What everyone hates is excessive/intrusive advertising, and on the Web also the specific problems of malware/spyware served by ad networks. Those guys can go take a running jump, but let's all try to remember that they represent only a small minority of "advertisers", and they always have (or the Web would have become unusable long ago).
Pretty much all advertising is intrusive and/or spyware. Take a look at how many ad networks track you "to better serve you ads you might be interested in." How many ads do you see that aren't served from an ad network?
The very first links are to the official videolan site.
Further down the page, you have softonic.com, filehippo.com, downloadastro.com, win-install.com, 01net.com, safe-setup.com (if you believe that, well...), keweek.com, etc. Download at your own risk.
Now, as for the whole topic of click fraud, it's been known for years that between 25% and 50% of all clicks are fraudulent ("you can make money surfing the net" pay-to-click scams, bots, competitors, etc). Knowledgeable advertisers have already baked in that number into their budgets.
Well. when you can't compete in the fast-expanding fields of tablets and smartphones, you've got to find ways to milk your "milch cows" even more. Even when over the long term it's bad for the cow.
KDE isn't perfect, but its heart is in the right place at least...
. . . Legoland? I have tried every major revision of KDE since the olden times, and it has this toy-like appearance that they just can't shake. Busy and colorful.
You know you can change that... even make it look like the old mac if you're into nostalgia.
It is now official. The BBC has confirmed: Uber is dying!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered ridesharing community when IDC confirmed that Uber market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ride-sharing services. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Uber has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Uber is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent "can you get a ride without being raped" test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Uber's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Uber faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Uber because Uber is dying. Things are looking very bad for Uber. As many of us are already aware, Uber continues to lose market share. Law suits flow like a river of blood.
Uber is the most endangered of all the ride-shares, having lost 93% of its legal battles with regulators. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Uber drivers Ikant Drive and Noah Li Cense only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Uber is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Uber has steadily declined in market share. Uber is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Uber is to survive at all it will be among dilettante black car users. Uber continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Uber is dead.
At least one company also told the people being laid off that they wouldn't get their severance pay and back vacation pay if they didn't sign the release.
With smart phones all over the place able to surreptitiously record such illegal threats, hopefully these tactics will become less as time goes on (esp. since any agreement signed under such circumstances is nullable by the employee, though it still binds the company).
So... basically "Don't worry - the least-liked Linux shell will continue to have all the things you hate and that drove you away from Ubuntu ages ago."
So will next year be the year of the desktop on Linux?
The obligatory answer is no.
But that's okay, you know,
Because the desktop, like BSD
Is dying, so you see,
It's Canonical's usual "all talk, no show".
Burma Shave
To "C" or not to "C", that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of java coders,
Or to take arms against a sea of perl,
And by opposing end them? To die(): To sleep()
No more; and by die() to say we exit(),
The heart-ache of the thousand malloc()s
That c code is heir to, ’tis a consummation (of ram)
Devoutly to be wish’d to die() when we forget to free(),
To sleep(): perchance to dream(): ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep() of die() what random() instructions may come
When we have shuffled off other's poor performance,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes durability of so long C;
Burma Shave
For who would bear the whips and scorns of n00bs,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s memory managed tools,
In the USA, there are three particularly popular methods of successful suicide: firearms, suffocation/hanging (likely to be largely hanging, but will also include carbon monoxide poisoning) and poisoning (commonly by drugs). Naturally, in the US, firearms are much easier to come by than other countries, hence their relative popularity in the US as a suicide method.
When it comes to successful suicide in the US, men account for 78% of all suicides. The popularity of the methods used also varies a little between the sexes. Whist for men firearms are by far the most popular, followed by suffocation/hanging and poisoning, women have poisoning as their most popular method, followed by firearms then suffocation/hanging. Given firearms are the most reliable method, and drug poisoning one of the least successful, that may account for some of the difference in actual suicide rates between the sexes. It is also interesting to note that women have 45% more non-fatal self-harm incidences than men.
Part of the problem with that strategy is you're not in the same room as the competition, so you can't compete directly with them and knock them out of the ring, so to speak. And if you "play up" your skills too much, you sound like some old fart who's living in the past and thinks too much of themselves.
Also, there's the whole "up or out" culture that leaves many people by the wayside because they like what they're doing, they're good at it, and they know that they'd suck at management (or more likely, since they're competent, they're afraid that they would always be at loggerheads with the rest of management instead of being a "team player", which is a quick way to get your pink slip).
And you didn't address the question of catastrophic health events. 100 years ago this wasn't as much of a problem - people who made it beyond 50 were OLD! Now, someone who dies at 65 is "OMG they were so young!" So there's more time for a person to have a health problem that seriously affects their employability, without it directly affecting their survivability. How are you going to retrain someone for work after a stroke that's left them paralyzed on one side, when they need help learning how to dress themselves, and can't get out of bed and into their wheelchair on their own so they can get to the bathroom? When a shower or bath requires assistance? When they no longer see stuff on the side that was affected?
There are plenty of health problems that can crop up that have less effect, but still pretty much make you unemployable because it would simply take too long to retrain you. Serious retinal problems is one of them. Side effects of medications that make it impossible to stay awake for the full 8-hour work day is another. "Rebranding" yourself isn't going to work.
Actually, natural selection DOES explain it. Gays and lesbians that don't reproduce can contribute to the support of their near relatives, as has been going on for generations in some parts of the world. They can also adopt, again contributing to the support of others. And being gay has been found to run in families irrespective of genes - twins, for example, where only one is hetero. So the presence of gays and lesbians in the gene pool reduces the demand on natural resources and provides a fall-back resource for the rest of the clan.
As for transsexuality, why not do some research on your own, with an open mind? It's a fascinating topic.
Now, what I was getting at when I said "it serves no purpose", was that there is no biological advantage, and several disadvantages, to bestiality. As one example, some diseases, such as certain types of genital warts, are transmissible between dogs and humans. Try explaining THAT to your MD.
I'm blowing mod points on this page for the first time ever to reply to you because you're projecting layperson search behavior onto programmers with no apparent justification.
To many "coders" are just "google cut-n-paste" already.
f a code class search engine with good dependency mapping anddocumentation existed
If "good documentation" existed, you could already find the code via google. One of the big problems of software is that documentation, like maintenance, is not seen as much "fun" as developing the new shiny.
And now, with apologies to MasterCard, "for the rest, there's Stack Overflow."
Stern, currently leading the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto, disagrees with the reclassification of Pluto on the basis that - like Pluto - Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not cleared their orbital neighbourhoods either. Earth co-orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and Jupiter has 100,000 Trojan asteroids in its orbital path. "If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there", he now says.
So it's not just "because you continue to declare it so without actually giving much arguments that way doesn't make it so." You could have easily found this if you had first done a rudimentary search. It's the first result for "planet clearing the neighborhood."
I saw your question in the firehose. The reason they only devote a chapter to ipv6 is because you still need to know all that other stuff. After all, you need to know what they're transiting from, right? It's probably one of those cases of "you can't get there from here."
Definitely the better option. In your mid-thirties you're coming up on your "best before" date for a lot of IT jobs, if only because employers will assume you're not up-to-date on the latest and greatest (and because they'd rather pay someone who is younger and less likely to object to work conditions that can be pretty bad).
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
Progress to what end? Remember that Germany had democracy before Hitler rose to power, and secular societies have turned religious on well more than one occasion.
I guess we'll find out, one way or another. As long as another Nehemiah Scudder doesn't pop up.
None of that, actually. It's mainly your writing style (e.g. shorter rather than longer sentences) in addition to a few of your mannerisms. I don't have a whole lot of time to go into detail.
My real writing style is VERY long sentences. However, given the 15-second attention span of the Internet. I adapt.
When I edit my first drafts, I break up sentences, adjust long phrasing, etc., all to make it more readable for others. It's the opposite of political speech - "why take 10 words to (not) say something when 1,000 will do."
At any rate I'm not endorsing bestiality, just that I haven't found a logical reason to condemn it.
If we were just "logical beings", there would be no bestiality, since logically it serves no purpose. Then again, ultimately life serves no purpose - it'll all be gone in the big collapse 100 billion years from now or whenever.
But we're not just "logical beings", and we superimpose our instinctive sense of what's right and wrong on an uncaring universe, because WE care. Given our dominant position vis-a-vis other animals, it's incumbent on us, to the extent it's possible, treat them the same way that we would wish to be treated if someone was in a position of dominance towards us, which is why we have made it illegal for teachers, principals, etc. to have sex with "consenting" minors - the position of authority undermines any concept of free consent. And it's gross as all heck.
You shouldn't make decisions based on logic alone. Life is much more than that, and sticking solely to logic is very much a lonely place to be in - and unfortunately most men don't get that, because men aren't supposed to be "emotional".
The incremental cost of each "freeloader" is zero. The risk of having only "One True Way" to do something is huge.
He uses OpenSSL as an example, and that companies should be devoting funds to this to help make it "perfect" to prevent the next Heartbleed attack. This ignores that there are already alternatives to OpenSSL. So, who should get the funding? OpenSSL or one of the alternatives?
This is like governments trying to pick economic "winners" and giving them all sorts of moola. Doesn't work.
The real problem in many cases is that there are too many options, too many different libraries, and too much code that does pretty much the same thing in slightly different ways. How can you standardize when there are so many different "standards" to choose from?
This is actually a good thing, because it avoids a monoculture.
what are you supposed to do if nobody has an actual device of that platform? For example, since nobody owns a Windows Phone device, how are you supposed to develop for Windows Phone?
If nobody owns a Windows Phone device, why develop for it? Seriously, though, here's how.
Slashdot Mirror
What everyone hates is excessive/intrusive advertising, and on the Web also the specific problems of malware/spyware served by ad networks. Those guys can go take a running jump, but let's all try to remember that they represent only a small minority of "advertisers", and they always have (or the Web would have become unusable long ago).
Pretty much all advertising is intrusive and/or spyware. Take a look at how many ad networks track you "to better serve you ads you might be interested in." How many ads do you see that aren't served from an ad network?
But the example is flawed.
The very first links are to the official videolan site.
Further down the page, you have softonic.com, filehippo.com, downloadastro.com, win-install.com, 01net.com, safe-setup.com (if you believe that, well ...), keweek.com, etc. Download at your own risk.
Now, as for the whole topic of click fraud, it's been known for years that between 25% and 50% of all clicks are fraudulent ("you can make money surfing the net" pay-to-click scams, bots, competitors, etc). Knowledgeable advertisers have already baked in that number into their budgets.
Well. when you can't compete in the fast-expanding fields of tablets and smartphones, you've got to find ways to milk your "milch cows" even more. Even when over the long term it's bad for the cow.
Maybe future Winblows will include a credit card swiper.
Is that "swipe" as in "steal"? There ae SO many with prior art on stealing credit cards under Windows.
KDE isn't perfect, but its heart is in the right place at least...
. . . Legoland? I have tried every major revision of KDE since the olden times, and it has this toy-like appearance that they just can't shake. Busy and colorful.
You know you can change that ... even make it look like the old mac if you're into nostalgia.
It is now official. The BBC has confirmed: Uber is dying!
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered ridesharing community when IDC confirmed that Uber market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ride-sharing services. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Uber has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Uber is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent "can you get a ride without being raped" test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Uber's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Uber faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Uber because Uber is dying. Things are looking very bad for Uber. As many of us are already aware, Uber continues to lose market share. Law suits flow like a river of blood.
Uber is the most endangered of all the ride-shares, having lost 93% of its legal battles with regulators. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Uber drivers Ikant Drive and Noah Li Cense only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Uber is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Uber has steadily declined in market share. Uber is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Uber is to survive at all it will be among dilettante black car users. Uber continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Uber is dead.
At least one company also told the people being laid off that they wouldn't get their severance pay and back vacation pay if they didn't sign the release.
With smart phones all over the place able to surreptitiously record such illegal threats, hopefully these tactics will become less as time goes on (esp. since any agreement signed under such circumstances is nullable by the employee, though it still binds the company).
So... basically "Don't worry - the least-liked Linux shell will continue to have all the things you hate and that drove you away from Ubuntu ages ago."
At least give them points for being consistent.
So will next year be the year of the desktop on Linux?
The obligatory answer is no.
But that's okay, you know,
Because the desktop, like BSD
Is dying, so you see,
It's Canonical's usual "all talk, no show".
Burma Shave
To "C" or not to "C", that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of java coders,
Or to take arms against a sea of perl,
And by opposing end them? To die(): To sleep()
No more; and by die() to say we exit(),
The heart-ache of the thousand malloc()s
That c code is heir to, ’tis a consummation (of ram)
Devoutly to be wish’d to die() when we forget to free(),
To sleep(): perchance to dream(): ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep() of die() what random() instructions may come
When we have shuffled off other's poor performance,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes durability of so long C;
Burma Shave
For who would bear the whips and scorns of n00bs,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s memory managed tools,
China != the whole world.
There's actually some truth in that:
In the USA, there are three particularly popular methods of successful suicide: firearms, suffocation/hanging (likely to be largely hanging, but will also include carbon monoxide poisoning) and poisoning (commonly by drugs). Naturally, in the US, firearms are much easier to come by than other countries, hence their relative popularity in the US as a suicide method.
When it comes to successful suicide in the US, men account for 78% of all suicides. The popularity of the methods used also varies a little between the sexes. Whist for men firearms are by far the most popular, followed by suffocation/hanging and poisoning, women have poisoning as their most popular method, followed by firearms then suffocation/hanging. Given firearms are the most reliable method, and drug poisoning one of the least successful, that may account for some of the difference in actual suicide rates between the sexes. It is also interesting to note that women have 45% more non-fatal self-harm incidences than men.
Part of the problem with that strategy is you're not in the same room as the competition, so you can't compete directly with them and knock them out of the ring, so to speak. And if you "play up" your skills too much, you sound like some old fart who's living in the past and thinks too much of themselves.
Also, there's the whole "up or out" culture that leaves many people by the wayside because they like what they're doing, they're good at it, and they know that they'd suck at management (or more likely, since they're competent, they're afraid that they would always be at loggerheads with the rest of management instead of being a "team player", which is a quick way to get your pink slip).
And you didn't address the question of catastrophic health events. 100 years ago this wasn't as much of a problem - people who made it beyond 50 were OLD! Now, someone who dies at 65 is "OMG they were so young!" So there's more time for a person to have a health problem that seriously affects their employability, without it directly affecting their survivability. How are you going to retrain someone for work after a stroke that's left them paralyzed on one side, when they need help learning how to dress themselves, and can't get out of bed and into their wheelchair on their own so they can get to the bathroom? When a shower or bath requires assistance? When they no longer see stuff on the side that was affected?
There are plenty of health problems that can crop up that have less effect, but still pretty much make you unemployable because it would simply take too long to retrain you. Serious retinal problems is one of them. Side effects of medications that make it impossible to stay awake for the full 8-hour work day is another. "Rebranding" yourself isn't going to work.
Actually, natural selection DOES explain it. Gays and lesbians that don't reproduce can contribute to the support of their near relatives, as has been going on for generations in some parts of the world. They can also adopt, again contributing to the support of others. And being gay has been found to run in families irrespective of genes - twins, for example, where only one is hetero. So the presence of gays and lesbians in the gene pool reduces the demand on natural resources and provides a fall-back resource for the rest of the clan.
As for transsexuality, why not do some research on your own, with an open mind? It's a fascinating topic.
Now, what I was getting at when I said "it serves no purpose", was that there is no biological advantage, and several disadvantages, to bestiality. As one example, some diseases, such as certain types of genital warts, are transmissible between dogs and humans. Try explaining THAT to your MD.
I'm blowing mod points on this page for the first time ever to reply to you because you're projecting layperson search behavior onto programmers with no apparent justification.
To many "coders" are just "google cut-n-paste" already.
f a code class search engine with good dependency mapping anddocumentation existed
If "good documentation" existed, you could already find the code via google. One of the big problems of software is that documentation, like maintenance, is not seen as much "fun" as developing the new shiny.
And now, with apologies to MasterCard, "for the rest, there's Stack Overflow."
Stern, currently leading the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto, disagrees with the reclassification of Pluto on the basis that - like Pluto - Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not cleared their orbital neighbourhoods either. Earth co-orbits with 10,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), and Jupiter has 100,000 Trojan asteroids in its orbital path. "If Neptune had cleared its zone, Pluto wouldn't be there", he now says.
So it's not just "because you continue to declare it so without actually giving much arguments that way doesn't make it so." You could have easily found this if you had first done a rudimentary search. It's the first result for "planet clearing the neighborhood."
I saw your question in the firehose. The reason they only devote a chapter to ipv6 is because you still need to know all that other stuff. After all, you need to know what they're transiting from, right? It's probably one of those cases of "you can't get there from here."
Definitely the better option. In your mid-thirties you're coming up on your "best before" date for a lot of IT jobs, if only because employers will assume you're not up-to-date on the latest and greatest (and because they'd rather pay someone who is younger and less likely to object to work conditions that can be pretty bad).
It's either "up or out" time.
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
Progress to what end? Remember that Germany had democracy before Hitler rose to power, and secular societies have turned religious on well more than one occasion.
I guess we'll find out, one way or another. As long as another Nehemiah Scudder doesn't pop up.
None of that, actually. It's mainly your writing style (e.g. shorter rather than longer sentences) in addition to a few of your mannerisms. I don't have a whole lot of time to go into detail.
My real writing style is VERY long sentences. However, given the 15-second attention span of the Internet. I adapt.
When I edit my first drafts, I break up sentences, adjust long phrasing, etc., all to make it more readable for others. It's the opposite of political speech - "why take 10 words to (not) say something when 1,000 will do."
At any rate I'm not endorsing bestiality, just that I haven't found a logical reason to condemn it.
If we were just "logical beings", there would be no bestiality, since logically it serves no purpose. Then again, ultimately life serves no purpose - it'll all be gone in the big collapse 100 billion years from now or whenever.
But we're not just "logical beings", and we superimpose our instinctive sense of what's right and wrong on an uncaring universe, because WE care. Given our dominant position vis-a-vis other animals, it's incumbent on us, to the extent it's possible, treat them the same way that we would wish to be treated if someone was in a position of dominance towards us, which is why we have made it illegal for teachers, principals, etc. to have sex with "consenting" minors - the position of authority undermines any concept of free consent. And it's gross as all heck.
You shouldn't make decisions based on logic alone. Life is much more than that, and sticking solely to logic is very much a lonely place to be in - and unfortunately most men don't get that, because men aren't supposed to be "emotional".
The problem with that is that you end up with everyone taking the #1 solution. Monocultures have a way of breaking badly.
He uses OpenSSL as an example, and that companies should be devoting funds to this to help make it "perfect" to prevent the next Heartbleed attack. This ignores that there are already alternatives to OpenSSL. So, who should get the funding? OpenSSL or one of the alternatives?
This is like governments trying to pick economic "winners" and giving them all sorts of moola. Doesn't work.
The real problem in many cases is that there are too many options, too many different libraries, and too much code that does pretty much the same thing in slightly different ways. How can you standardize when there are so many different "standards" to choose from?
This is actually a good thing, because it avoids a monoculture.
what are you supposed to do if nobody has an actual device of that platform? For example, since nobody owns a Windows Phone device, how are you supposed to develop for Windows Phone?
If nobody owns a Windows Phone device, why develop for it? Seriously, though, here's how.
Van Gogo, Rembrandt, and their contemporaries have been dead for quite a while, and copyright was much more limited (or non-existent) then.
Here's another limitation of fair use - you can't resell anything covered by copyright that you've imported from elsewhere..
here you go
The court in this case held that it was against the law to strip the individual pictures from a book and, in effect, create derivative works.