The Surface line is no threat. I'm typing this on an Asus Vivobook S200E ultraportable (i3-3217U, 4GB, 11.6", aluminum chassis, USB 3.0, $430 new + $80 more for a nice SATA-III SSD to upgrade with; basically what I call a "better MacBook Air than a MacBook Air") that makes a Surface Pro look like total garbage and is almost the same physical size. Laptops continue to be the king of "I actually have work to get done" portable computing larger than a smartphone. Tablets trying to be laptops are just plain junk, especially when you drop the "Pro" and just get a Surface that can't run anything useful at all other than a browser.
I'm waiting for the Surface thing to fade away. I'm surprised it sticks around at all; it's about time for an HP TouchPad-style fire sale. *stares at watch*
Critical components on freedesktop.org now have mandatory systemd dependencies. To continue receiving bug and security fixes, those "mandatory systemd" versions must be adopted by distros, that is unless they don't want things like udev, evdev, GNOME, etc. Distros are adopting systemd because they really do have no choice. Red Hat crowbarred it into so many important things (or absorbed those things into systemd entirely) that the effort required to dump it is growing faster than people can fork away.
Your distro of choice shoves it down your throat because Red Hat tainted things with it that are MANDATORY for supporting fundamental features of an interactive graphical desktop system. Red Hat is essentially the late-90's Microsoft of the Linux world. People love to blame Poettering but the truth is that Red Hat is his employer and Red Hat is the driving force that's jamming this unwanted garbage down everyone's craw. It's classic "embrace, extend, extinguish."
Except the people who control systemd (Red Hat) and the people who control everything on freedesktop.org (Red Hat) are the same, and that power is being used to crowbar systemd dependency into absolutely critical components on freedesktop.org that every significant Linux graphical desktop environment relies on. The real problem here is that Red Hat controls critical Linux ecosystem components and has used that control to force people to do what they want. Shout about "open source" and "choice" and "forks" all you want but the fact remains that the manpower required to maintain "no systemd dependency" forks is increasing exponentially, and even a user who can maintain one or two forks could simply never hope to maintain them all.
What will end up happening is people who don't want it and can't find working forks that don't force it down their throats will stick with old versions. That means less security, unfixed bugs, and no more enhancements. Eventually that will crowd out anyone who buys new hardware because old software doesn't recognize and/or work with the new hardware.
If systemd had not absorbed all the important freedesktop.org projects and was not a hard dependency for GNOME and other important things, the vitriol would not happen. As long as Red Hat continues trying to box people into their vision of how things should work and use tactics befitting late-90's Microsoft to slowly choke out alternatives, the hatred of systemd and the vocal backlash against it will continue and the backlash is completely justified and proper.
Open source is irrelevant when a significant number of critical projects required to build a functioning graphical desktop are tied to the undesirable project. It's hard to maintain a fork as it is, but 10 forks? 20 forks? At some point the hard dependency on systemd eventually boxes in everyone.
The problem is that the people receiving coverage are the ones whose religious beliefs or lack thereof need protecting. It should be up to the individual paying for THEIR health coverage to decide whether or not contraception options should be included for THEMSELVES. Hobby Lobby should not be allowed to force its religious beliefs onto its employees through taking away legally mandated health coverage OPTIONS.
Ex parte petitions are how the Business Software Alliance (BSA) gets the local sheriff deputies and police to help them conduct jack-booted thug raids on businesses. I agree strongly: the standards for proof should be extremely high.
It might seem awful Reddit of me, but [citation needed]. You can't get away with arguing the regulations protect "the little people" without citing a source that shows that they actually protect said people. Most of the regulations look to me like they're there (A) to erect a huge entry barrier for the taxi industry so the taxicab companies can have an effective monopoly, and (B) to extract extra tax from people who take taxicabs.
Make no mistake, cities fight this so vehemently because it hurts their revenue stream.
I have not read (nor do I ever intend to read) every single peer-reviewed paper on this subject (it's honestly not a very interesting subject). I also have yet to see this paper come up in any of the AGW post discussions on Slashdot. In any case, thanks for bringing it up.
This. I don't understand how it is that in all these discussions, no one ever talks about the problems with the monitoring stations. Something tells me having a grill near a temperature sensor or mounting a temperature sensor above a trash burn barrel or behind a jet aircraft runway just might cause some problems.
But hey, I'm not a climate scientist with a fancy degree, so I suppose my application of fundamental common sense doesn't matter. The science is settled, right? Settled right above tasty seared meat! Anyone want an AGW filet mignon?
I appreciate hearing this. I wish more people would listen. And now I'm going to rant about something that it made me think about...
It's really hard to "pay women less than men for the same work" (why wouldn't any good old capitalist company NOT want to take advantage of such if it were actually true?!) when the women are too smart in the first place to fall into the spike-filled pits that are those crummy tech jobs offered by Google et al.
Some people say women aren't interested; I say women see what goes on and have the good sense to avoid the shitty conditions for meager pay that are the modern I.T. jobs, especially since those jobs get to compete with de facto slaves that are crushed under the thumb of the H-1B visas. All this is is an attempt by Google to sucker the ladies in to improve appearances.
Ah yes, let's semantically slice the fuck out of every last thing that someone else says that we dislike to further our anti-male sexist agenda. That ALWAYS makes us appear intellectually superior and exposes that evil patriarchy shit that we blame everything on because we're too busy trying to feel like we're making society better to make an actual effort to succeed in the workplace.
Then we get the "reading comprehension" bullshit that feminazis love to fall back on. There's no substance in anything you say. GTFO troll.
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The Surface line is no threat. I'm typing this on an Asus Vivobook S200E ultraportable (i3-3217U, 4GB, 11.6", aluminum chassis, USB 3.0, $430 new + $80 more for a nice SATA-III SSD to upgrade with; basically what I call a "better MacBook Air than a MacBook Air") that makes a Surface Pro look like total garbage and is almost the same physical size. Laptops continue to be the king of "I actually have work to get done" portable computing larger than a smartphone. Tablets trying to be laptops are just plain junk, especially when you drop the "Pro" and just get a Surface that can't run anything useful at all other than a browser.
I'm waiting for the Surface thing to fade away. I'm surprised it sticks around at all; it's about time for an HP TouchPad-style fire sale. *stares at watch*
No.
Critical components on freedesktop.org now have mandatory systemd dependencies. To continue receiving bug and security fixes, those "mandatory systemd" versions must be adopted by distros, that is unless they don't want things like udev, evdev, GNOME, etc. Distros are adopting systemd because they really do have no choice. Red Hat crowbarred it into so many important things (or absorbed those things into systemd entirely) that the effort required to dump it is growing faster than people can fork away.
Your distro of choice shoves it down your throat because Red Hat tainted things with it that are MANDATORY for supporting fundamental features of an interactive graphical desktop system. Red Hat is essentially the late-90's Microsoft of the Linux world. People love to blame Poettering but the truth is that Red Hat is his employer and Red Hat is the driving force that's jamming this unwanted garbage down everyone's craw. It's classic "embrace, extend, extinguish."
Except the people who control systemd (Red Hat) and the people who control everything on freedesktop.org (Red Hat) are the same, and that power is being used to crowbar systemd dependency into absolutely critical components on freedesktop.org that every significant Linux graphical desktop environment relies on. The real problem here is that Red Hat controls critical Linux ecosystem components and has used that control to force people to do what they want. Shout about "open source" and "choice" and "forks" all you want but the fact remains that the manpower required to maintain "no systemd dependency" forks is increasing exponentially, and even a user who can maintain one or two forks could simply never hope to maintain them all.
What will end up happening is people who don't want it and can't find working forks that don't force it down their throats will stick with old versions. That means less security, unfixed bugs, and no more enhancements. Eventually that will crowd out anyone who buys new hardware because old software doesn't recognize and/or work with the new hardware.
If systemd had not absorbed all the important freedesktop.org projects and was not a hard dependency for GNOME and other important things, the vitriol would not happen. As long as Red Hat continues trying to box people into their vision of how things should work and use tactics befitting late-90's Microsoft to slowly choke out alternatives, the hatred of systemd and the vocal backlash against it will continue and the backlash is completely justified and proper.
Open source is irrelevant when a significant number of critical projects required to build a functioning graphical desktop are tied to the undesirable project. It's hard to maintain a fork as it is, but 10 forks? 20 forks? At some point the hard dependency on systemd eventually boxes in everyone.
Oh? I have an implicitly cooked egg I'd like to share with you...
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Raised yet again. This is why I love Slashdot. The learning never stops. Neither does the illegal gambling.
Raised again, albeit with a pitiful amount of effort.
I'll see that and raise you a photophone. ;)
This is surely the rise of the machines! THEY'RE IN THE LIGHTS!!! D:
The problem is that the people receiving coverage are the ones whose religious beliefs or lack thereof need protecting. It should be up to the individual paying for THEIR health coverage to decide whether or not contraception options should be included for THEMSELVES. Hobby Lobby should not be allowed to force its religious beliefs onto its employees through taking away legally mandated health coverage OPTIONS.
Ex parte petitions are how the Business Software Alliance (BSA) gets the local sheriff deputies and police to help them conduct jack-booted thug raids on businesses. I agree strongly: the standards for proof should be extremely high.
It might seem awful Reddit of me, but [citation needed]. You can't get away with arguing the regulations protect "the little people" without citing a source that shows that they actually protect said people. Most of the regulations look to me like they're there (A) to erect a huge entry barrier for the taxi industry so the taxicab companies can have an effective monopoly, and (B) to extract extra tax from people who take taxicabs.
Make no mistake, cities fight this so vehemently because it hurts their revenue stream.
I have not read (nor do I ever intend to read) every single peer-reviewed paper on this subject (it's honestly not a very interesting subject). I also have yet to see this paper come up in any of the AGW post discussions on Slashdot. In any case, thanks for bringing it up.
This. I don't understand how it is that in all these discussions, no one ever talks about the problems with the monitoring stations. Something tells me having a grill near a temperature sensor or mounting a temperature sensor above a trash burn barrel or behind a jet aircraft runway just might cause some problems.
But hey, I'm not a climate scientist with a fancy degree, so I suppose my application of fundamental common sense doesn't matter. The science is settled, right? Settled right above tasty seared meat! Anyone want an AGW filet mignon?
You have just done the same individuality-stripping stereotyping that you implicitly denounced.
I'd +1 informative if I could. Thanks for that link!
I appreciate hearing this. I wish more people would listen. And now I'm going to rant about something that it made me think about...
It's really hard to "pay women less than men for the same work" (why wouldn't any good old capitalist company NOT want to take advantage of such if it were actually true?!) when the women are too smart in the first place to fall into the spike-filled pits that are those crummy tech jobs offered by Google et al.
Some people say women aren't interested; I say women see what goes on and have the good sense to avoid the shitty conditions for meager pay that are the modern I.T. jobs, especially since those jobs get to compete with de facto slaves that are crushed under the thumb of the H-1B visas. All this is is an attempt by Google to sucker the ladies in to improve appearances.
Busy box...equals successful hooker? *snork*
"Moist anjone" accurately describes my emotions right now.
Yeah, but we can't let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy, now can we?
I love how you said "We Tumblr now" because this is all I hear when the SJWs turn up and preach: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...
Ah yes, let's semantically slice the fuck out of every last thing that someone else says that we dislike to further our anti-male sexist agenda. That ALWAYS makes us appear intellectually superior and exposes that evil patriarchy shit that we blame everything on because we're too busy trying to feel like we're making society better to make an actual effort to succeed in the workplace.
Then we get the "reading comprehension" bullshit that feminazis love to fall back on. There's no substance in anything you say. GTFO troll.
Have these people never heard of fucking DATA COMPRESSION? Good lord.