The solution here is for Gnome to simply turn off the features that depend on systemd when running on another OS, as for wayland, I am not fond of that myself and the problems it fixed could have been fixed with some simple X11 extensions that would protect backward and forward compatability
I strongly oppose closed source software, its a dark ages mentality meant to keep everyone illiterate in the incantations of software, should be opposed for the usual reasons which are given by the FSF, how it takes away users freedom and is counterproductive, making it impossible except for an elite cabal to improve the software. I might only consider closed source drivers so that good hardware support on Linux to support oddball hardware, but with open source drivers being available for all commonly used hardware in order to encourage more average people to try and use Linux.
I am not opposed to the idea of Wine finally being brought to where it can support 100% of Windows applications so that people can use a Windows app on Linux if they want, for the same reason I can accept the idea of a closed source driver for oddball hardware, to make the adoption of Linux easier for average people.
They already have digital broadcasts on the FM band, piggybacked on the analog signal, called HD Radio. Best Buy has a portable that can recieve the HD Radio signals.HD Radio on the FM band has been more controversial due to the negative impact on long range DX reception of AM clear channel stations, something which can actually still be quite valuable.
Whats killing FM is the HORRIBLE noise that passes for music these days, including Perry, Gaga and all the rest of that trash. NPR definitely has the best music selections. Some say the news is biased for"public" radio, when there are plenty of other outlets that offer such biased news. Nevertheless as a Republican, I support it anyway for the classical music and folk music that commercial stations don't touch.
Why modern browsers even allows users to download and execute binaries any more confounds me. The app repository idea is something long overdue for all desktop OSs as well, where all of the SHA verification can be done and so forth. It would be a good idea to apply some access rules to ban users from executing any executable in their user writable directories like their home directory. It also makes little sense that we insist installers run as super user when all they need to do is install a few files, yet they have to have access to the entire system. I would suggest running such installers at least in a filesystem overlay of some kind or a more of a complete sandbox or jail. Older Windows versions did not encourage users to use a non priveleged account for browsing. Still, even the prompt to request an administrator password is too much of a risk for them to install something. All installers should be default be run in a "fake root" environment such as the filesystem overlay.
What I would like to know is why not use another technology, irradiated sterile mosquitos, to bring down the mosquito populations, which would avoid the whole GMO issue, at least until more research can be done on it. Why must they use GMO skeeters when you have the irradiated technology which it appears would work just as well?
There is little doubt that the capitalism we now believe to have has led to increased rates of poverty and wealth consolidation. Indeed market economists can evolve into a sort of corporatist tyranny over time through mergers and acquisitions, ironically, reducing entrepreneurship and limited the options for small business ownership. Corporations are ironically only nominally free market, they would rather not have a market at all since competition is bad for profit margins. The abuses of corporatism is being exploited by communists to sell their agenda to young people who basically dont know better. It is absurd because communism is a broken ideology that will lead more towards tyrannical government control of things which would be even worse for individual rights than we now have. Marx correctly identifies several concerns but he uses that to push an agenda that is unworkable in reality. Communism, like atheism are little more than religions.
What we really need is to return to small business capitalism rather than communism, where average people own their own businesses, especially in the retail jobs which ironically are most adept at taking away many ownership opportunities.
Many groups are being heavily manipulated with economics and economic concern. They are told that what we have now is capitalism, and they seem themselves unable to get a break and unable to move out of parents basement. Since communism is toted as the opposite, they are drawn to it as an atlernative to what is not working. Part of the problem is that they are stuck between these two alternatives, none which work well. Ignored is another way which is small business capitalism. The promises of economic utopia can be used to undermine individual liberty and initiative, which can be important, ironically, for a healthy and innovative economy. Both millenials and foreign aliens, both democrat voting blocks, seem heavily influencable into supporting shrinking individual liberty in exchange for, not really even prosperity, but instead for "equality" or something like that. It is true that severe inequality is bad but having some equality is good. I do agree that even people in the least skilled jobs should be able to earn enough to cover their basic needs. The corporatists, associated with free market, give the free market a bad name by their shills showing little concern for the poverty that exists. It is important to offer solutions to this that does not involve communist ideas or growing government.
The democratic party has attempted to use charges of racism as well to basically cover up the fact that the corporations that have run the party have damaged working people. This is a red herring. Studies have shown that in fact whites are being severely harmed by offshoring and immigration and actually whites have lower average incomes than many immigrant groups, such as Indians, as Indian immigrants are stealing jobs from the american worker. Then you have millenials that want to be fashionable and politically correct who vote for a party that actually wants to bring in foreign aliens to steal their jobs and drive down their wages. This is why the millenial mentality is an unhealthy response, basically, its a suicidal generation, one that covers themselves with tattoos, destroys their hair, mutilates themselves and supports policies that are destroying their very own country by floooding it with third world riff raff, and then they whine about not being able to find a job. A good first start is not giving your jobs away to third world invaders and not tattooing yourself.
I do not believe the outcome of any of this will be communism as many are told to believe of it but something like China, which is a combination of totalitarian statism and corporatism. This is why many corporations dont have a huge problem with funding democrats with their sympathies to communism, they know the outcome will mean further enslavement of the worker and a further loss of individual rights, which suits them fine.
The Free software foundation has written a recommended piece as to why you should avoid software as a service and that "open source" software as a service in no way protects users freedom or privacy. Online services should only be used when you want to share information with others. When you are working on data for your own use, their is no point in using software as a service, you give up rights when you do so.
A lot of people prefer PCs. Its user base is not shrinking.l the problem is people are replacing PCs far less often than they used to. This creates the illusion that its shrinking. Its not. But its enough of a problem to create a hit on the bottom line of the CPU companies.
Intel has an x86 smartphone CPU. x86 is a huge server platform. PCs are not going anywhere, people are just replacing their PCs every 7 rather than 3 years. This creates the illusion that the PC market is shrinking. its not. Smartphones are hellish when you want to do any real work. Not many want to do their taxes on a smartphone.
Youre kidding. Its a huge server platform. Intel did drop the ball on mobile and should have been out on the market early on that one. But, somehow, they let it get away from them.
The idea that there is something wrong with the current "laws", more accurately, theories, warrants study. What we have with data on electromagnetism and gravity are theories which have been tested in particular and limited experimental conditions. It has never been proven that the EM and gravity behaves in the way which has been tested in all contexts because there are such a large number of other contexts which have not been investigated. That is, it is not out of the question that EM And Gravity may be more complex than current theory and may behave in a different way than now understood under certain field arrangements and conditions which have not been tested. The assumptions of EM and gravity behave the same way even in settings on which there is no data is an unfounded extrapolation that since these forces act one way under certain settings the behave in the same way under all other settings, without any data on those other settings.
The idea that you haev these laws called EM and Gravity which are just absolute perfection and we cannot question and cannot have any flaws with them, and we assume without data that they behave in the same way always and in all situations even ones where there is no data, and that when an anomaly is detected it is automatically assumed it cannot be due to a problem with the theory of EM and gravity, is just plain arrogance.
Amazon is one of the top 30 who fires america workers to replace them with H1B foreign workers. Amazon specializes in destroying retail jobs and brick and mortar businesses. Notice the irony of a company that destroys jobs and throws american families onto the street then tries to whitewash itself with fake concern for the homelessness it helps create.
Not to downplay the need for operators, people need jobs, but shouldnt they have a "dont stand on the yellow tiles" recording that plays when the train enters?
It may be that many civilizations reach the industrial level know seen at earth and not much further. Remember that radio signals that are normally produced for practical terrestrial and interplanetary communications (mars probes) are far too weak to be detected by the aliens version of whatever radio telescope we have ever built on earth;. So not finding a radio signal means little, the ETs version of Channel 8 NBC is simply too weak to be easily detected from earth.
The empire state buildings they build are far too small to be seen from a telescope from here, of course. So, there could be huge numbers out there but it is highly likely that anything they build will be too small to be seen from earth by a telescope.
So, looking for radio signals or looking at stars from 10,000 light years away is not going to give you a yes or no answer if there is anything there.
It would be good to see the others restored such as this. I can understand the need for people to experience the movie as they originally remember it. I am of the view both the original version and the CGI enhanced version could have been made available by the studio so people could watch which one they please. But they seem much to arrogant for that. Its appalling how these companies treat their fans which made them a success.
i think the whole point of it is to have a car that looks retro, just like the original, rather than to have a "modern" looking car. They are using a modern engine because the engine is "out of sight" and that a modern engine probably would work better. If you want a "modern" car you would just buy a modern car, if your buying a replica you dont want a modern car and wouldnt want it to look like one.
Also, tastes vary but I do not think that modern cars are all that pretty. I liked the sharp, crisp lines and edges of 80s styling. I think that looks more "modern" than the "snot glob" styling of modern cars.
Its nice to see this however we really should, in general, have a better way for Linux programs to be able to easily take advantage of the CPU extensions available without recompile. There are dozens of permutations of CPU extensions, so distributing a binary for each permutation is not feasible. Full from source compilation takes too long for many users. Having Linux binaries being able to use the CPUs most advanced features has been a problem. One solution that I favor is to take a page from AS/400, in a variation of that, in each library file, put a copy of the machine code, but also a copy of the abstract syntax tree, the last compilation phase. If the binary is moved to a new CPU, the AST is run through the code generator to regenerate the machine code in the file according to the options the CPU supports. All done in situ. This is much better than storing a copy a binary for each CPU permutation in a library file. It makes things easy to use and is faster than compiling from source as the lexer and parser phase does not need to be repeated.
Electric cars are supposedly an environmentally friendly technology. Has anyone looked at the *long term* sustainability and renewability of the battery technology and materials that are being used in the manufacture of the batteries. The toxicity profile is another issue, toxicity becomes much more of the problem when you are dealing with huge quantities and volumes of material as in a battery.
I know people talk about hydrogen. I once read a science fiction story about a planet that drained its oceans and killing itself off by burning up all of its water to make hydrogen, the free hydrogen would end up escaping the atmosphere into space. I dont know if thats a realistic scientific possibility but its something to keep in mind. What about creating all of that free hydrogen from water, what problems are there with the hydrogen then escaping the atmosphere? We need to consider the sustainability implication for the long term such as a billion years of use of such technology.
A technology which was of interest and which avoided many of these issues was cars powered by pressurized air. Tata in India was working on such a car. The benefits are that the storage medium of course is abundant, its a reuseable medium, its just air, its non-toxic, and its lightweight meaning that the car doesnt expend much energy to carry the fuel itself around. The air itself isnt harmed in any way, the air is stored and then released again, totally renewable. Fill-ups probably can be fast, as the pressurized air can be pumped from a tank at a service station into a car. There are some engineering difficulties but Tata was working on it. It could be a great thing if can be made to work.
Of course neither this and none of the aformentioned technologies are energy generation technology they are energy storage. With an air tank you might use say, a solar panel to provide the energy drive the air pump that pumps the air into the cars pressurized air tank. This stores the solar energy as pressurized air. The air is then gradually released from the tank by valves that drive the cars cylinders. To some degree the process can be inverted, you can create a vacuum and use the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere to push air into the vacuum tank, harnessing the velocity of the jet of air as it does so.
As for solar technologies an often overlooked solar technology is the use of solar concentrated thermal technology, a mirror dish is used for instance to focus solar energy on a stirling engine which can then convert the energy into mechanical and electrical energy. The advantages of this is the technology avoids the needs for expensive photovoltaic production of large surface areas. A version of this also focuses a larger amount of solar energy on a smaller photovoltaic cell using the dish.
The concern over this is bizzare. The way these people talk as if you can only use an asteroid for scientific means is insane. These people are worried about mining some lifeless rock when we are turning areas of the earths surface into moonscapes for mining? If we have a way that we can alleviate the strain on limited terrestrial resources, and reduce the impacts of mining on terrestrial ecosystems on earth, I think we should go for it. The idea that private companies should not be allowed to invest and be able to recoup their investment and make a profit by making their product available on the open market to benefit consumers is nuts. Here we have a way to mine a lifeless body in space instead of mine some rainforest on earth, if someone can figure out how to do this, kudos, if its a private company, thats great, everyone will benefit. Private investment helps fund these kinds of things without need for as much taxpayer confiscation.
I am not anti-systemd and that systemd is built around a modular architecture usign DBUS is a point that needs to be made clearly to defuse arguments against it. I do agree that many arguments people are using against it are disinformation and deceptive.
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The solution here is for Gnome to simply turn off the features that depend on systemd when running on another OS, as for wayland, I am not fond of that myself and the problems it fixed could have been fixed with some simple X11 extensions that would protect backward and forward compatability
I strongly oppose closed source software, its a dark ages mentality meant to keep everyone illiterate in the incantations of software, should be opposed for the usual reasons which are given by the FSF, how it takes away users freedom and is counterproductive, making it impossible except for an elite cabal to improve the software. I might only consider closed source drivers so that good hardware support on Linux to support oddball hardware, but with open source drivers being available for all commonly used hardware in order to encourage more average people to try and use Linux.
I am not opposed to the idea of Wine finally being brought to where it can support 100% of Windows applications so that people can use a Windows app on Linux if they want, for the same reason I can accept the idea of a closed source driver for oddball hardware, to make the adoption of Linux easier for average people.
I meant to say on the AM band it has been controversial.
They already have digital broadcasts on the FM band, piggybacked on the analog signal, called HD Radio. Best Buy has a portable that can recieve the HD Radio signals.HD Radio on the FM band has been more controversial due to the negative impact on long range DX reception of AM clear channel stations, something which can actually still be quite valuable.
a feritt rod is more substaintial than a telescoping FM antenna?
Whats killing FM is the HORRIBLE noise that passes for music these days, including Perry, Gaga and all the rest of that trash. NPR definitely has the best music selections. Some say the news is biased for"public" radio, when there are plenty of other outlets that offer such biased news. Nevertheless as a Republican, I support it anyway for the classical music and folk music that commercial stations don't touch.
Why modern browsers even allows users to download and execute binaries any more confounds me. The app repository idea is something long overdue for all desktop OSs as well, where all of the SHA verification can be done and so forth. It would be a good idea to apply some access rules to ban users from executing any executable in their user writable directories like their home directory. It also makes little sense that we insist installers run as super user when all they need to do is install a few files, yet they have to have access to the entire system. I would suggest running such installers at least in a filesystem overlay of some kind or a more of a complete sandbox or jail. Older Windows versions did not encourage users to use a non priveleged account for browsing. Still, even the prompt to request an administrator password is too much of a risk for them to install something. All installers should be default be run in a "fake root" environment such as the filesystem overlay.
What I would like to know is why not use another technology, irradiated sterile mosquitos, to bring down the mosquito populations, which would avoid the whole GMO issue, at least until more research can be done on it. Why must they use GMO skeeters when you have the irradiated technology which it appears would work just as well?
There is little doubt that the capitalism we now believe to have has led to increased rates of poverty and wealth consolidation. Indeed market economists can evolve into a sort of corporatist tyranny over time through mergers and acquisitions, ironically, reducing entrepreneurship and limited the options for small business ownership. Corporations are ironically only nominally free market, they would rather not have a market at all since competition is bad for profit margins. The abuses of corporatism is being exploited by communists to sell their agenda to young people who basically dont know better. It is absurd because communism is a broken ideology that will lead more towards tyrannical government control of things which would be even worse for individual rights than we now have. Marx correctly identifies several concerns but he uses that to push an agenda that is unworkable in reality. Communism, like atheism are little more than religions.
What we really need is to return to small business capitalism rather than communism, where average people own their own businesses, especially in the retail jobs which ironically are most adept at taking away many ownership opportunities.
Many groups are being heavily manipulated with economics and economic concern. They are told that what we have now is capitalism, and they seem themselves unable to get a break and unable to move out of parents basement. Since communism is toted as the opposite, they are drawn to it as an atlernative to what is not working. Part of the problem is that they are stuck between these two alternatives, none which work well. Ignored is another way which is small business capitalism. The promises of economic utopia can be used to undermine individual liberty and initiative, which can be important, ironically, for a healthy and innovative economy. Both millenials and foreign aliens, both democrat voting blocks, seem heavily influencable into supporting shrinking individual liberty in exchange for, not really even prosperity, but instead for "equality" or something like that. It is true that severe inequality is bad but having some equality is good. I do agree that even people in the least skilled jobs should be able to earn enough to cover their basic needs. The corporatists, associated with free market, give the free market a bad name by their shills showing little concern for the poverty that exists. It is important to offer solutions to this that does not involve communist ideas or growing government.
The democratic party has attempted to use charges of racism as well to basically cover up the fact that the corporations that have run the party have damaged working people. This is a red herring. Studies have shown that in fact whites are being severely harmed by offshoring and immigration and actually whites have lower average incomes than many immigrant groups, such as Indians, as Indian immigrants are stealing jobs from the american worker. Then you have millenials that want to be fashionable and politically correct who vote for a party that actually wants to bring in foreign aliens to steal their jobs and drive down their wages. This is why the millenial mentality is an unhealthy response, basically, its a suicidal generation, one that covers themselves with tattoos, destroys their hair, mutilates themselves and supports policies that are destroying their very own country by floooding it with third world riff raff, and then they whine about not being able to find a job. A good first start is not giving your jobs away to third world invaders and not tattooing yourself.
I do not believe the outcome of any of this will be communism as many are told to believe of it but something like China, which is a combination of totalitarian statism and corporatism. This is why many corporations dont have a huge problem with funding democrats with their sympathies to communism, they know the outcome will mean further enslavement of the worker and a further loss of individual rights, which suits them fine.
The result of communism an
The Free software foundation has written a recommended piece as to why you should avoid software as a service and that "open source" software as a service in no way protects users freedom or privacy. Online services should only be used when you want to share information with others. When you are working on data for your own use, their is no point in using software as a service, you give up rights when you do so.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html
A lot of people prefer PCs. Its user base is not shrinking.l the problem is people are replacing PCs far less often than they used to. This creates the illusion that its shrinking. Its not. But its enough of a problem to create a hit on the bottom line of the CPU companies.
Intel has an x86 smartphone CPU. x86 is a huge server platform. PCs are not going anywhere, people are just replacing their PCs every 7 rather than 3 years. This creates the illusion that the PC market is shrinking. its not. Smartphones are hellish when you want to do any real work. Not many want to do their taxes on a smartphone.
Youre kidding. Its a huge server platform. Intel did drop the ball on mobile and should have been out on the market early on that one. But, somehow, they let it get away from them.
The idea that there is something wrong with the current "laws", more accurately, theories, warrants study. What we have with data on electromagnetism and gravity are theories which have been tested in particular and limited experimental conditions. It has never been proven that the EM and gravity behaves in the way which has been tested in all contexts because there are such a large number of other contexts which have not been investigated. That is, it is not out of the question that EM And Gravity may be more complex than current theory and may behave in a different way than now understood under certain field arrangements and conditions which have not been tested. The assumptions of EM and gravity behave the same way even in settings on which there is no data is an unfounded extrapolation that since these forces act one way under certain settings the behave in the same way under all other settings, without any data on those other settings.
The idea that you haev these laws called EM and Gravity which are just absolute perfection and we cannot question and cannot have any flaws with them, and we assume without data that they behave in the same way always and in all situations even ones where there is no data, and that when an anomaly is detected it is automatically assumed it cannot be due to a problem with the theory of EM and gravity, is just plain arrogance.
Amazon is one of the top 30 who fires america workers to replace them with H1B foreign workers. Amazon specializes in destroying retail jobs and brick and mortar businesses. Notice the irony of a company that destroys jobs and throws american families onto the street then tries to whitewash itself with fake concern for the homelessness it helps create.
Not to downplay the need for operators, people need jobs, but shouldnt they have a "dont stand on the yellow tiles" recording that plays when the train enters?
It may be that many civilizations reach the industrial level know seen at earth and not much further. Remember that radio signals that are normally produced for practical terrestrial and interplanetary communications (mars probes) are far too weak to be detected by the aliens version of whatever radio telescope we have ever built on earth;. So not finding a radio signal means little, the ETs version of Channel 8 NBC is simply too weak to be easily detected from earth.
The empire state buildings they build are far too small to be seen from a telescope from here, of course. So, there could be huge numbers out there but it is highly likely that anything they build will be too small to be seen from earth by a telescope.
So, looking for radio signals or looking at stars from 10,000 light years away is not going to give you a yes or no answer if there is anything there.
It would be good to see the others restored such as this. I can understand the need for people to experience the movie as they originally remember it. I am of the view both the original version and the CGI enhanced version could have been made available by the studio so people could watch which one they please. But they seem much to arrogant for that. Its appalling how these companies treat their fans which made them a success.
Debian dumping Linux Standard Base was really a big slam against interoperability.
Maybe scan it with lasers and print out new dies on a 3D printer?
i think the whole point of it is to have a car that looks retro, just like the original, rather than to have a "modern" looking car. They are using a modern engine because the engine is "out of sight" and that a modern engine probably would work better. If you want a "modern" car you would just buy a modern car, if your buying a replica you dont want a modern car and wouldnt want it to look like one.
Also, tastes vary but I do not think that modern cars are all that pretty. I liked the sharp, crisp lines and edges of 80s styling. I think that looks more "modern" than the "snot glob" styling of modern cars.
Its nice to see this however we really should, in general, have a better way for Linux programs to be able to easily take advantage of the CPU extensions available without recompile. There are dozens of permutations of CPU extensions, so distributing a binary for each permutation is not feasible. Full from source compilation takes too long for many users. Having Linux binaries being able to use the CPUs most advanced features has been a problem. One solution that I favor is to take a page from AS/400, in a variation of that, in each library file, put a copy of the machine code, but also a copy of the abstract syntax tree, the last compilation phase. If the binary is moved to a new CPU, the AST is run through the code generator to regenerate the machine code in the file according to the options the CPU supports. All done in situ. This is much better than storing a copy a binary for each CPU permutation in a library file. It makes things easy to use and is faster than compiling from source as the lexer and parser phase does not need to be repeated.
Electric cars are supposedly an environmentally friendly technology. Has anyone looked at the *long term* sustainability and renewability of the battery technology and materials that are being used in the manufacture of the batteries. The toxicity profile is another issue, toxicity becomes much more of the problem when you are dealing with huge quantities and volumes of material as in a battery.
I know people talk about hydrogen. I once read a science fiction story about a planet that drained its oceans and killing itself off by burning up all of its water to make hydrogen, the free hydrogen would end up escaping the atmosphere into space. I dont know if thats a realistic scientific possibility but its something to keep in mind. What about creating all of that free hydrogen from water, what problems are there with the hydrogen then escaping the atmosphere? We need to consider the sustainability implication for the long term such as a billion years of use of such technology.
A technology which was of interest and which avoided many of these issues was cars powered by pressurized air. Tata in India was working on such a car. The benefits are that the storage medium of course is abundant, its a reuseable medium, its just air, its non-toxic, and its lightweight meaning that the car doesnt expend much energy to carry the fuel itself around. The air itself isnt harmed in any way, the air is stored and then released again, totally renewable. Fill-ups probably can be fast, as the pressurized air can be pumped from a tank at a service station into a car. There are some engineering difficulties but Tata was working on it. It could be a great thing if can be made to work.
Of course neither this and none of the aformentioned technologies are energy generation technology they are energy storage. With an air tank you might use say, a solar panel to provide the energy drive the air pump that pumps the air into the cars pressurized air tank. This stores the solar energy as pressurized air. The air is then gradually released from the tank by valves that drive the cars cylinders. To some degree the process can be inverted, you can create a vacuum and use the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere to push air into the vacuum tank, harnessing the velocity of the jet of air as it does so.
As for solar technologies an often overlooked solar technology is the use of solar concentrated thermal technology, a mirror dish is used for instance to focus solar energy on a stirling engine which can then convert the energy into mechanical and electrical energy. The advantages of this is the technology avoids the needs for expensive photovoltaic production of large surface areas. A version of this also focuses a larger amount of solar energy on a smaller photovoltaic cell using the dish.
The concern over this is bizzare. The way these people talk as if you can only use an asteroid for scientific means is insane. These people are worried about mining some lifeless rock when we are turning areas of the earths surface into moonscapes for mining? If we have a way that we can alleviate the strain on limited terrestrial resources, and reduce the impacts of mining on terrestrial ecosystems on earth, I think we should go for it. The idea that private companies should not be allowed to invest and be able to recoup their investment and make a profit by making their product available on the open market to benefit consumers is nuts. Here we have a way to mine a lifeless body in space instead of mine some rainforest on earth, if someone can figure out how to do this, kudos, if its a private company, thats great, everyone will benefit. Private investment helps fund these kinds of things without need for as much taxpayer confiscation.
I am not anti-systemd and that systemd is built around a modular architecture usign DBUS is a point that needs to be made clearly to defuse arguments against it. I do agree that many arguments people are using against it are disinformation and deceptive.