TFS puts it like Mac took something away from Linux. However, market share for linux remained at roughtly one fifth, even growing by about 1%. So more people had linux, not less. The big loser here is windows, it had 54.5% in 2015, and now it has 52.2%, and next year might be the first year of UNIX on the developer's desktop, with less than 50% windows users.
Tell me an IDE that isn't. IDEs are memory hogs, take ages to start up, have huge amounts of bugs, and generally don't really improve development process.
The answer is simple: the more machines replace human workers, the more socialism we need. Replacing humans with machines is nothing bad, its part of our development process. Yes, many people say that things like techonolgical progress, science, etc were all just created because not all humans of the society had to produce food, and even more were unlocked in the process of technological development. That's all true. Most of them also say that laid off humans will find new jobs in new fields, in completely new industries.
This might have been true in the past, and to some extent is true in the present as well. Right now, most of the humans on this planet live in pre-industrial or poorly industrialized areas. But it will change over the next fifty years: industrialisation of vast parts of this planet will unleash a giant amount of workpower, rendering almost all higher paying jobs worthless, because the demand won't scale with the workforce that becomes free. Or, in the context of the outlined theory above, we won't be able to find ways for the jobless people to enhance the lives of the still working, and rich people.
You only have to construct an airplane once. Whether you build ten of it, or twenty, or two hundred, is mosly a question of material, resources, and fairly low paying workpower. Yes, there still will be jobs, but they will become less and less.
The question is: what should we do with the people who have no job? Should we let them starve in the streets? Should we deny them the goods our industry is producing? I do not think that full socialism is a good model right now, but we do have to apply it gradually, and on a world wide basis, depending on our degree of industrialisation. Otherwise there will be countries which will become oligarchies, with the people living from the charity of the few rich.
Flash was a technology developed by a single company and parts of it were just cheap copies of the back then still limited html4/js environment, while other parts were reasonable extensions. The extensions added by flash were added over time into html5 and related APIs.
Applets were a technology developed in the flash age, built by a company that mostly targeted the enterprise market. It only needs to work, not work well. Having a JVM with platform independent bytecode is a great idea, but it has failed for several reasons. Research on these matters is much more advanced, and the market knows much better what it wants.
And stop linking to the news article only, without linking to the scientific paper. Just for those who care, here is the link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.0372...
I think that version is safe. My guess at the core of the whole story is that transmission wanted to provide binaries for mac, and they asked someone external to the project to do it, because neither of them had a mac nor wanted to afford $100 in order to build software for free, and that person was malicious and included the ransomware.
I guess that that made enough money to compensate for the Mac purchase and the 100$ developer fee. One can even say that in this case, apple made money with malware.
In fact, in this case probably it was the contrary. I guess the developer was not part of the developer team for transmission, but external. If it were easy to package software for macs without having to pay lots of fees, the dev team could have done it themselves. Apple really should give free dev licenses to free software developers, to help fight abuse. Github does something like that too.
If you visit the URL http://slashdot.org/?page=1 you will quickly notice that breaking the 100 isn't rare at all. More than a half of the stories broke the 100 there.
I don't say there is no decline but what you say is wrong.
I do use Linux since 6 years, its my primary OS since 5 years, and I only have Linux since 4 years. I am writing software with C++ but I don't do driver development, I'm no guru:). Perhaps it was just luck but I really never ran into bigger issues. Yes, one of my laptops only had a closed source driver where the manufacturer wanted to do everything themselves, from the kernel module to the userland tools, with the normal userland tools not working with that card (like iwscan), but the card working with NetworkManager.
But all more recent I buy somehow work without major issues. I regard not being able to set the screen brightness (I have that too! just that the problem is not the hardware keys, its the actual brightness setting being a no-op) not as one.
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Yes, why should you download some random OS from a spyware vendor? Not downloading but using the preinstalled one doesn't make matters better.
TFS puts it like Mac took something away from Linux. However, market share for linux remained at roughtly one fifth, even growing by about 1%. So more people had linux, not less. The big loser here is windows, it had 54.5% in 2015, and now it has 52.2%, and next year might be the first year of UNIX on the developer's desktop, with less than 50% windows users.
So in total, its a very good development.
Tell me an IDE that isn't. IDEs are memory hogs, take ages to start up, have huge amounts of bugs, and generally don't really improve development process.
The answer is simple: the more machines replace human workers, the more socialism we need. Replacing humans with machines is nothing bad, its part of our development process. Yes, many people say that things like techonolgical progress, science, etc were all just created because not all humans of the society had to produce food, and even more were unlocked in the process of technological development. That's all true. Most of them also say that laid off humans will find new jobs in new fields, in completely new industries.
This might have been true in the past, and to some extent is true in the present as well. Right now, most of the humans on this planet live in pre-industrial or poorly industrialized areas. But it will change over the next fifty years: industrialisation of vast parts of this planet will unleash a giant amount of workpower, rendering almost all higher paying jobs worthless, because the demand won't scale with the workforce that becomes free. Or, in the context of the outlined theory above, we won't be able to find ways for the jobless people to enhance the lives of the still working, and rich people.
You only have to construct an airplane once. Whether you build ten of it, or twenty, or two hundred, is mosly a question of material, resources, and fairly low paying workpower. Yes, there still will be jobs, but they will become less and less.
The question is: what should we do with the people who have no job? Should we let them starve in the streets? Should we deny them the goods our industry is producing? I do not think that full socialism is a good model right now, but we do have to apply it gradually, and on a world wide basis, depending on our degree of industrialisation. Otherwise there will be countries which will become oligarchies, with the people living from the charity of the few rich.
This has been known already for some time: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
Flash was a technology developed by a single company and parts of it were just cheap copies of the back then still limited html4/js environment, while other parts were reasonable extensions. The extensions added by flash were added over time into html5 and related APIs.
Applets were a technology developed in the flash age, built by a company that mostly targeted the enterprise market. It only needs to work, not work well. Having a JVM with platform independent bytecode is a great idea, but it has failed for several reasons. Research on these matters is much more advanced, and the market knows much better what it wants.
are you a sockpuppet?
I'm looking forward to clippycoin, the coin that is bound to the win32 API and windows kernel, you can only pay with it if you have microsoft windows.
And stop linking to the news article only, without linking to the scientific paper. Just for those who care, here is the link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.0372...
The NEWS here is that its still available for download, on march 12 2016.
I just say that they currently don't have it. Perhaps they will, in the future. Perhaps they won't.
https://xkcd.com/723/
It supports the ctrl+v/ctrl+c buffer, but there is no support for a middle click paste buffer that's refreshed when selecting text.
Welcome to the new apps age, where options are too complicated for the stupid sheeple.
Multi windows systems? Too complicated, we need gnome 3!
Email? Too complicated, we need Whatsapp!
IRC? Too complicated, we need Slack!
Middle mouse equals paste for wayland? Too complicated, we don't need a paste buffer!
1. They claim that wire is free (as in beer).
2. They claim that wire protects your data and privacy.
3. They claim that wire runs no ads.
4. They run a profit oriented company, not an open source foundation, and I have heard nothing about their business model
Its easy to confirm claims 1, 3 and 4. Its very hard to confirm claim 2. What do they want to make money with?
Am I supposed to believe they are altruist?
He is trying to get attention by being honest? That's brand new it seems.
Yes sometimes the story moderation system is weird.
He had a non-nuclear submission too: http://slashdot.org/submission...
It got moderated violet. So I guess mdsolar thinks seems people want anti nuclear submissions?
I think that version is safe. My guess at the core of the whole story is that transmission wanted to provide binaries for mac, and they asked someone external to the project to do it, because neither of them had a mac nor wanted to afford $100 in order to build software for free, and that person was malicious and included the ransomware.
I guess that that made enough money to compensate for the Mac purchase and the 100$ developer fee. One can even say that in this case, apple made money with malware.
Sadly we live in the age of walled gardens, and not of open protocols. I really don't wonder that people mix this.
In fact, in this case probably it was the contrary. I guess the developer was not part of the developer team for transmission, but external. If it were easy to package software for macs without having to pay lots of fees, the dev team could have done it themselves. Apple really should give free dev licenses to free software developers, to help fight abuse. Github does something like that too.
I just hope its not the exact same scuba diver...
These days it's rare to break 100.
If you visit the URL http://slashdot.org/?page=1 you will quickly notice that breaking the 100 isn't rare at all. More than a half of the stories broke the 100 there.
I don't say there is no decline but what you say is wrong.
which themselves introduce substantial security holes.
Xorg is a single huge security hole, one that had to run as root until recently.
Wayland is a step in the right direction. Perhaps in 20 years its successor will emerge and that one is perfect.
I do use Linux since 6 years, its my primary OS since 5 years, and I only have Linux since 4 years. I am writing software with C++ but I don't do driver development, I'm no guru :). Perhaps it was just luck but I really never ran into bigger issues. Yes, one of my laptops only had a closed source driver where the manufacturer wanted to do everything themselves, from the kernel module to the userland tools, with the normal userland tools not working with that card (like iwscan), but the card working with NetworkManager.
But all more recent I buy somehow work without major issues. I regard not being able to set the screen brightness (I have that too! just that the problem is not the hardware keys, its the actual brightness setting being a no-op) not as one.