The freemium model was always based on a scam: we "give away" the product, but for it to actually be useful, you have to pay. So anyone who tried the free version came away disillusioned about what the tool or product could actually do, and those who realized they needed to pay for the useful features came away feeling ripped off because "it's supposed to be free."
Worse still are those products where you can do everything with the free version, but it's a pain in the arse to do so compared to using the add-ons.
Let us face it: very few products can be built on a framework-and-plugin model successfully. In order for it to work in the market, those plugins have to provide some pretty impressive functionality to justify paying for them. But due to greed, a lot of the people and companies who tried this model instead shipped a crippled "free" version to force you to pay for the plugins and expansions.
In short, they treated their market as gullible idiots. And their market rebelled against being taken for fools.
The one problem I encountered with Windows 10 is my Linux box could no longer print to the network printer. Sure enough, sharing had been disabled by the upgrade. But even when I re-enabled sharing of the printer, Linux couldn't print to it. Linux could find it. Linux could connect to it. But it would get stuck trying to spool the document and never show up in the print queue under Windows 10.
I opted for the obvious (and easy) solution of moving the printer to my Linux box, but not everyone can do that, especially with a truly shared printer in an office. Though, to be fair, print servers really should be running Linux in the first place. They're more reliable.
I couldn't believe how much crapware I had to disable with Windows 10, though, especially from the menu. WTF would I want an "XBox" account tile for when I don't own a gaming system of any kind, much less one susceptible to the "red ring of death"?
On the bright side, all of my commercial databases seem to run just fine. Even Cygwin hasn't given me grief yet.
With no CA, how can you claim that it's "more secure"? You have no way of knowing the certificate was actually issued for the server you connect to if that's the case!
Here I'd always thought people were just using self-signed certs, but if there is no CA, it's not even that secure.
TLS is no more broken than SSL, and can be used by HTTPS sessions. If anything, SSL is the older and less reliable protocol, and that is what SSH is built over. So is sftp.
Regardless of whether you are using TLS or SSL, you are relying on the same public key infrastructure system to identify hosts. So I don't know where you get the idea that SSH is "more secure."
What made the original watchable was the delectable Jessica Alba. It was the only movie she ever appeared nekkid in. (Although her being invisible at the time kind of took away from the moment.:P )
I've only had to deal with air-gapped machines on one project, but we used to send out engineers/developers to upgrade those machines. They were security-critical, so we couldn't have customer support staff getting root access to do upgrades, and they were too operationally-critical to trust to automated update disks (not USB sticks -- those can be modified in shipping.)
So we sent staff to do the installs and updates. Not that there was a huge client base, and it was a pricey project, so the cost was negligable. But the customers were not willing to have anyone other than a trained technician doing the upgrades who was ready to deal with any "situations" that might arise. And they did arise -- twice.
Had we not had technicians on site during those issues, the customers would have been down for at least a day while staff were flown out, and we would have been lynched.
1. Create.html text file
2. Open.html text file in browser
3. Write content in text editor.
4. Save file.
5. Refresh browser window
6. Fix any broken tags
7. Lather, rinse, repeat.
If all you're doing is creating content, that's all you need to do. If you want fancy WYSWIG features, you're barking up the wrong tree to expect to do it with "real" HTML support. WYSWIG implies that you have precise control over layouts; HTML presumes you have no precise control over layouts. The goals are incompatible.
You get to use Apache 2 software with GPL/LGPL code, but you do not get to rewrite the license that Apache 2 code was released under. The fact that someone gives you permission to use something doesn't mean you get to relicense it however you want.
I'm not arguing that improvements to education wouldn't produce better and more knowledgeable students. Far from it.
What I am arguing is that some people are innately better at certain things than others, and that no amount of education will correct for that. Some people are "smart", others are gifted in art or music, others are athletically inclined. Without the differences between us, the world would be monotone.
But there are differences between people, and no amount of education or practice will magically "correct" those differences to the degree that you seem to be arguing.
It doesn't matter what industry segment you look at, the "leaders" always take the credit for other's work. Some guy on the shop floor saved $2 million a year in manufacturing costs? The shop floor manager gets the bonus.
Some engineer came up with a new chemical dye process for VLSI manufacturing? The department head gets the bonus.
Some programmer worked their ass off re-writing the accounting system to correct bugs and improve performance? The director of accounting gets the bonus.
It is the nature of the "rich and powerful" to be greedy fucks about the bonuses and the fame.
That is just liberal hogwash. Some people are better at some things than others, and no amount of forced classes or training is going to make them any better at it.
All of these articles about CS lately confuse correlation with cause.
The simple fact of the matter is that kids who enjoy the "challenge" of programming are more likely to be logical, analytical thinkers than their peers, and are therefore likely to do better at all subjects that require those skills. Taking a CS course is not "causing" them to be better at those other subjects -- their ability is innate.
Forcing someone to take a class they neither enjoy nor are good at is not going to magically make them better students. It will expand their experience with different subjects, but it's not going to make them good at it.
The problem is the D&D universe is meant to be explored and played with. It places little emphasis on character development (as in personality), and even less on storylines. This has carried through to every attempt ever made to turn them into movies, whether for the big screen or for TV.
The biggest problem they face is that there are no "standard" characters that people are waiting to see, because there are so many characters from the various game packs, not one of which had a memorable personality to make them famous. So where something like "Lord of the Rings" had memorable characters like Gandalf that people were waiting to see brought to life, D&D has no such strengths.
Oh sure, let's trust the people who can't even protect their own networks to properly identify the perpetrators of a hack instead of some innocent bystander running a TOR exit node. I can't see any risks associated with that. No. Not at all...:(
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You mean "Alphabet SOAP". :D
The freemium model was always based on a scam: we "give away" the product, but for it to actually be useful, you have to pay. So anyone who tried the free version came away disillusioned about what the tool or product could actually do, and those who realized they needed to pay for the useful features came away feeling ripped off because "it's supposed to be free."
Worse still are those products where you can do everything with the free version, but it's a pain in the arse to do so compared to using the add-ons.
Let us face it: very few products can be built on a framework-and-plugin model successfully. In order for it to work in the market, those plugins have to provide some pretty impressive functionality to justify paying for them. But due to greed, a lot of the people and companies who tried this model instead shipped a crippled "free" version to force you to pay for the plugins and expansions.
In short, they treated their market as gullible idiots. And their market rebelled against being taken for fools.
Sooner or later, someone had to try to trademark or copyright the alphabet. :P
a.k.a. disabling and removing crapware
Why, then, is it not available for Windows 10?
Meanwhile Cortana is not available in Canada because Microsoft would have to provide French support as well as English in order to be legal here.
The printer printed just fine from Windows itself, so I don't believe it's a driver problem. I think they've "tweaked" the SMB protocol again.
File shares mount correctly from Linux, but printer shares don't work for me.
It may well be that they didn't migrate the printer share because the new protocol is incompatible with the old.
The one problem I encountered with Windows 10 is my Linux box could no longer print to the network printer. Sure enough, sharing had been disabled by the upgrade. But even when I re-enabled sharing of the printer, Linux couldn't print to it. Linux could find it. Linux could connect to it. But it would get stuck trying to spool the document and never show up in the print queue under Windows 10.
I opted for the obvious (and easy) solution of moving the printer to my Linux box, but not everyone can do that, especially with a truly shared printer in an office. Though, to be fair, print servers really should be running Linux in the first place. They're more reliable.
I couldn't believe how much crapware I had to disable with Windows 10, though, especially from the menu. WTF would I want an "XBox" account tile for when I don't own a gaming system of any kind, much less one susceptible to the "red ring of death"?
On the bright side, all of my commercial databases seem to run just fine. Even Cygwin hasn't given me grief yet.
With no CA, how can you claim that it's "more secure"? You have no way of knowing the certificate was actually issued for the server you connect to if that's the case!
Here I'd always thought people were just using self-signed certs, but if there is no CA, it's not even that secure.
TLS is no more broken than SSL, and can be used by HTTPS sessions. If anything, SSL is the older and less reliable protocol, and that is what SSH is built over. So is sftp.
Regardless of whether you are using TLS or SSL, you are relying on the same public key infrastructure system to identify hosts. So I don't know where you get the idea that SSH is "more secure."
What made the original watchable was the delectable Jessica Alba. It was the only movie she ever appeared nekkid in. (Although her being invisible at the time kind of took away from the moment. :P )
I've only had to deal with air-gapped machines on one project, but we used to send out engineers/developers to upgrade those machines. They were security-critical, so we couldn't have customer support staff getting root access to do upgrades, and they were too operationally-critical to trust to automated update disks (not USB sticks -- those can be modified in shipping.)
So we sent staff to do the installs and updates. Not that there was a huge client base, and it was a pricey project, so the cost was negligable. But the customers were not willing to have anyone other than a trained technician doing the upgrades who was ready to deal with any "situations" that might arise. And they did arise -- twice.
Had we not had technicians on site during those issues, the customers would have been down for at least a day while staff were flown out, and we would have been lynched.
*sigh*
ECMAScript IS Javascript. So what you're saying is Microsoft's compile-to-javascript tool is starting to define javascript itself.
You don't see a problem with that?
This October, vote Anyone But Conservative in Canada (ABC).
I mean [W]hat[Y]ou[S]ee[I]s[W]hat[Y]ou[G]et.
Man I hate migraine days...
1. Create .html text file .html text file in browser
2. Open
3. Write content in text editor.
4. Save file.
5. Refresh browser window
6. Fix any broken tags
7. Lather, rinse, repeat.
If all you're doing is creating content, that's all you need to do. If you want fancy WYSWIG features, you're barking up the wrong tree to expect to do it with "real" HTML support. WYSWIG implies that you have precise control over layouts; HTML presumes you have no precise control over layouts. The goals are incompatible.
You get to use Apache 2 software with GPL/LGPL code, but you do not get to rewrite the license that Apache 2 code was released under. The fact that someone gives you permission to use something doesn't mean you get to relicense it however you want.
I'm not arguing that improvements to education wouldn't produce better and more knowledgeable students. Far from it.
What I am arguing is that some people are innately better at certain things than others, and that no amount of education will correct for that. Some people are "smart", others are gifted in art or music, others are athletically inclined. Without the differences between us, the world would be monotone.
But there are differences between people, and no amount of education or practice will magically "correct" those differences to the degree that you seem to be arguing.
If education could magically impart an IQ of 120 on someone with an IQ of 75, do you think we'd have people like you in this world?
Are you shitting me? Those books were such two-dimensional, hack-written tripe it's disgusting.
It doesn't matter what industry segment you look at, the "leaders" always take the credit for other's work. Some guy on the shop floor saved $2 million a year in manufacturing costs? The shop floor manager gets the bonus.
Some engineer came up with a new chemical dye process for VLSI manufacturing? The department head gets the bonus.
Some programmer worked their ass off re-writing the accounting system to correct bugs and improve performance? The director of accounting gets the bonus.
It is the nature of the "rich and powerful" to be greedy fucks about the bonuses and the fame.
That is just liberal hogwash. Some people are better at some things than others, and no amount of forced classes or training is going to make them any better at it.
All of these articles about CS lately confuse correlation with cause.
The simple fact of the matter is that kids who enjoy the "challenge" of programming are more likely to be logical, analytical thinkers than their peers, and are therefore likely to do better at all subjects that require those skills. Taking a CS course is not "causing" them to be better at those other subjects -- their ability is innate.
Forcing someone to take a class they neither enjoy nor are good at is not going to magically make them better students. It will expand their experience with different subjects, but it's not going to make them good at it.
Do you remember the paperbacks written for D&D?
They sucked, too.
The problem is the D&D universe is meant to be explored and played with. It places little emphasis on character development (as in personality), and even less on storylines. This has carried through to every attempt ever made to turn them into movies, whether for the big screen or for TV.
The biggest problem they face is that there are no "standard" characters that people are waiting to see, because there are so many characters from the various game packs, not one of which had a memorable personality to make them famous. So where something like "Lord of the Rings" had memorable characters like Gandalf that people were waiting to see brought to life, D&D has no such strengths.
I predict another 1-star flop.
Oh sure, let's trust the people who can't even protect their own networks to properly identify the perpetrators of a hack instead of some innocent bystander running a TOR exit node. I can't see any risks associated with that. No. Not at all... :(