20 years ago your phone never went down, it just worked. Always...
... on the other hand, you could only use it within a few feet of the wall jack - depending on how long your handset cord was. And if you had a wireless handset (as most people did by then), you were SOL even if the phone line itself was technically still up.
We kept an old Bell Slimline phone plugged into the phone jack in the bedroom for exactly this reason.
They changed to mountain ranges with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
"Mavericks" was named after a popular surfing location in California. Then they moved on to various Yosemite Park features, and most recently Humphrey Bogart movies.
My iPhone 6S will soon be 3 generations “behind”... but it does everything I want, and still gets security patches (as does its predecessor). Apple has apparently realized this - after all, they spent 1/3 of their iPhone spotlight event talking about how their glorious and great newest iPhone’s best feature was... turning yourself into a talking poop emoji. Oh, and they’ve once again made incremental improvements on the camera. Woo hoo!
It’s not like it’s any different on the Android side, either.
If you have a smartphone that was purchased within the past 4-5 years, and the phone is not physically broken - there’s just not a compelling reason to throw another $800-1000 at these companies.
Sourceforge offers git, so it seems like a perfectly reasonable bit of self-promotion to add. And it’s not like Whipslash is removing mentions of the other possible places people might consider migrating to.
Z Shell’s home is on SourceForge. If I wanted to take the time, I could come up with other prominent SF denizens for you - but regardless it’s apparent not everyone shares your sentiments.
The current owners do seem to be trying to turn SF back into a useful home for open-source projects. It looks to me like they've removed most/all of the crappy behaviors put in place by Certain previous owners. It’s not the only game in town... but it’s a legitimate competitor again.
And I’ll be staying away. Philosophically, I’m more closely aligned with the Mozilla folks than with people like Eich - but Mozilla demonstrated that bullying and intolerance exist on both sides of the political spectrum, and I’m not going to overlook it just because their on “my” side.
So, for me, the only viable choice is Safari. I have to keep Chrome and Firefox around for testing, but they’re limited to that role.
Is that sort of analogous to a decade ago when Apple stopped selling servers? Meaning, practically speaking, they already weren’t selling them but finally admitted it to themselves?
Assuming you're not talking about strictly personal projects, that means managing your own internet-facing servers. What could possibly go wrong with an amateur doing that?
At least some of us already manage internet-facing servers for a living. And while no protocol is problem-free, ssh should be easier to keep secure than most.
But that’s mainly speaking to the people who use GitHub for work purposes. Adding a web interface, like you’d probably want to do for community projects, would indeed increase the degree of difficulty.
Youtube doesn't need to provide professional help for these attention seeking assholes.
As someone who is not a mental health professional, I feel free to speculate that the need these people have to obsessively pursue YouTube stardom just might be correlated with their apparent emotional and psychological fragility.
But it’s also true that these mega-stars of the platform deserve at least some of the credit for its popularity.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the 1950s all over again.
"Hello, My Line, do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
"Hello, My Line, is your refrigerator running?"
20 years ago your phone never went down, it just worked. Always...
... on the other hand, you could only use it within a few feet of the wall jack - depending on how long your handset cord was. And if you had a wireless handset (as most people did by then), you were SOL even if the phone line itself was technically still up.
We kept an old Bell Slimline phone plugged into the phone jack in the bedroom for exactly this reason.
Obviously, the tri-state area can only mean the Cincinnati area. There are no other points on the map where 3 states meet. /sarc
Just in case someone overlooks the "sarcasm" tag... here's why it was a sarcastic comment
Massachussetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas.
Oregon, California, Nevada.
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming.
I could go on...
Well, it does rule out the four corners region.
Well, perhaps it's bad in three of those states, but Arizona got spared thanks to the heroic efforts of Joe Arpaio...
I haven’t had to sign into an app for months - complaining about that would require setting a really low bar.
But I realize Apple needs to try and sell newer hardware to people.
Blame Canada.
Two front-page, back-to-back stories maligning Tesla and Space-X, by the same submitter.
Is either story untrue? Both seem easy to fact-check.
They changed to mountain ranges with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
"Mavericks" was named after a popular surfing location in California. Then they moved on to various Yosemite Park features, and most recently Humphrey Bogart movies.
Side note: I was being sarcastic, but that's kind of irrelevant now that I've spat coffee all over my laptop. :-D
My work here is done!
"Amazon has been going full steam ahead when it comes to hiring and now employs over 500,000 people."
That's good - when the economy seems to be heating up too much, the government can ask Jeff "Zorg" Bezos to quietly fire 500,000.
Advertise that you're too poor to afford a new fashion accessory every year?
Dude, look at my username - that ship has sailed.
Git#
I like to use the current Z Shell on my Mac, and they recently pushed an update - so it was fresh in my mind.
(Why bother with the overhead - and sometimes version lag - of MacPorts or Fink just to keep a couple pieces of software around?)
My iPhone 6S will soon be 3 generations “behind”... but it does everything I want, and still gets security patches (as does its predecessor). Apple has apparently realized this - after all, they spent 1/3 of their iPhone spotlight event talking about how their glorious and great newest iPhone’s best feature was... turning yourself into a talking poop emoji. Oh, and they’ve once again made incremental improvements on the camera. Woo hoo!
It’s not like it’s any different on the Android side, either.
If you have a smartphone that was purchased within the past 4-5 years, and the phone is not physically broken - there’s just not a compelling reason to throw another $800-1000 at these companies.
Sourceforge offers git, so it seems like a perfectly reasonable bit of self-promotion to add. And it’s not like Whipslash is removing mentions of the other possible places people might consider migrating to.
Z Shell’s home is on SourceForge. If I wanted to take the time, I could come up with other prominent SF denizens for you - but regardless it’s apparent not everyone shares your sentiments.
The current owners do seem to be trying to turn SF back into a useful home for open-source projects. It looks to me like they've removed most/all of the crappy behaviors put in place by Certain previous owners. It’s not the only game in town... but it’s a legitimate competitor again.
This is pretty typical MS.
Agreed. However I don’t think this is “Sinister Microsoft”... if anything, this is the much more common “Tone-Deaf Microsoft”.
No, change it to Not Their File System.
“Firehose Favorites” are blue. This is only the second or third one I’ve seen since Whipslash talked about it quite a while ago.
Fortunately for pilots, there are no police cars or concrete dividers in the sky.
Sir, are you unfamiliar with the documentary film The Fifth Element?
”This attack works in Chrome and Firefox, but has been fixed in recent versions.”
In other words, this is a clever exploit of a bug - not a fundamental issue with CSS. The rest is FUD.
They have GELFs in Red Dwarf....
And I’ll be staying away. Philosophically, I’m more closely aligned with the Mozilla folks than with people like Eich - but Mozilla demonstrated that bullying and intolerance exist on both sides of the political spectrum, and I’m not going to overlook it just because their on “my” side.
So, for me, the only viable choice is Safari. I have to keep Chrome and Firefox around for testing, but they’re limited to that role.
Is that sort of analogous to a decade ago when Apple stopped selling servers? Meaning, practically speaking, they already weren’t selling them but finally admitted it to themselves?
Assuming you're not talking about strictly personal projects, that means managing your own internet-facing servers. What could possibly go wrong with an amateur doing that?
At least some of us already manage internet-facing servers for a living. And while no protocol is problem-free, ssh should be easier to keep secure than most.
But that’s mainly speaking to the people who use GitHub for work purposes. Adding a web interface, like you’d probably want to do for community projects, would indeed increase the degree of difficulty.
Youtube doesn't need to provide professional help for these attention seeking assholes.
As someone who is not a mental health professional, I feel free to speculate that the need these people have to obsessively pursue YouTube stardom just might be correlated with their apparent emotional and psychological fragility.
But it’s also true that these mega-stars of the platform deserve at least some of the credit for its popularity.