If you don't own a farm, you have an infinite debt. Anywhere you o, it will be someone else's food, and they will charge you continuously and indefinitely for the use of it. If you're still in that situation when you're too old to work, you will die in the street when you can no longer bribe others to give you their food. The only possible way to be actually debt-free is to own your own farm, free and clear.
See I just don't understand this. I primarily use Firefox. I've never had Firefox not load a ton of tabs, I don't understand what you mean by "manages better"?
In Server 2016 you have two options: allow the server a full 8 hour window to reboot itself when updates need to be applied, or disable the whole thing via group policy. Nothing in between.
I've been hit by this numerous times. HyperV server running a bunch of VDIs? FUCK IT, I'm Windows Update, I get to take the whole fucking thing down! Exchange for an international corporation that relies on 24/7 email? SCREW YOU, I'm Windows Update, reboot that bitch!
Guess how many people have no choice but to disable them because they don't want their servers randomly rebooting?
Oh really? I know of many games and productivity software that works on XP but not on Windows 10. Even software that ran fine on Windows 7 can have problems on Windows 10. Many programs are poorly written and rely on very specific aspects of the operating system, which changes, even within a particular "release". Do you recall trying to run stuff on Windows XP when Service Pack 2 for XP was released? Yeah, a lot of stuff broke.
That's not my argument. Notice the word **current**. Windows applications written at a specific point in time work on the current version of Windows **at that time**. Of course there's no guarantee they will work on future versions (although many do). Linux applications written at a specific point in time do not necessarily work on every distribution, desktop environment, etc. available at that time. It's about user experience. If you have a current version of Windows you can be 99% certain whatever Windows application you buy will run on it without a ton of hassle.
Eh? For developers, it is even worse. Did you bank everything you had on VB6? Too bad. Silverlight? Too bad..Net 2.0? Too bad. Any of the specific versions of IE? lol, too bad. Oh, and if you use Microsoft development tools, telemetry (that you don't get to see) is built right in.
But none of these decisions impact **users**. If you write a Windows application that depends on Silverlight, you just redist Silverlight as part of your applications installer. You wrote a VB app but the user doesn't have the VB runtime libraries? You package them with your app. These design decisions don't impact or fragment your potential userbase on Windows, whereas on Linux if you write a GNOME application, KDE users won't be able to run it. Do you expect KDE users to install all of GNOME just for your application? Or if you package your application as an RPM and target Fedora, then Ubuntu users won't be able to install it. So you make a.sh installer, but then it breaks for Gentoo users who don't use systemd. On Linux your potential userbase is so fragmented it's not worth developing for if you're in it to make money, unless you have a very niche application.
- Car as OS: All cars have pretty much the same UI, steering wheel, pedals, gear shift, doors, trunk, mirrors, windshield wipers, turn signals, horn, etc. It doesn't matter which make you buy, they're all going to behave the same way. This is not the same between Windows and Linux. The Linux car would have a joystick instead of a steering wheel, 2 brake pedals for each side of the car, doors that detach from the car completely to open them and a radio that only picks up country music stations.
- Car as application: All cars run on the same roads regardless of make. The Linux car would only run on dirt/gravel roads.
Now tell me if people would buy the Linux car over any other make.
It's a double edged sword. Windows is so popular because there is only one current version of Windows and everyone knows it and all Windows applications work on it. If you want to develop for Windows there's no guesswork, and the design decisions you make aren't going to split your potential userbase.
If you want to run a Linux application you have to make sure it'll work on your distro, then hope your distro has a package for it or else shit gets fucked up, then make sure it works with your desktop environment, etc. As a developer you have to make design decisions that will split your userbase. Do you support systemd? What distributions do you target? Do you use GTK? QT? Plasma? GNOME? And which version? All of these will split your potential userbase, and now Canonical wants to add Mir to the mix?
This is why Linux on the Desktop will never reach critical mass. It's about the car interior and we're all busy reinventing hundreds of sets of wheels.
I liked ubuntu. I didn't like unity, but only because it was terrible as opposed to any specific political reason.
Mir on the other hand... Mir is not mainstream, it's not even out yet, so you can't lump the hate for Mir in with the hate for Windows. It's different.
The big problem is fragmentation and duplication of work. We all pretty much want the same thing, a free and open desktop operating system we can use day to day. We have this ancient X windowing system that should have been replaced a decade ago that has been standard on pretty much every Linux desktop ever, and instead of everyone working on a solution together, we have, again, different camps creating different solutions.
The problem is this task is so monumental it's taking years to develop, and on top of that it's fragmenting the developer base which not only causes it to take even longer, but support for any of the solutions to be slower.
Why isn't linux on the desktop? Fragmentation. Mir only adds to that problem.
None of this is defaulted to off, in fact, this is the Basic level, which cannot be turned off. The default is Full, which is, I'm sure, a list that dwarfs this one by orders of magnitude.
No, IoT is what vendors make it. Consumers aren't educated enough to give a shit and therefore exert no pressure on vendors to change.
I don't think you really get the Internet part of Internet of Things. If it's just on your local network, it's not an IoT device, and the reason why you can't have an IoT hub is because not everyone can have a static IPv4 address, and IPv6 isn't coming anytime soon.
IOT is not great. The idea that billions of tiny insecure computers are all connected to the same public internet is absurd. Not to mention, everything is controlled through "the cloud" and service for a piece of hardware you bought could be terminated at any time.
At this point Google search is so entrenched all they would have to do is block all of Australia from accessing it and the internet immediately becomes useless in Australia.
> I only work longer hours because I don't have kids to look after.
You just answered why you make more money than her. She has made the decision to put family first, and to not work as many hours because of that. So what gap do we have to close here?
The gender pay gap is a myth. If it really existed, nobody would hire men. Men work longer, and in much more dangerous jobs, and therefore make more money.
But it does spy on the user and send all of that sellable data back to Microsoft with no way to disable it. Did you ever think that would happen? Just wait for it. Pretty soon the only applications you'll be able to install on Windows will come from the walled garden of the Microsoft Store. MS steals everything from Apple, the good and the bad.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Everyone calls the first amendment "free speech", but it also covers the press (aka, video recording), and peaceful demonstrating.
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If you don't own a farm, you have an infinite debt. Anywhere you o, it will be someone else's food, and they will charge you continuously and indefinitely for the use of it. If you're still in that situation when you're too old to work, you will die in the street when you can no longer bribe others to give you their food. The only possible way to be actually debt-free is to own your own farm, free and clear.
Hosting is Cloud. It's like saying cars were around long before automobiles.
VPS is hosting is cloud. There is no difference. It's a marketing term to synergize the verticals.
See I just don't understand this. I primarily use Firefox. I've never had Firefox not load a ton of tabs, I don't understand what you mean by "manages better"?
In Server 2016 you have two options: allow the server a full 8 hour window to reboot itself when updates need to be applied, or disable the whole thing via group policy. Nothing in between.
I've been hit by this numerous times. HyperV server running a bunch of VDIs? FUCK IT, I'm Windows Update, I get to take the whole fucking thing down! Exchange for an international corporation that relies on 24/7 email? SCREW YOU, I'm Windows Update, reboot that bitch!
Guess how many people have no choice but to disable them because they don't want their servers randomly rebooting?
Oh really? I know of many games and productivity software that works on XP but not on Windows 10. Even software that ran fine on Windows 7 can have problems on Windows 10. Many programs are poorly written and rely on very specific aspects of the operating system, which changes, even within a particular "release". Do you recall trying to run stuff on Windows XP when Service Pack 2 for XP was released? Yeah, a lot of stuff broke.
That's not my argument. Notice the word **current**. Windows applications written at a specific point in time work on the current version of Windows **at that time**. Of course there's no guarantee they will work on future versions (although many do). Linux applications written at a specific point in time do not necessarily work on every distribution, desktop environment, etc. available at that time. It's about user experience. If you have a current version of Windows you can be 99% certain whatever Windows application you buy will run on it without a ton of hassle.
Eh? For developers, it is even worse. Did you bank everything you had on VB6? Too bad. Silverlight? Too bad. .Net 2.0? Too bad. Any of the specific versions of IE? lol, too bad. Oh, and if you use Microsoft development tools, telemetry (that you don't get to see) is built right in.
But none of these decisions impact **users**. If you write a Windows application that depends on Silverlight, you just redist Silverlight as part of your applications installer. You wrote a VB app but the user doesn't have the VB runtime libraries? You package them with your app. These design decisions don't impact or fragment your potential userbase on Windows, whereas on Linux if you write a GNOME application, KDE users won't be able to run it. Do you expect KDE users to install all of GNOME just for your application? Or if you package your application as an RPM and target Fedora, then Ubuntu users won't be able to install it. So you make a .sh installer, but then it breaks for Gentoo users who don't use systemd. On Linux your potential userbase is so fragmented it's not worth developing for if you're in it to make money, unless you have a very niche application.
The car analogy fails a couple ways:
- Car as OS: All cars have pretty much the same UI, steering wheel, pedals, gear shift, doors, trunk, mirrors, windshield wipers, turn signals, horn, etc. It doesn't matter which make you buy, they're all going to behave the same way. This is not the same between Windows and Linux. The Linux car would have a joystick instead of a steering wheel, 2 brake pedals for each side of the car, doors that detach from the car completely to open them and a radio that only picks up country music stations.
- Car as application: All cars run on the same roads regardless of make. The Linux car would only run on dirt/gravel roads.
Now tell me if people would buy the Linux car over any other make.
No, ten years ago it was still fragmentation. It's pretty much always been fragmentation.
It's a double edged sword. Windows is so popular because there is only one current version of Windows and everyone knows it and all Windows applications work on it. If you want to develop for Windows there's no guesswork, and the design decisions you make aren't going to split your potential userbase.
If you want to run a Linux application you have to make sure it'll work on your distro, then hope your distro has a package for it or else shit gets fucked up, then make sure it works with your desktop environment, etc. As a developer you have to make design decisions that will split your userbase. Do you support systemd? What distributions do you target? Do you use GTK? QT? Plasma? GNOME? And which version? All of these will split your potential userbase, and now Canonical wants to add Mir to the mix?
This is why Linux on the Desktop will never reach critical mass. It's about the car interior and we're all busy reinventing hundreds of sets of wheels.
I liked ubuntu. I didn't like unity, but only because it was terrible as opposed to any specific political reason.
Mir on the other hand... Mir is not mainstream, it's not even out yet, so you can't lump the hate for Mir in with the hate for Windows. It's different.
The big problem is fragmentation and duplication of work. We all pretty much want the same thing, a free and open desktop operating system we can use day to day. We have this ancient X windowing system that should have been replaced a decade ago that has been standard on pretty much every Linux desktop ever, and instead of everyone working on a solution together, we have, again, different camps creating different solutions.
The problem is this task is so monumental it's taking years to develop, and on top of that it's fragmenting the developer base which not only causes it to take even longer, but support for any of the solutions to be slower.
Why isn't linux on the desktop? Fragmentation. Mir only adds to that problem.
... Drop Mir for Wayland, and quit fragmenting shit.
None of this is defaulted to off, in fact, this is the Basic level, which cannot be turned off. The default is Full, which is, I'm sure, a list that dwarfs this one by orders of magnitude.
Any data is diagnostic if you say it will help you fix issues.
But yes, full commands of apps that request elevation, personally identifiable IDs like username, xbox IDs, etc. The list is bloody massive.
No, IoT is what vendors make it. Consumers aren't educated enough to give a shit and therefore exert no pressure on vendors to change.
I don't think you really get the Internet part of Internet of Things. If it's just on your local network, it's not an IoT device, and the reason why you can't have an IoT hub is because not everyone can have a static IPv4 address, and IPv6 isn't coming anytime soon.
If it's not connected to the internet, then it's not an Internet of Things device.
IOT is not great. The idea that billions of tiny insecure computers are all connected to the same public internet is absurd. Not to mention, everything is controlled through "the cloud" and service for a piece of hardware you bought could be terminated at any time.
At this point Google search is so entrenched all they would have to do is block all of Australia from accessing it and the internet immediately becomes useless in Australia.
We use reddit specifically because it isn't a "social network". Don't try to turn it into one!
I see the words, I can read them, but the meaning just isn't coming.
> I only work longer hours because I don't have kids to look after.
You just answered why you make more money than her. She has made the decision to put family first, and to not work as many hours because of that. So what gap do we have to close here?
The gender pay gap is a myth. If it really existed, nobody would hire men. Men work longer, and in much more dangerous jobs, and therefore make more money.
No wonder we have so many bugs in software...
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I don't think you understand the difference between Single Payer, and Single Provider.
But it does spy on the user and send all of that sellable data back to Microsoft with no way to disable it. Did you ever think that would happen? Just wait for it. Pretty soon the only applications you'll be able to install on Windows will come from the walled garden of the Microsoft Store. MS steals everything from Apple, the good and the bad.
Charging someone $300 to repair something worth $400 new is not a sound business model.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Everyone calls the first amendment "free speech", but it also covers the press (aka, video recording), and peaceful demonstrating.