as possible to show that you're willing to put off other customers.
I've had to do this 3 times now on my kids iPod failures (knackered cables, battery failure, one 4th gen nano actually melted).
Also don't buy Apple again.
We now buy Lenovo laptops, Nokia phones (Lumia) and Archos media players now - no problems ever! Grab it from a respectable store such as John Lewis in the UK and you're sorted - they will NEVER argue with you.
Well that's your fault for downloading it from there. You wouldn't buy food from an unlicensed trader would you? I've never had any of that crap come down with a download.
Here we go. I've been through Yggdrasil, Slackware, Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu from 1997 to this year on x86, Sparc, Sun Ultra and PPC machines. They've all sucked.
The best attempt at a desktop so far is Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS6/RHEL6. Both of them offer the thing that is missing: completeness. Unfortunately, they still suffer from random hardware issues, inability to hibernate/resume/sleep, terrible power consumption, poor battery life (my 9+4 cell Lenovo T61 which lasts 11 hours in windows 7 versus 5.4 hours on Ubuntu 12.04).
Launchpad is a tribute to how shitty it is on the desktop. Literally thousands of unfixed bugs which poke almost every user in the eye on a daily basis. It's hell.
Bear in mind I come from a strong UNIX background (Really big Sun/Solaris installations - E10k,E15k stuff) so it's not foreign to me. It's just without polish, is buggy and utterly frustrating to use.
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I'd upvote you if I could, but I can't. It really annoys me how the hell religious folk twist and bend words to their own meaning when it's clear what the intent is. It's almost as if being religious entitles you to misinterpret stuff and spin it towards your religion. That in itself puts me off the concept (bar from the fact it's bollocks). Religion enables the worst self-righteous individuals to push their views with a label to the detriment of all.
I can see some cheezy James Bond plot being executed where Larry Elison launches a space shuttle from his evil island lair and installs Oracle on it.
I live and work in London so yes. I drive in as well and park in E1 (Citroen C3 which is congestion charge exempt). It's not hard or stressful if you know what you are doing
He should get a car. Taxis in London are very expensive - moreso than parking.
What about the fact mysql-server was just completely fucked in 10.04 LTS. We switched to Debian.
The argument is definitely not moot. Opt-in vs Opt-out are completely different as there are opportunities for the opt in situation to occur before you get a chance to opt-out. Asking the user up front is the best approach (even Microsoft do this with Windows 8).
Some fair points. I suppose it depends what you are doing. I was working with embedded systems usually running way below 200MHz and had a HP logic analyser on hand so the scope was used primarily for analogue (this was before those funky LeCroy scopes/protocol analysers etc).
I think you got it wrong: "you should be able to turn it on in the privacy settings". Oh no wait, that's not how it works these days - privacy is opt in!
I wonder how much of this cash will go to the real heroes i.e. upstream people like Debian? Canonical is just a reseller/ISV as they call them in the market.
Most of these can be obtained for very little cash and I couldn't do without them:
A good old fashioned Tek 100-250MHz analogue scope. No DSO. No fancy stuff - just an analogue scope. This is the one bit of kit that has saved my butt a million times over. DSOs and new digital scopes are crap at picking up transients due to their crappy slew rate. The analogue scope will get you out of many a mess.
A couple of (you need at least 2) decent Fluke multimeters. These will save your life. It will fail safe in short/overvoltage conditions. I lost one of my beloved Fluke 76 to a 4Kv overvoltage situation. It went pop but I didn't. If it was any other multimeter, I wouldn't be here writing this.
A decent *linear dual rail* supply. Don't get two and stick them together - this is a pain in the arse and you'll get earthing problems from hell, especially when in the US as the mains there is funny. I've used old HP (circa late 1970s) and more recently Thurlby Thandar ones. Make sure they have short and over current protection otherwise fuck ups get quite expensive.
Make sure everything you buy has a service manual.
Get some decent goggles/safety glasses for the smoke test when you power up something you've made. I've avoided bits of LED and transistor blinding me a few times because I've cocked up.
I use a Weller PS2D soldering station that I've had for 20 years. I wouldn't swap it for anything.
Apart from that, anything you can get your hands on cheap. There is little requirement to blow lots of cash on anything really with the advent of eBay.
There is still no HTML5 form support worth mentioning. Even IE10 is better at that now. They've added a bit of support for validators but the rendering still sucks.
Please fix it.
I pay £9.50 a month for my O2 unlimited connection. I can pull 250Gb over that fine and I run mail and web services off it as well.
Why don't they use an artificial centrifuge for surgical procedures (2001 style)?
But never his head... no wait - that's rotting in a box under the ground.
Now I know that, I've lost all respect for Woz. You can be principled, outspoken and respected. However, you can't be those and be a Mason.
One of the oaths is that you will help a fellow mason before anyone else, and that includes before the law of the land.
Yeah you are entitled to a replacement/repair for free. Tell them that. If they deny it, tell them that you're entitled to it and it's either replacement here and now or you'll phone your solicitor for advice. Make as much noise as possible to show that you're willing to put off other customers.
I've had to do this 3 times now on my kids iPod failures (knackered cables, battery failure, one 4th gen nano actually melted).
Also don't buy Apple again.
We now buy Lenovo laptops, Nokia phones (Lumia) and Archos media players now - no problems ever! Grab it from a respectable store such as John Lewis in the UK and you're sorted - they will NEVER argue with you.
Well that's your fault for downloading it from there. You wouldn't buy food from an unlicensed trader would you? I've never had any of that crap come down with a download.
You should try the medical profession. They are experts in lying about shit people do care about.
Market cap means precisely fuck all. I worked for a company with the highest market cap on the FTSE100 for 2 weeks. They don't exist any more.
Elaboration here: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3149609&cid=41492873
Here we go. I've been through Yggdrasil, Slackware, Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu from 1997 to this year on x86, Sparc, Sun Ultra and PPC machines. They've all sucked.
The best attempt at a desktop so far is Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS6/RHEL6. Both of them offer the thing that is missing: completeness. Unfortunately, they still suffer from random hardware issues, inability to hibernate/resume/sleep, terrible power consumption, poor battery life (my 9+4 cell Lenovo T61 which lasts 11 hours in windows 7 versus 5.4 hours on Ubuntu 12.04).
Launchpad is a tribute to how shitty it is on the desktop. Literally thousands of unfixed bugs which poke almost every user in the eye on a daily basis. It's hell.
Bear in mind I come from a strong UNIX background (Really big Sun/Solaris installations - E10k,E15k stuff) so it's not foreign to me. It's just without polish, is buggy and utterly frustrating to use.
WIN - nice work :)
Same on iPads. Windows 8 on ARM is basically an iPad. What's the issue?
You are right. Absolutely noone actually gave a fuck apart from a few zealots on Slashdot and about 10 people at a couple of browser vendors.
You don't get to choose what operating system your ECU uses do you?
IE is a blob of software. Its use is inconsequential.