Because there are multiple stages here. The next one is all the browser authors deciding that their browser will support this new API. If at least one major browser doesn't support the API, it's just as fragmented as if there had been no standard in the first place. And frankly, I hope that turns out to be the case.
pkgconfig is a GNOME library control mechanism, not a Linux one. The fact that 90% of the programs you use use it says more about you than it does about developers.
Regarding a professional-grade tool... Free Software never really offers that. You can get close, and sometimes you get lucky, but for the most part, there is no free ride. Generally, the best you can hope for is a commercial closed-source application that works well in an otherwise Free Software environment. It's icing on the cake when the vendor of such software offers a Free version of it (e.g. Codeweavers and Crossover vs WINE).
I know somebody who had to work with Microsoft Word a great deal, because people insist on sending her Word documents. Word frequently locked up and crashed, so she started using LibreOffice to open the documents. Since that decision she has never had lockups or crashes opening Word documents and she can do nearly everything just as well or better: the only thing that won't work is Word macros, but then, they are really only used to deliver viruses, so that's probably not a bad thing.
The problem is not about preventing people from copying works. The problem is that the current system of monetizing creative works is based on a scarcity model of physical media that doesn't function any more. Instead of putting a lot of effort into trying to fix a broken system, we need to be looking at ways that society as a whole can reward creators that doesn't depend on them "selling" certain numbers of itemizable media, like books or downloads.
It wasn't always the case that artists' revenue depended on sales. In Roman civilisation and even in medieval courts, artists were retained by wealthy individuals simply for the kudos of it. There's nothing to stop that situation or a similar system happening again. Of course, there's no room in that picture for the entrepreneurs that are fighting for the current system, but that strikes me as not a bad thing at all. Everyone else benefits.
It should be noted that animal rights extremism is one of those nastiest "-ism"s out there. They're uniformly odd (gay, vegan, left-wing, what not) not-very-bright, hyper-emotional, irrational and violent, not to mention, annoying. In otherwise, extremism and violence-prone personalities.
Who modded this "insightful"? It's the worst kind of redneck bigoted crap I've heard in a while.
Exactly. Pretty funny that this article was followed almost immediately by one on how the IRS has a policy of reading your private email without a warrant.
A doctorate is not training, which you are implying by saying "that other training".
A doctorate is research to push back the boundaries of human knowledge. You are already trained in your field before you start the research.
I can see your general thrust, but I think you're a little wide of the mark.
1. A console may be subjectively a necessity to some. This is not about necessity.
2. True, although the state can be managed in the cloud and increasingly is.
3. Same as point 2.
4. Falls under the same condition of "not having a 24-hour internet connection" - exactly where you get the connection from is not relevant to the question.
The point here is that he is exactly correct in his analysis that it is the same with vacuum cleaners and their power supply. If your electric power supply is inconsistent or intermittent, you would be unwise to buy a vacuum cleaner that depends on that power supply. You certainly wouldn't buy one, then wait around for the time that the electric comes on, and then jump on it and do the housework, which is what he is proposing.
Average people used personal computers for years before GUIs were widespread. Even my mother, who has difficulty working Mac OS X, was fairly happy using WordPerfect on MS-DOS to do all her word processing. As far as I am aware she never read a manual to do so. We had affordable home computers in the UK from Sinclair and Acorn (the BBC Micro was a staple of many households) to start with, and IBM 8086 PC clones from the likes of Amstrad and Elonex later which were well within the means of most. Yes, you had to load software from tapes or 5and a half inch floppies, but that was not complicated in any way, hardly masochism.
In the UK we still have MANY industrial and business software systems which still work without a GUI. Until a few years ago our entire police force database was GUI-less. Most of these use some ancient dBase III or ncurses-like database form system, and they're there because they still work just fine for the purpose they were intended for (including training new users on how to work the system). For many applications GUIs just get in the way: it's easier to tab, tab, type, tab, enter than it is to cope with the myriad of possibilities about "what happens if I do X while I am doing Y?"
If you started doing this you would quickly realize that you would have to subscribe to a whole raft of companies in the business of tracking and profiling you.
Your only real recourse is to take responsibility for your own privacy, and learn the various mechanisms by which you can defeat their attempts to capture the information and/or devalue the quality of the information they obtain such that they have little economic incentive to do so.
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It's British ISPs - Taylor Swift listeners in Britain probably wouldn't fill a bus shelter.
cf. John Gilmore: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
It is for hackers.
They're just not in the interest of right-thinking citizens!
Because there are multiple stages here. The next one is all the browser authors deciding that their browser will support this new API. If at least one major browser doesn't support the API, it's just as fragmented as if there had been no standard in the first place. And frankly, I hope that turns out to be the case.
pkgconfig is a GNOME library control mechanism, not a Linux one. The fact that 90% of the programs you use use it says more about you than it does about developers.
Bullets do.
Ammunition is what needs to be controlled. And there is not currently any plan for 3D printable ammunition.
You haven't actually used GIMP in the last 10 years, have you?
Regarding a professional-grade tool ... Free Software never really offers that. You can get close, and sometimes you get lucky, but for the most part, there is no free ride. Generally, the best you can hope for is a commercial closed-source application that works well in an otherwise Free Software environment. It's icing on the cake when the vendor of such software offers a Free version of it (e.g. Codeweavers and Crossover vs WINE).
I know somebody who had to work with Microsoft Word a great deal, because people insist on sending her Word documents. Word frequently locked up and crashed, so she started using LibreOffice to open the documents. Since that decision she has never had lockups or crashes opening Word documents and she can do nearly everything just as well or better: the only thing that won't work is Word macros, but then, they are really only used to deliver viruses, so that's probably not a bad thing.
The problem is not about preventing people from copying works. The problem is that the current system of monetizing creative works is based on a scarcity model of physical media that doesn't function any more. Instead of putting a lot of effort into trying to fix a broken system, we need to be looking at ways that society as a whole can reward creators that doesn't depend on them "selling" certain numbers of itemizable media, like books or downloads.
It wasn't always the case that artists' revenue depended on sales. In Roman civilisation and even in medieval courts, artists were retained by wealthy individuals simply for the kudos of it. There's nothing to stop that situation or a similar system happening again. Of course, there's no room in that picture for the entrepreneurs that are fighting for the current system, but that strikes me as not a bad thing at all. Everyone else benefits.
is not a Latin name.
It should be noted that animal rights extremism is one of those nastiest "-ism"s out there. They're uniformly odd (gay, vegan, left-wing, what not) not-very-bright, hyper-emotional, irrational and violent, not to mention, annoying. In otherwise, extremism and violence-prone personalities.
Who modded this "insightful"? It's the worst kind of redneck bigoted crap I've heard in a while.
is if the drone got pecked to death by real birds.
Exactly. Pretty funny that this article was followed almost immediately by one on how the IRS has a policy of reading your private email without a warrant.
...I have NO OPTION except ...
"No option except" is not no option, is it?
A doctorate is not training, which you are implying by saying "that other training". A doctorate is research to push back the boundaries of human knowledge. You are already trained in your field before you start the research.
Slay -> slew -> slain.
I can see your general thrust, but I think you're a little wide of the mark.
The point here is that he is exactly correct in his analysis that it is the same with vacuum cleaners and their power supply. If your electric power supply is inconsistent or intermittent, you would be unwise to buy a vacuum cleaner that depends on that power supply. You certainly wouldn't buy one, then wait around for the time that the electric comes on, and then jump on it and do the housework, which is what he is proposing.
Average people used personal computers for years before GUIs were widespread. Even my mother, who has difficulty working Mac OS X, was fairly happy using WordPerfect on MS-DOS to do all her word processing. As far as I am aware she never read a manual to do so. We had affordable home computers in the UK from Sinclair and Acorn (the BBC Micro was a staple of many households) to start with, and IBM 8086 PC clones from the likes of Amstrad and Elonex later which were well within the means of most. Yes, you had to load software from tapes or 5and a half inch floppies, but that was not complicated in any way, hardly masochism. In the UK we still have MANY industrial and business software systems which still work without a GUI. Until a few years ago our entire police force database was GUI-less. Most of these use some ancient dBase III or ncurses-like database form system, and they're there because they still work just fine for the purpose they were intended for (including training new users on how to work the system). For many applications GUIs just get in the way: it's easier to tab, tab, type, tab, enter than it is to cope with the myriad of possibilities about "what happens if I do X while I am doing Y?"
They're adding new stuff. Nothing old is being changed or removed.
Actually the old JavaScript engine is being removed and replaced with a completely new implementation.
Given how many undocumented hoops you had to jump through to do anything useful with the last one, I'm really not looking forward to this.
While I do agree that this is a guaranteed way to learn all the aspects of the new system, for a completely new user this borders on masochism.
So before there were GUIs, all computer users were masochists? I don't think so.
But pressuring the company to avoid running it (or showing it on TV...) gets into MY rights to decide for myself.
Who is applying pressure? Nobody in this story.
If you started doing this you would quickly realize that you would have to subscribe to a whole raft of companies in the business of tracking and profiling you.
Your only real recourse is to take responsibility for your own privacy, and learn the various mechanisms by which you can defeat their attempts to capture the information and/or devalue the quality of the information they obtain such that they have little economic incentive to do so.
Pair programming does not require that both parties are in the same place, only that they both review the same code.
This.