Most of those who oppose systemd are pining for the Good Old Days of loading the boot target using bat-handle toggle switches on the front of their IMSAI. Technology marches on. Instead of wading through several kilobytes of init scripts to figure out what mods I need to make, I can create a systemd file of a few lines and I'm up and running.
But you can go back to worrying about how to pay for your 80-column card so you can get a wider screen to play Pong. Enjoy!
My phone runs the very latest version of Android which now asks for permissions each time the app is run, rather than once at installation time. Each time I start the MLB app it demands to know my location, which I deny, yet it still runs just fine.
The best defense is to run the minimum assortment of apps to get the job done. And delete apps that you no longer use for whatever reason.
Maybe by 2040 or so Major League Baseball Advanced Media will finally ditch Flash Player for HTML5 to show baseball games. Believe it or not an outfit that is positively drowning in cash just can't be bothered to update their web players. Seriously!
*I* have such systems deployed and would love to read your solution for this problem of isolated/insular nets that require Internet access for authentication.
In the USA they take away "free" travel lanes, then sell them back to you as carpool/HOV/HOT lanes. This creates scarcity and increases congestion in the existing lanes and makes the relatively quicker toll lanes more appealing, which fills up the government coffers. Sweet little scam.
So it's doubtful that getting rid of toll lanes would increase congestion, rather it would restore highway capacity so traffic should flow better.
The Internet was designed to be distributed so that it had no central point of attack/vulnerability. Was NOBODY paying attention for the last 20 years while money-grubbing businesses jockeyed for control, thus creating the very problem that it was designed to circumvent??!!
It's doubtful that Travis was the only problem child at Uber. He probably hired like-minded pals who remain in power there, so this won't be the last we hear of problems at Uber.
But this isn't "bro culture" or "toxic masculinity", he's just an everyday, run-of-the-mill, common asshole. Plenty more where he came from.
As long as people use these god-awful hanging mic/earbuds in noisy coffee shops and crappy speakerphones in echo-y conference rooms, all the high quality codecs in the world won't make them sound better.
That CAN be a problem, but it depends on a great many things: frequency used, antenna gain, path loss, to name a few. A good design should not suffer frequent outages, but these days everybody is a data head and knows very little to nothing about r.f. propagation.
I suspect the bigger impediment would be the rules and regulations and outright underhanded shenanigans by the incumbent stakeholders to keep out new competition.
Interference to the carriers' uplinks is a constant problem. You'd be amazed at the unlikely sources of garbage that generate spurious RF energy and apparently LTE needs pristine spectrum to work.
Still, WiFi is not designed for streaming data so good luck getting this to work at an acceptable level for John Q. Schmoe.
Because I've been trying to pick up women in bars to help me demonstrate the chemical reaction that sparks life. They just don't seem to grasp the significance of the scientific breakthrough that we could make together. I'd be willing to share the prize money 50/50, no problem.
ALL passenger travel loses money: airlines, buses, trains, all of it. That is not a worthwhile measure. The fact is that it moves lots of people while reducing pollution, congestion on the roads, and allowing passengers a degree of freedom from concentrating on navigating themselves so they can sleep, read, tweet, on contribute to the hegemony that is Facebook.
This is a very deep topic that goes beyond the scope of this discussion.
Plus, there was that blog post by the CEO of Level 3 in July, 2014 (since deleted with their site redesign) that depicted EXACTLY how Comcast was being totally disingenuous by providing sufficient peer link bandwidth in foreign markets where they faced competition, but providing hopelessly insufficient peer links domestically where they faced no competition. Then Comcast would turn around and blame their refusal to provide sufficient peering bandwidth on Netflix in order to deflect criticism, knowing that the sheep who are their customers would parrot the false claims.
If Comcast is just reselling a real carrier's air time then I'll continue to try to subscribe to Consumer Cellular for much less money. Except that no matter how many different ways I tried to sign up today CC's web site landed me on an internal error page, so they are not selling anything until they fix that problem.
Like others I don't want any more Comcast in my life. Less would be just peachy!
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Dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson: we have engaged...the Borg.
In Virginia these machines have been decertified. I imagine other states have acted as well.
Most of those who oppose systemd are pining for the Good Old Days of loading the boot target using bat-handle toggle switches on the front of their IMSAI. Technology marches on. Instead of wading through several kilobytes of init scripts to figure out what mods I need to make, I can create a systemd file of a few lines and I'm up and running.
But you can go back to worrying about how to pay for your 80-column card so you can get a wider screen to play Pong. Enjoy!
Point of order: a 2-2 tie means that the motion failed to get a majority, therefore the motion fails. No further action is required.
My phone runs the very latest version of Android which now asks for permissions each time the app is run, rather than once at installation time. Each time I start the MLB app it demands to know my location, which I deny, yet it still runs just fine.
The best defense is to run the minimum assortment of apps to get the job done. And delete apps that you no longer use for whatever reason.
They should analyze Trump's "brain" next.
Maybe by 2040 or so Major League Baseball Advanced Media will finally ditch Flash Player for HTML5 to show baseball games. Believe it or not an outfit that is positively drowning in cash just can't be bothered to update their web players. Seriously!
I've seen recent news broadcasts and the only thing that would mimic them successfully would be Artificial Stupidity.
Wul, the aurora borealis is real byooful tonight. If you're awake go see 'em. If you're not...then God bless ya. ::hic::
*I* have such systems deployed and would love to read your solution for this problem of isolated/insular nets that require Internet access for authentication.
In the USA they take away "free" travel lanes, then sell them back to you as carpool/HOV/HOT lanes. This creates scarcity and increases congestion in the existing lanes and makes the relatively quicker toll lanes more appealing, which fills up the government coffers. Sweet little scam.
So it's doubtful that getting rid of toll lanes would increase congestion, rather it would restore highway capacity so traffic should flow better.
slashdot is not as safe as you think!!
The Internet was designed to be distributed so that it had no central point of attack/vulnerability. Was NOBODY paying attention for the last 20 years while money-grubbing businesses jockeyed for control, thus creating the very problem that it was designed to circumvent??!!
HOW FUCKING STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE??!!
The worst part is that with high compression CoDecs (like G.729) that "music" will sound like garbage to the caller. Good luck with that.
Film at 11.
It's doubtful that Travis was the only problem child at Uber. He probably hired like-minded pals who remain in power there, so this won't be the last we hear of problems at Uber.
But this isn't "bro culture" or "toxic masculinity", he's just an everyday, run-of-the-mill, common asshole. Plenty more where he came from.
Everybody HATES their ISP, whichever it is. They all rank the worst.
As long as people use these god-awful hanging mic/earbuds in noisy coffee shops and crappy speakerphones in echo-y conference rooms, all the high quality codecs in the world won't make them sound better.
leaving no tip will imply bad service
Imply to whom? Who will know other than the driver? Why should this be the concern of the customer?
The passenger could just be Canadian.
That CAN be a problem, but it depends on a great many things: frequency used, antenna gain, path loss, to name a few. A good design should not suffer frequent outages, but these days everybody is a data head and knows very little to nothing about r.f. propagation.
I suspect the bigger impediment would be the rules and regulations and outright underhanded shenanigans by the incumbent stakeholders to keep out new competition.
The headline you will never see.
Interference to the carriers' uplinks is a constant problem. You'd be amazed at the unlikely sources of garbage that generate spurious RF energy and apparently LTE needs pristine spectrum to work.
Still, WiFi is not designed for streaming data so good luck getting this to work at an acceptable level for John Q. Schmoe.
Because I've been trying to pick up women in bars to help me demonstrate the chemical reaction that sparks life. They just don't seem to grasp the significance of the scientific breakthrough that we could make together. I'd be willing to share the prize money 50/50, no problem.
ALL passenger travel loses money: airlines, buses, trains, all of it. That is not a worthwhile measure. The fact is that it moves lots of people while reducing pollution, congestion on the roads, and allowing passengers a degree of freedom from concentrating on navigating themselves so they can sleep, read, tweet, on contribute to the hegemony that is Facebook.
This is a very deep topic that goes beyond the scope of this discussion.
Plus, there was that blog post by the CEO of Level 3 in July, 2014 (since deleted with their site redesign) that depicted EXACTLY how Comcast was being totally disingenuous by providing sufficient peer link bandwidth in foreign markets where they faced competition, but providing hopelessly insufficient peer links domestically where they faced no competition. Then Comcast would turn around and blame their refusal to provide sufficient peering bandwidth on Netflix in order to deflect criticism, knowing that the sheep who are their customers would parrot the false claims.
F@CK COMCAST.
If Comcast is just reselling a real carrier's air time then I'll continue to try to subscribe to Consumer Cellular for much less money. Except that no matter how many different ways I tried to sign up today CC's web site landed me on an internal error page, so they are not selling anything until they fix that problem.
Like others I don't want any more Comcast in my life. Less would be just peachy!