Hehe, "Some will be lost in the sands of time." Let's see.... how many ebook readers customers primarily read non-DRM'd content from places like Project Gutenberg. Oh yeah, basically none as all the e-book providers DRM-by-default. Thus, you are full of shit. Personally, I've already lost more ebooks to DRM than any other reason. When Sony ditched their e-readers they didn't port their DRM scheme to Kobo. That's just one of dozens of examples. The books I have form the 1800's are ones that folks wanted to save and thought were worth more than the pulp-fiction of their day. At least the winnowing process there is pretty obviously based on reader-choice, and not some corporate asshole deciding I haven't bought the book enough times in enough formats. You seem to think format-shifting is just bullshit or doesn't occur. Did you just start collecting e-books yesterday or something. Bro, do you even read?
The rich aren't building shit, the are leeches, now. Guillotines worked pretty fucking well for the French. Leave the weasels in place and all they will do is put further laws and regulations in to "save their place" in society - their place as worthless leeches. The fact that they "finance" things is a function of them having all the fucking resources in the first place, not because they are such nice rentiers and overlords.
Despite a fancy phrase (survivorship bias) everything you said is still bullshit hand-waving and everything he said still appears true & valid. You can't 'explain away' or handwave the FACT that books will outlast all the format-shifting. The fact that some things can be emulated doesn't mean they will be or that it will be done well. It also utterly fails to address the role of DRM. Nah, anyway, you're just wrong and trying to pimp some weak points in the face of a superior line of reasoning. Oh and just like homeboy, I have *many* books from the 1800's and turn of the century. They are in fine shape and perfectly readable. So.... bullshit flag thrown.
When we all have jobs that are as bad or worse. Everybody is getting squeezed. Learn to love it or start building guillotines. Those are pretty much the options.
Gotta agree. Universities are not the answer, though. They are too far divorced from the work-environ. I interview new grads a lot and we almost always despair and hire someone else with experience and a degree in English, Music, or uhm nothing at all. This constant business weasel whining needs to always be post-fixed with "at the current wage". Yeah, you can't hire, boo fucking hoo, PAY MORE DUMBASS. Problem solved. If you're business requires a razor thin.01% margin and the only way you can scrape by is to lobby your ex-frat-buddies in congress to give you more H1Bs then GO THE FUCK OUT OF BUSINESS. You don't deserve to have a business. I love how the media always turns to the lecture about globalism. Well, if globalism is the cause then fuck that, too. This idea "oh oh, you are so naive, we can't turn back globalism." is total and complete bullshit. We sure as fuck can turn it around. Cruise missile a couple of container ships from China and see how well globalism works after that. More realistically, just don't allow subsidized dumping of foreign goods, don't allow labor arbitrages to 3rd world countries, and cut off the H1B program, and globalists would see pretty quick that it's NOT a forgone conclusion.
Oh yeah, and didn't they have some extreme feminist CEO for a while that censored free-speech in order to re-educate us backwards white males on what total fucking misogynists we all are? Gee, yeah, sounds uhhh, great. I'll head right over.
So true, brother. It looks like script kiddie central to me, but maybe I've just landed on the wrong parts. However, I have to say that your experience with Reddit mirrors mine. I'm just like "WTF is even good about this?". However, I'm absolutely positive I'm an outlier because I didn't get Facebook or Twitter, either. However, at least I can kinda see how someone with a different personality (more social) could get addicted to Facebook. I mean, the features are there, at least. However, Reddit just seems like a crappy forum that doesn't even measure up to a freakin' Php-nuke or vBulletin site. Anyhow, I guess I'll go back to coding. This is the longest bit of non-code I've written in a week or so. Thus, I guess not spending all day logged into forums and wasting time like my co-workers, I'm no worse for the wear.
As long as it's not another Raspberry Pi in a retro case. If I wanted to run an emulator I'll download one for free and run it on my PC. Retro projects done right can be a source of joy and wonder. However, so many of them seem to want the cache' of retro's feel without being more than a skin-deep plastic case. FPGAs are welcome, though, as long as they keep some backwards compatibility. Anyone who thinks that is "emulation" needs to study how FPGAs work (ie.. by simulating the original components). Most of the really incredible retro projects on the scene today are full hardware reproductions or use FPGAs. My personal favorite is the Vampire Amiga accelerators which feature a blazing fast Motorola 68000 (the Apollo 080' core) implementation.
I don't care for Trump, but I'm 100% in favor of tariffs on China. Hell, I'm in favor of cruise-missile intercepting container ships from China. So, 25% tariffs seem tame. We should have cut them off a long time ago. Before you ask, yes I'm heartless enough to ask the poor to pay a bit more for those cheap (but toxic) flip-flops and Christmas lights at Wal-Mart. I'm weighing "access to cheap crappy garbage products" vs "having a job", and yes, the latter wins out.
Funny facts about this thread. It's been hidden by admins, and the parent has been moderated a zillion times. At the moment it's a troll but still +1, lol. Just goes to show you that the SystemD fiasco is still a huge force of drag on Linux. Besides being convincingly garbage software over these last few years, it's also caused a huge rift in whatever "communities" existed. I seriously still hear a lot of hate-speech (ha! I finally got to use that phrase) about it every time there are more than three geeks in a room. Go to conventions or bigger meetings and there are 2-3 groups standing around shit talking LP or SystemD. I support Unix environments (mostly commercial ones, but Linux and BSD ones, too) every day and we have a few thousand customers spread across the world, and I gotta say: tons of them hate SystemD and have been pretty pissed at Red Hat for that and more practical reasons (like their shitty license/subscription terms). I see lots of SMBs jumping ship to BSD, some to Devuan, quite a few to Windows (ugh). I see bigger companies just outsourcing 100% of IT and those management-company faggots often shitcan Linux for Windows or "appliances".
Could be he's referring to history. Ie.. what's already happened in Zimbabwe after Mugabe "expropriated" land from white farmers. Sure, you can argue the white guys are farming on "ill gotten land" but ultimately it's mostly old folks and kids who suffer when food production crashes. That and are you prepared to adjudicate every situation? I mean what if the evil white farmer just inherited it from a guy who bought the land legally from a black man (which definitely happened often) ? What if the person *was* black but didn't appear black enough (ie.. Colorism which is common in Africa)? Is that cool, too? I mean do you just wave your hand at the fatal outcome of this breakdown of law?
They are killing white farmers in South Africa. So, if those records include race and address, it might be fatal. The whites are moving to Australia to get away from the violence. Data leaks have consequences.
Good point, but that still doesn't allow for one to physically sell or trade them at a game shop. It's still just an ephemeral download tied to a corporate account controlled by a faceless megacorp that can (and will) shut it down at some point in order to motivate you to RE-BUY all the games you already owned as some "classic pack" or "retro download" on their *new* platform.
Aww, how cute, you almost wrote a complete sentence, little millennial dumbass. Almost. You forgot to punctuate, but we'll just pretend you did it, snowflake. Isn't that how the world is supposed to work for your generation?
Fuck downloaded unit-locked games. FUUUUUUUCKK them. I want to be able to resell, trade, and *gasp* physically OWN the damn thing. There are tons of older games on older platforms I haven't played. I have ZERO motivation to get on board with the ephermeral downloaded game bullshit. For my purposes as a collector, consoles that use media are superior to ones that don't. I also don't like this dick move to kill the secondary market, either. There are still lots of used game shops were I live.
Hundreds-of-Distros-hell seems especially egregious when you consider somehow the (3) BSD distros have clear design differences, but don't fragment to hell every time someone wants a different DE or window manager. It's one of many traits that makes Linux appear clueless when it's actually compared against it's betters.
SystemD, DBUS, PulseAudio, GNOME3, Wayland. Fedora, these things hang around your neck like a dead albatross. "Loaded with shit." is a good description of Fedora. Also, let's not forget that the Fedora faggots are the ones who started a lot of that shit. They were jumping up and down wanting systemd etc.. Now they are all excited about Wayland. Fuck that. All it does is take a bunch of useful features (XDMCP *is* fucking useful despite it being too technical for Fedora weenies to comprehend). Wayland takes away great features and then lectures users not to use such "hard" software to maintain. Funny, the people from my own generation seemed to maintain it just fucking fine. Just like init and all the rest of the software that Fedora has poo-poo'd. Now people think the shit-state that Linux is in is *normal*. Well, yes, it has always sucked a bit, but not nearly as much as it blows ass now. Anyhow, those who give a shit are long gone to FreeBSD or other greener pastures, myself included. Seeing shit like this article is just another sad reminder of how the Fedora-minded children of Lennart ruined Linux.
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Hehe, "Some will be lost in the sands of time." Let's see.... how many ebook readers customers primarily read non-DRM'd content from places like Project Gutenberg. Oh yeah, basically none as all the e-book providers DRM-by-default. Thus, you are full of shit. Personally, I've already lost more ebooks to DRM than any other reason. When Sony ditched their e-readers they didn't port their DRM scheme to Kobo. That's just one of dozens of examples. The books I have form the 1800's are ones that folks wanted to save and thought were worth more than the pulp-fiction of their day. At least the winnowing process there is pretty obviously based on reader-choice, and not some corporate asshole deciding I haven't bought the book enough times in enough formats. You seem to think format-shifting is just bullshit or doesn't occur. Did you just start collecting e-books yesterday or something. Bro, do you even read?
The rich aren't building shit, the are leeches, now. Guillotines worked pretty fucking well for the French. Leave the weasels in place and all they will do is put further laws and regulations in to "save their place" in society - their place as worthless leeches. The fact that they "finance" things is a function of them having all the fucking resources in the first place, not because they are such nice rentiers and overlords.
Despite a fancy phrase (survivorship bias) everything you said is still bullshit hand-waving and everything he said still appears true & valid. You can't 'explain away' or handwave the FACT that books will outlast all the format-shifting. The fact that some things can be emulated doesn't mean they will be or that it will be done well. It also utterly fails to address the role of DRM. Nah, anyway, you're just wrong and trying to pimp some weak points in the face of a superior line of reasoning. Oh and just like homeboy, I have *many* books from the 1800's and turn of the century. They are in fine shape and perfectly readable. So.... bullshit flag thrown.
When we all have jobs that are as bad or worse. Everybody is getting squeezed. Learn to love it or start building guillotines. Those are pretty much the options.
Gotta agree. Universities are not the answer, though. They are too far divorced from the work-environ. I interview new grads a lot and we almost always despair and hire someone else with experience and a degree in English, Music, or uhm nothing at all. This constant business weasel whining needs to always be post-fixed with "at the current wage". Yeah, you can't hire, boo fucking hoo, PAY MORE DUMBASS. Problem solved. If you're business requires a razor thin .01% margin and the only way you can scrape by is to lobby your ex-frat-buddies in congress to give you more H1Bs then GO THE FUCK OUT OF BUSINESS. You don't deserve to have a business. I love how the media always turns to the lecture about globalism. Well, if globalism is the cause then fuck that, too. This idea "oh oh, you are so naive, we can't turn back globalism." is total and complete bullshit. We sure as fuck can turn it around. Cruise missile a couple of container ships from China and see how well globalism works after that. More realistically, just don't allow subsidized dumping of foreign goods, don't allow labor arbitrages to 3rd world countries, and cut off the H1B program, and globalists would see pretty quick that it's NOT a forgone conclusion.
Oh yeah, and didn't they have some extreme feminist CEO for a while that censored free-speech in order to re-educate us backwards white males on what total fucking misogynists we all are? Gee, yeah, sounds uhhh, great. I'll head right over.
So true, brother. It looks like script kiddie central to me, but maybe I've just landed on the wrong parts. However, I have to say that your experience with Reddit mirrors mine. I'm just like "WTF is even good about this?". However, I'm absolutely positive I'm an outlier because I didn't get Facebook or Twitter, either. However, at least I can kinda see how someone with a different personality (more social) could get addicted to Facebook. I mean, the features are there, at least. However, Reddit just seems like a crappy forum that doesn't even measure up to a freakin' Php-nuke or vBulletin site. Anyhow, I guess I'll go back to coding. This is the longest bit of non-code I've written in a week or so. Thus, I guess not spending all day logged into forums and wasting time like my co-workers, I'm no worse for the wear.
As long as it's not another Raspberry Pi in a retro case. If I wanted to run an emulator I'll download one for free and run it on my PC. Retro projects done right can be a source of joy and wonder. However, so many of them seem to want the cache' of retro's feel without being more than a skin-deep plastic case. FPGAs are welcome, though, as long as they keep some backwards compatibility. Anyone who thinks that is "emulation" needs to study how FPGAs work (ie.. by simulating the original components). Most of the really incredible retro projects on the scene today are full hardware reproductions or use FPGAs. My personal favorite is the Vampire Amiga accelerators which feature a blazing fast Motorola 68000 (the Apollo 080' core) implementation.
I don't care for Trump, but I'm 100% in favor of tariffs on China. Hell, I'm in favor of cruise-missile intercepting container ships from China. So, 25% tariffs seem tame. We should have cut them off a long time ago. Before you ask, yes I'm heartless enough to ask the poor to pay a bit more for those cheap (but toxic) flip-flops and Christmas lights at Wal-Mart. I'm weighing "access to cheap crappy garbage products" vs "having a job", and yes, the latter wins out.
LOL! So true!
Funny facts about this thread. It's been hidden by admins, and the parent has been moderated a zillion times. At the moment it's a troll but still +1, lol. Just goes to show you that the SystemD fiasco is still a huge force of drag on Linux. Besides being convincingly garbage software over these last few years, it's also caused a huge rift in whatever "communities" existed. I seriously still hear a lot of hate-speech (ha! I finally got to use that phrase) about it every time there are more than three geeks in a room. Go to conventions or bigger meetings and there are 2-3 groups standing around shit talking LP or SystemD. I support Unix environments (mostly commercial ones, but Linux and BSD ones, too) every day and we have a few thousand customers spread across the world, and I gotta say: tons of them hate SystemD and have been pretty pissed at Red Hat for that and more practical reasons (like their shitty license/subscription terms). I see lots of SMBs jumping ship to BSD, some to Devuan, quite a few to Windows (ugh). I see bigger companies just outsourcing 100% of IT and those management-company faggots often shitcan Linux for Windows or "appliances".
Well put. Also, these turds often start in Fedora. The are the turd-fairy version of the canary in the coal mine.
High fucking five, brother. The only Linux distro besides Slackware that's still trill to the Unix vibe. Duvuan. Good job fellas.
Could be he's referring to history. Ie.. what's already happened in Zimbabwe after Mugabe "expropriated" land from white farmers. Sure, you can argue the white guys are farming on "ill gotten land" but ultimately it's mostly old folks and kids who suffer when food production crashes. That and are you prepared to adjudicate every situation? I mean what if the evil white farmer just inherited it from a guy who bought the land legally from a black man (which definitely happened often) ? What if the person *was* black but didn't appear black enough (ie.. Colorism which is common in Africa)? Is that cool, too? I mean do you just wave your hand at the fatal outcome of this breakdown of law?
South Africa is also the rape capital of the world. No stats on who is raping who or why, though.
They are killing white farmers in South Africa. So, if those records include race and address, it might be fatal. The whites are moving to Australia to get away from the violence. Data leaks have consequences.
How the fuck can you be sure? Plenty of the folks who worked at NASA of the 1960's are still around, FYI, coward.
In the 1960's, by the way. Fact. Choke on it, China.
Services are lame. Sell cool hardware or die, Sony. Be who you are.
Good point, but that still doesn't allow for one to physically sell or trade them at a game shop. It's still just an ephemeral download tied to a corporate account controlled by a faceless megacorp that can (and will) shut it down at some point in order to motivate you to RE-BUY all the games you already owned as some "classic pack" or "retro download" on their *new* platform.
Aww, how cute, you almost wrote a complete sentence, little millennial dumbass. Almost. You forgot to punctuate, but we'll just pretend you did it, snowflake. Isn't that how the world is supposed to work for your generation?
Fuck downloaded unit-locked games. FUUUUUUUCKK them. I want to be able to resell, trade, and *gasp* physically OWN the damn thing. There are tons of older games on older platforms I haven't played. I have ZERO motivation to get on board with the ephermeral downloaded game bullshit. For my purposes as a collector, consoles that use media are superior to ones that don't. I also don't like this dick move to kill the secondary market, either. There are still lots of used game shops were I live.
Hundreds-of-Distros-hell seems especially egregious when you consider somehow the (3) BSD distros have clear design differences, but don't fragment to hell every time someone wants a different DE or window manager. It's one of many traits that makes Linux appear clueless when it's actually compared against it's betters.
SystemD, DBUS, PulseAudio, GNOME3, Wayland. Fedora, these things hang around your neck like a dead albatross. "Loaded with shit." is a good description of Fedora. Also, let's not forget that the Fedora faggots are the ones who started a lot of that shit. They were jumping up and down wanting systemd etc.. Now they are all excited about Wayland. Fuck that. All it does is take a bunch of useful features (XDMCP *is* fucking useful despite it being too technical for Fedora weenies to comprehend). Wayland takes away great features and then lectures users not to use such "hard" software to maintain. Funny, the people from my own generation seemed to maintain it just fucking fine. Just like init and all the rest of the software that Fedora has poo-poo'd. Now people think the shit-state that Linux is in is *normal*. Well, yes, it has always sucked a bit, but not nearly as much as it blows ass now. Anyhow, those who give a shit are long gone to FreeBSD or other greener pastures, myself included. Seeing shit like this article is just another sad reminder of how the Fedora-minded children of Lennart ruined Linux.