You're making some assumptions about things you can't know. For instance, what if your dog is looking at you for some indication about what to do next and not looking at you to ask why you turned off the toy.
Apple don't seem too shy to create proprietary connectors.
Why not a magnetic headphone jack for their phones that's similar to the magsafe on their laptops?
This way they would need less interior space for a plug to intrude into the guts of the phone while making it easier and safer to connect your ear buds.
So with the example of the North Koreans within artillery range the South Koreans decided that what they really needed to do was build a massive all-powerful government?
And then you write in your diary something like "I've seen things today. Things you people wouldn't believe. I've seen dust motes swirling off the shoulder of my cat Orion..."
It's a pain the butt to "servicify" any arbitrary executable (one which hasn't been specifically built for such a scenario) such that it starts and stops with the OS without a particular user being logged in-- a task that's trivial on Linux especially if you're using nodejs (for example, use pm2 if you want a really sweet process manager).
We wound up using Non-Sucking Service Manager to accomplish this.
I'm not totally averse to such solutions, but it's really disappointing that M$ hasn't bothered to supply such a tool and leaves users to fend for themselves. With Linux there's no assumptions: it's very much geared for DIY and you get what you pay for. What are we paying M$ for if not to provide exactly these kinds of tools? If I have to scrounge around and curse and kick things into working then why not just use Linux on my server for free with less hassle?
You still have to reboot them for no good reason, but with load balancing that's not really an issue.
Rebooting a server?! Is this some kind of joke?
No, I don't consider Windows to be a good server OS.
I didn't speak out when they came for the Jews because I wasn't a Jew so I had nothing to hide...
I didn't speak out when they started censoring all information about Tianamen Square because I wasn't Chinese...
I didn't speak out when political dissidents were being doxed, harrassed, bullied, fired, fined, imprisoned and even executed because I wasn't a dissident or I didn't live in Thailand etc....
I didn't speak out because I never expected such things to happen here in the glorious utopia of the West where we're all so far above all that petty nonsense because we're such perfect ubermensch and our politicians are sublimely moral...
They know who you are and what sites you surf to. It's only the other people reading posts that you're "anonymous" to.
Still, anonymous posting would help prevent random idle IRS agents from just finding you... or, more realistically, prevent random assholes from doxing you.
Agreed. So spank the "conservatives" when they expand government power.
And we should always, consistently, vote to decrease government power in every election.
What? Pointing out that righties enjoy big government? Of course, only when it is against _them_ (black people, atheists, muslims, immigrants). It's always been true.
Which "righties" are you talking about?
As far as I can tell American conservatives have always been in favor of limited government.
Total War: Shogun 2 and Attilla and Empire?
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided?
XCOM and XCOM 2?
Metro 2033 and Last Light?
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor?
Pillars of Eternity?
All the Valve games?
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare?
Antichamber?
HITMAN (2016)?
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
And those are just some of the games I have in my own collection on Steam. There's way more out there.
I won't say Linux is up to par with Windows for the sheer number of titles. But if you've got more games on the platform than you have time to play then what more could you ask for???
Actually, what I want is the government to represent the best interests of the population.
1. Who decides what the best interests are? According to what standards?
2. Aren't people already deciding what's in their best interests by either buying or ignoring this product?
It's coordination, not coercion.
What if I don't want to coordinate or I want to opt-out in a way that doesn't disturb those who do want to coordinate? Am I allowed to do that? If no then isn't it coercion?
What if the law was simply that a company cannot alter EULAs or such agreements unilaterally?
Would that be a reasonable compromise between our positions?
Unfettered capitalism is ultimately only slightly better for society than unfettered communism. Large corporations can act as a single entity, while consumers are sufficiently segmented that in most cases coordination is unlikely.
I have mixed feelings about this.
I want to agree with you, especially the part about consumers being sufficiently segmented and thus uncoordinated.
But then, if most of the people are acting in their own self interests, and the market goes in some given direction... then isn't that basically the same as saying that the maximum amount of people have had their needs satisfied even if it's not my own preference? The only thing left to do is to try and argue the masses out of it and perhaps they'll all agree that some change is needed.
The response is to change the market via legislation, and let the companies adapt to the new reality, rather than attempt boycotting them. A boycott - even if successful - only ensures they get sneakier about future attempts at the same goal.
This is not good.
This is worse than a corporation sneakily abusing their customers.
If you don't like a company's products then don't buy them. You can make your own or buy from a competitor or modify the product or something.
You can't opt out of government having power over you and forcing you to behave according to its often capricious laws.
Furthermore, what if your political opponents take power in the government and then turn those same laws against you?
So I must disagree with you. You want to get the government to force others to behave according to your wishes.
That's not better than a company releasing products that abuse you only if you buy them.
Consent. It's a thing. And it makes a difference.
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Because fools continue to buy and support proprietary hardware and software.
I don't remember voting for you to be the One True Judge of how much money anyone needs or should ever have.
So these rocket taxis... do they count as flying cars?
Also, is life insurance part of the ticket price?
"Living" organisms haven't even gray goo'd the planet much less the universe. These nanobots won't be any different.
You're making some assumptions about things you can't know. For instance, what if your dog is looking at you for some indication about what to do next and not looking at you to ask why you turned off the toy.
You realize that you can install any DE you want, right? XFCE, LXDE, and many others are right there in the software repos waiting to be installed.
What if the GUI designers and developers gave the users the ability to configure their desktop? i.e. A checkbox for whether or not to enable the dock.
Apple don't seem too shy to create proprietary connectors.
Why not a magnetic headphone jack for their phones that's similar to the magsafe on their laptops?
This way they would need less interior space for a plug to intrude into the guts of the phone while making it easier and safer to connect your ear buds.
The best solution is to have a professional society that elects boards to review submissions for official taxonomical names.
Your solution to the problem of corruption in the scientific community is to add money to the equation?
So with the example of the North Koreans within artillery range the South Koreans decided that what they really needed to do was build a massive all-powerful government?
And then you write in your diary something like "I've seen things today. Things you people wouldn't believe. I've seen dust motes swirling off the shoulder of my cat Orion..."
But which is the bad data? The data leading up to the current measurements or the current measurements?
We wound up using Non-Sucking Service Manager to accomplish this.
I'm not totally averse to such solutions, but it's really disappointing that M$ hasn't bothered to supply such a tool and leaves users to fend for themselves. With Linux there's no assumptions: it's very much geared for DIY and you get what you pay for. What are we paying M$ for if not to provide exactly these kinds of tools? If I have to scrounge around and curse and kick things into working then why not just use Linux on my server for free with less hassle?
You still have to reboot them for no good reason, but with load balancing that's not really an issue.
Rebooting a server?! Is this some kind of joke?
No, I don't consider Windows to be a good server OS.
FDIC doesn't guarantee the value of currency, only of savings.
I'll go a step further: how will the FDIC guarantee the value of savings if it can't guarantee the value of currency?
Bottom line: if your government collapses then your money is worth less than toilet paper and isn't nearly as absorbent.
Buy land. If something comes along that is capable of destroying your land then you've bigger problems than your investment to worry about.
US production per worker is currently about $58,000 [google.com], and seems to be going up by $10,000 per decade.
Prove that this is due to productivity gains and isn't due to inflation.
You posted anonymously... and then signed your post??????
I didn't speak out when they came for the Jews because I wasn't a Jew so I had nothing to hide... ...
I didn't speak out when they started censoring all information about Tianamen Square because I wasn't Chinese...
I didn't speak out when political dissidents were being doxed, harrassed, bullied, fired, fined, imprisoned and even executed because I wasn't a dissident or I didn't live in Thailand etc.
I didn't speak out because I never expected such things to happen here in the glorious utopia of the West where we're all so far above all that petty nonsense because we're such perfect ubermensch and our politicians are sublimely moral...
They know who you are and what sites you surf to. It's only the other people reading posts that you're "anonymous" to.
Still, anonymous posting would help prevent random idle IRS agents from just finding you... or, more realistically, prevent random assholes from doxing you.
Agreed. So spank the "conservatives" when they expand government power.
And we should always, consistently, vote to decrease government power in every election.
What? Pointing out that righties enjoy big government? Of course, only when it is against _them_ (black people, atheists, muslims, immigrants). It's always been true.
Which "righties" are you talking about?
As far as I can tell American conservatives have always been in favor of limited government.
How did this blatant straw man attack get modded up?!
Total War: Shogun 2 and Attilla and Empire?
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided?
XCOM and XCOM 2?
Metro 2033 and Last Light?
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor?
Pillars of Eternity?
All the Valve games?
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare?
Antichamber?
HITMAN (2016)?
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?
And those are just some of the games I have in my own collection on Steam. There's way more out there.
I won't say Linux is up to par with Windows for the sheer number of titles. But if you've got more games on the platform than you have time to play then what more could you ask for???
What if you got a hosting plan somewhere with a huge drive and just set up a cron job with rsync once a week?
Actually, what I want is the government to represent the best interests of the population.
1. Who decides what the best interests are? According to what standards?
2. Aren't people already deciding what's in their best interests by either buying or ignoring this product?
It's coordination, not coercion.
What if I don't want to coordinate or I want to opt-out in a way that doesn't disturb those who do want to coordinate? Am I allowed to do that? If no then isn't it coercion?
What if the law was simply that a company cannot alter EULAs or such agreements unilaterally?
Would that be a reasonable compromise between our positions?
Unfettered capitalism is ultimately only slightly better for society than unfettered communism. Large corporations can act as a single entity, while consumers are sufficiently segmented that in most cases coordination is unlikely.
I have mixed feelings about this.
I want to agree with you, especially the part about consumers being sufficiently segmented and thus uncoordinated.
But then, if most of the people are acting in their own self interests, and the market goes in some given direction... then isn't that basically the same as saying that the maximum amount of people have had their needs satisfied even if it's not my own preference? The only thing left to do is to try and argue the masses out of it and perhaps they'll all agree that some change is needed.
The response is to change the market via legislation, and let the companies adapt to the new reality, rather than attempt boycotting them. A boycott - even if successful - only ensures they get sneakier about future attempts at the same goal.
This is not good.
This is worse than a corporation sneakily abusing their customers.
If you don't like a company's products then don't buy them. You can make your own or buy from a competitor or modify the product or something.
You can't opt out of government having power over you and forcing you to behave according to its often capricious laws.
Furthermore, what if your political opponents take power in the government and then turn those same laws against you?
So I must disagree with you. You want to get the government to force others to behave according to your wishes.
That's not better than a company releasing products that abuse you only if you buy them.
Consent. It's a thing. And it makes a difference.