I wouldn't set foot in a 'driverless car' I have no direct control over, why the ever-loving fuck would I trust some half-assed excuse for AI to fly me somewhere? I can't think of a more terrifying experience. Why would ANYONE think this is a good idea? Human pilot ONLY, please. Or better yet just forget the whole thing.
WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!
If I had money right now and knew where to send it I'd send you $100.00 for that. Java 7 installs under WINE and PowerAgent actually runs. That, by the way, is the last piece of the puzzle so far as getting away from Windows entirely and for good.
A thousand "THANK YOUs" to you sir!
I didn't say there was such a thing as '100% secure comms' and I don't have to supply that technology either but I am saying that's what it would take.
Oh, no, it's not that at all, it's that they've made us all so used to it being business-as-usual that when you strip it down to the sarcastic bare metal like that it kinda smarts a bit.
The only thing I'd be concerned about is security. No one being able to tap into the feed. No one being able to use the cutting-edge technology available to create a 'virtual congressperson', digitally impersonating them. 'In person' in a secure setting prevents these problems.
1. 'Affected', not 'Effected'
2. "Since it's not happening to me directly, it must not be happening anywhere!" idiocy
How do you even have the brainpower to figure out how to use the Internet?
Anything to keep Chinese citizens under the thumb of The Party 24/7, cradle-to-grave. Can't raise good little automatons if you allow them to think for a moment that they have anything like Free Will.
Based on people I've talked to, I think it's more like "We want to reduce our payroll!"; *lays off skilled older employees, hires wet-behind-the-ears recent-college-graduates, who will work for peanuts -- and can't work their way out of a wet paper bag -- but are CHEAP LABOR*.
Ah, I see: so only The Rich can have high-paying jobs, since only The Rich can really afford a proper college education? Experience and know-how mean absolutely nothing? Because being a student means you're smarter than anyone else? Passing exams outweighs actually being able to produce things of value? LOL, NO.
Subject line says it all. Is this Googles' plan? Take over Wikimedia/Wikipedia through 'donations'? Why not, Special Interest Groups have been doing it with politicians since time immemorial..
Fine, I'll bite. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, and the Windows installer for Java doesn't run, therefore the one Windows program I want to use doesn't work either.
Here's what I want to run: https://www.powertap.com/produ...
If you have One Stupid Trick to get the current version of Java to install under the current version of WINE, then post it.
Several people have got the windows version of java running on wine, according to the wine site the installer doesnt work but java itself does so you can take an already installed version, copy it across and run it.
..okay, but that seems to imply having a working Windows installation handy you can copy it from, which creates an chicken-and-egg conundrum. If I have to have a bootable copy of Windows around then there's no point really messing with WINE is there?
I think if you confronted someone like Comcast/Xfinity execs about the cost of Cable TV and what you get for it, they'd now be quick to point out the 'hudreds of 1080 hidef channels of programming you get', never mind that of those, say, 500 channels, the vast majority of people watch maybe 10 to 12 of them at most, and then there's cable TV's dirty little secret: the recompression of HD content, so it's 'technically' 1080i, but the compression ratio is higher than the original source, so unless the scene is absolutely still, you get noticeable compression artifacts, something I'd been used to for a long time until I put up an antenna and noticed how much clearer OTA broadcasts were.
Are you the same AC I replied to above, or are you also someone who thinks your personal opinion and tastes are somehow representative of the majority? Spoiler: YOU'RE NOT.
Oh, no, you're not 'judgemental' at all, but neither are you reluctant to sling your personal opinions around. If all the shows Netflix were producing were so crappy then they'd stop producing them, it's not cheap to produce those at all.
ACs like you likely won't see this, but: I'm old enough to remember when 'Cable TV' was really more of an 'antenna service' so you didn't need an antenna on your house, and all you got were the local channels. HBO and Cinemax were the first 'cable only' channels and they played movies.
Why even bother with that when you can just point your browser at Weather Underground and get the best data and best forecasts without having to sit there and watch a video stream from one source or another?
The one piece of Windows software I'd still like to be able to use won't work under WINE because I can't install Java. Will this version support that? From the release notes it doesn't look like it does.
So are you unironically claiming that the average person isn't as dumb as a box of rocks? If they weren't dumb then Fecesbook and Twitter wouldn't be so popular.
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I wouldn't set foot in a 'driverless car' I have no direct control over, why the ever-loving fuck would I trust some half-assed excuse for AI to fly me somewhere? I can't think of a more terrifying experience. Why would ANYONE think this is a good idea? Human pilot ONLY, please. Or better yet just forget the whole thing.
WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!
If I had money right now and knew where to send it I'd send you $100.00 for that. Java 7 installs under WINE and PowerAgent actually runs.
That, by the way, is the last piece of the puzzle so far as getting away from Windows entirely and for good.
A thousand "THANK YOUs" to you sir!
I didn't say there was such a thing as '100% secure comms' and I don't have to supply that technology either but I am saying that's what it would take.
Oh, no, it's not that at all, it's that they've made us all so used to it being business-as-usual that when you strip it down to the sarcastic bare metal like that it kinda smarts a bit.
The only thing I'd be concerned about is security. No one being able to tap into the feed. No one being able to use the cutting-edge technology available to create a 'virtual congressperson', digitally impersonating them. 'In person' in a secure setting prevents these problems.
Yeowch.
1. 'Affected', not 'Effected'
2. "Since it's not happening to me directly, it must not be happening anywhere!" idiocy
How do you even have the brainpower to figure out how to use the Internet?
Why mod me down? Microsoft couldn't POSSIBLY abuse the power of this now could they? </sarcasm> Damnit, anyone with half a brain knows I'm right.
Anything to keep Chinese citizens under the thumb of The Party 24/7, cradle-to-grave. Can't raise good little automatons if you allow them to think for a moment that they have anything like Free Will.
Worse: any criminals can use it to target people in debt, with scams, blackmail them into committing crimes, etc etc etc
'nuff said.
Based on people I've talked to, I think it's more like "We want to reduce our payroll!"; *lays off skilled older employees, hires wet-behind-the-ears recent-college-graduates, who will work for peanuts -- and can't work their way out of a wet paper bag -- but are CHEAP LABOR*.
Ah, I see: so only The Rich can have high-paying jobs, since only The Rich can really afford a proper college education? Experience and know-how mean absolutely nothing? Because being a student means you're smarter than anyone else? Passing exams outweighs actually being able to produce things of value? LOL, NO.
Subject line says it all. Is this Googles' plan? Take over Wikimedia/Wikipedia through 'donations'? Why not, Special Interest Groups have been doing it with politicians since time immemorial..
See the above comment to another AC: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Same challenge goes to you.
Fine, I'll bite. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04, and the Windows installer for Java doesn't run, therefore the one Windows program I want to use doesn't work either.
Here's what I want to run: https://www.powertap.com/produ...
If you have One Stupid Trick to get the current version of Java to install under the current version of WINE, then post it.
Several people have got the windows version of java running on wine, according to the wine site the installer doesnt work but java itself does so you can take an already installed version, copy it across and run it.
..okay, but that seems to imply having a working Windows installation handy you can copy it from, which creates an chicken-and-egg conundrum. If I have to have a bootable copy of Windows around then there's no point really messing with WINE is there?
I think if you confronted someone like Comcast/Xfinity execs about the cost of Cable TV and what you get for it, they'd now be quick to point out the 'hudreds of 1080 hidef channels of programming you get', never mind that of those, say, 500 channels, the vast majority of people watch maybe 10 to 12 of them at most, and then there's cable TV's dirty little secret: the recompression of HD content, so it's 'technically' 1080i, but the compression ratio is higher than the original source, so unless the scene is absolutely still, you get noticeable compression artifacts, something I'd been used to for a long time until I put up an antenna and noticed how much clearer OTA broadcasts were.
Please see this comment regarding the origin of Cable TV: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Are you the same AC I replied to above, or are you also someone who thinks your personal opinion and tastes are somehow representative of the majority? Spoiler: YOU'RE NOT.
Oh, no, you're not 'judgemental' at all, but neither are you reluctant to sling your personal opinions around. If all the shows Netflix were producing were so crappy then they'd stop producing them, it's not cheap to produce those at all.
ACs like you likely won't see this, but: I'm old enough to remember when 'Cable TV' was really more of an 'antenna service' so you didn't need an antenna on your house, and all you got were the local channels. HBO and Cinemax were the first 'cable only' channels and they played movies.
Why even bother with that when you can just point your browser at Weather Underground and get the best data and best forecasts without having to sit there and watch a video stream from one source or another?
The one piece of Windows software I'd still like to be able to use won't work under WINE because I can't install Java. Will this version support that? From the release notes it doesn't look like it does.
So are you unironically claiming that the average person isn't as dumb as a box of rocks? If they weren't dumb then Fecesbook and Twitter wouldn't be so popular.