Something tells me that things you do on Linux are the same kind of worthless tinkering that a VMWare jockey would do on Windows. Please confine your software development effort to the platform that deserves it.
I worked on BIOS development. The "hardware" (but mostly BIOS that configures it) DOES suck on those boxes, and it would not suck if people developing it, made it to a standard as opposed to "Windows does not crash -- ship it!".
While buying a laptop costs more than a dime, replacing them with similar or cheaper models that work under Linux, costs nothing. Last time I checked, every computer hardware store accepts returns.
That's easy -- just make sports watching unpopular.
It's not like there is anything genuinely interesting about a bunch of overpaid meatheads running around somewhat confined place hitting some kind of ball with their limbs or primitive implements.
Yes, I am serious. If you are buying a laptop and choose some Windows-only abomination because it's $15 cheaper or comes with free Bonzi Buddy, you have no business complaining about Linux not suspending on its broken ACPI with ndiswrapper and fglrx, that you "need" to run anything on it.
While current Ubuntu default install (with Unity and without complete GNOME) is not my first preference for computing environment, ability to run on laptop hardware does not exactly differ at any appreciable extent between XFCE and anything else. Ubuntu is actually ahead of everything else as far as laptop-specific configuration is concerned.
That is, if it runs on hardware that works on Linux in the first place -- a combination of unsupported wireless card and some crazy fglrx-only ATI/AMD shit will have trouble under anything.
It may disagree, but it's still wrong. A large part of Linux design amounts to implementing things right that VMs got horribly, horribly wrong. You can just as well port MSI installer and Windows Registry to Linux as you are at it (we have already seen autorun,.net and other abominations of the same level).
So you are running crippled "Linux under Windows" instead of figuring out (or, dares anyone to think, helping to improve) how to make power management work on your shitbox laptop, so it would be pointless to have Windows in the first place.
This is precisely why users are not supposed to use their wireless devices at work without IT creating and approving a secure configuration for it.
MAC address whitelist is absolutely worthless against anything other than your neighbor's torrent-leeching kids. No currently available hardware-implemented wireless encryption is up to any reasonable safety standard, either. There are good solutions for dealing with potentially insecure devices on the network, insecure protocols, and even with secure access over insecure channels, but they involve some serious system administration work -- firewalls/routers and authentication servers' configuration, installation of VPN endpoints, distribution of keys to the users, writing policy documents, etc. More often than not I have seen those being done poorly by IT itself, but a user who thinks that of all things, MAC address whitelist is an adequate security measure, is definitely worse than even a very bad professional network admin.
The situation now in so-called developed countries is approximately this:
1% contributes in any meaningful way, 90% does what a machine would do better but a human has to because otherwise he will have no money and no means for survival, 9% actively tries to steal from everyone else, 1% (out of the aforementioned 9%) succeeds and controls at least 50% of everything that people need to be productive, 8% (out of the same 9%) fails but still shits everything up.
Letting 90% just sit on their asses and do nothing would be a great improvement.
To make any kind of meaningful experiment, you have to prevent interaction with the outside world -- otherwise all you will see is people exploiting the differences. This is also a reason why plenty of laws that would make sense, are not implemented on US States' level -- because then hordes of people will find a way to abuse the difference between that state and its neighbors. What also means that "states' rights" are a ridiculous concept, and Americans would do better by focusing on improving things on Federal level, even if it means taking over the "states' rights" turning States into what they really are -- provinces.
How can the settlement with your company affect anything that a third party (PTO) is supposed to do as a part of its primary responsibilities? And how could it affect the fact that anyone (including you as you personally are not the company they "settled" with) can ask PTO to invalidate the patent again?
If one good thing will come out of the current (disgusting and overblown) pedophile scare, it will be willingness to discriminate against people whose mental deficiencies pose serious threat to the rest of society.
If rabid conservative had their way tomorrow and eliminated Federal college loan & grant programs, what do you think would really be the long-term outcome?
Universities will get rid of teaching and research, and will reduce themselves to operating their sports teams.
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Something tells me that things you do on Linux are the same kind of worthless tinkering that a VMWare jockey would do on Windows. Please confine your software development effort to the platform that deserves it.
I worked on BIOS development. The "hardware" (but mostly BIOS that configures it) DOES suck on those boxes, and it would not suck if people developing it, made it to a standard as opposed to "Windows does not crash -- ship it!".
While buying a laptop costs more than a dime, replacing them with similar or cheaper models that work under Linux, costs nothing. Last time I checked, every computer hardware store accepts returns.
That's easy -- just make sports watching unpopular.
It's not like there is anything genuinely interesting about a bunch of overpaid meatheads running around somewhat confined place hitting some kind of ball with their limbs or primitive implements.
Yes, I am serious. If you are buying a laptop and choose some Windows-only abomination because it's $15 cheaper or comes with free Bonzi Buddy, you have no business complaining about Linux not suspending on its broken ACPI with ndiswrapper and fglrx, that you "need" to run anything on it.
While current Ubuntu default install (with Unity and without complete GNOME) is not my first preference for computing environment, ability to run on laptop hardware does not exactly differ at any appreciable extent between XFCE and anything else. Ubuntu is actually ahead of everything else as far as laptop-specific configuration is concerned.
That is, if it runs on hardware that works on Linux in the first place -- a combination of unsupported wireless card and some crazy fglrx-only ATI/AMD shit will have trouble under anything.
When you "spend your time with your family" you don't use Windows, either.
Then the solution is to get a better laptop. They are dime a dozen now.
It may disagree, but it's still wrong. A large part of Linux design amounts to implementing things right that VMs got horribly, horribly wrong. You can just as well port MSI installer and Windows Registry to Linux as you are at it (we have already seen autorun, .net and other abominations of the same level).
So you are running crippled "Linux under Windows" instead of figuring out (or, dares anyone to think, helping to improve) how to make power management work on your shitbox laptop, so it would be pointless to have Windows in the first place.
Very helpful, indeed.
Out. Twice.
Linux does not belong in VM.
A person who is only allowed to work on his lord/employer's land would qualify as a villein even if his intentions are pure.
This is precisely why users are not supposed to use their wireless devices at work without IT creating and approving a secure configuration for it.
MAC address whitelist is absolutely worthless against anything other than your neighbor's torrent-leeching kids. No currently available hardware-implemented wireless encryption is up to any reasonable safety standard, either. There are good solutions for dealing with potentially insecure devices on the network, insecure protocols, and even with secure access over insecure channels, but they involve some serious system administration work -- firewalls/routers and authentication servers' configuration, installation of VPN endpoints, distribution of keys to the users, writing policy documents, etc. More often than not I have seen those being done poorly by IT itself, but a user who thinks that of all things, MAC address whitelist is an adequate security measure, is definitely worse than even a very bad professional network admin.
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but on the other hand, it's Ericsson.
Translation: "When I will be rich..."
The situation now in so-called developed countries is approximately this:
1% contributes in any meaningful way,
90% does what a machine would do better but a human has to because otherwise he will have no money and no means for survival,
9% actively tries to steal from everyone else, 1% (out of the aforementioned 9%) succeeds and controls at least 50% of everything that people need to be productive, 8% (out of the same 9%) fails but still shits everything up.
Letting 90% just sit on their asses and do nothing would be a great improvement.
Are you a moron?
To make any kind of meaningful experiment, you have to prevent interaction with the outside world -- otherwise all you will see is people exploiting the differences. This is also a reason why plenty of laws that would make sense, are not implemented on US States' level -- because then hordes of people will find a way to abuse the difference between that state and its neighbors. What also means that "states' rights" are a ridiculous concept, and Americans would do better by focusing on improving things on Federal level, even if it means taking over the "states' rights" turning States into what they really are -- provinces.
How can the settlement with your company affect anything that a third party (PTO) is supposed to do as a part of its primary responsibilities? And how could it affect the fact that anyone (including you as you personally are not the company they "settled" with) can ask PTO to invalidate the patent again?
HBGary? Is that you?
Quite possible. It's a truly remarkable day today -- first time in Slashdot history US government shills outnumbered Microsoft shills.
(I will gb2/b/ shortly).
Sociopaths.
If one good thing will come out of the current (disgusting and overblown) pedophile scare, it will be willingness to discriminate against people whose mental deficiencies pose serious threat to the rest of society.
Yeah! Let's lower speed limits by 0.01% every time someone is hit!
(you will end up riding turtles in no time).
If that won't work, they would just reduce coaches' salaries by 5%, and they will be fine.
Or it can end up being nothing. It's up to Bose to decide if the company is going to pay any dividends at all.
If rabid conservative had their way tomorrow and eliminated Federal college loan & grant programs, what do you think would really be the long-term outcome?
Universities will get rid of teaching and research, and will reduce themselves to operating their sports teams.