Birds may or may not have evolved from dinosaurs, but that does not make them dinosaurs for any reasonable definition of bird or dinosaur. Perhaps you also think that whales are land mammals.
If there was not some significant event in the past there would be no reason for these small feathered derivatives to survive while the actual dinos died out. I get that it's fun for misinformed science teachers to throw in the erroneous "birds are dinosaurs" factoid along with "centrifugal force doesn't exist" and "glass is liquid" for wide-eyed students but let's leave it there. To state that a particular class of life has survived by pointing to a far-removed derivative is a cop out and adds nothing useful to discussions about extinction.
Point 1 has been raised in the above comments many times, and includes ads with any kind of pop-up, sound, video or other movement.
Point 2 is much more sinister, and includes ads that claim you have won a prize, have an issue detected with your computer, or fool you into thinking the ad is the Download link for the software you are trying to download.
Those ads will always be blocked, and are killing the digital media industry.
LibreOffice is fine for the vast majority of users for creating and editing its own documents.
But that is not the problem.
When Shirley at the front desk can use LibreOffice to open a Word or Powerpoint document sent by an MS Office user and not have it screw up the formatting, then it will be a viable replacement to MS Office. That day is still a long way off, since it still cannot open a very simple document (Word document with text and one image) without subtle format changes.
Here's my list of potential buyers, in rough order of preference:
CmdrTaco Crowd-funded non-profit entity Some unheard of benign tech group Another tech news company Some unheard of business acquisition group NewsCorp Microsoft Corporation
Unfortunately that same list is much less amusing when sorted on probability.
Died? Huh? That was the highpoint for commercial Linux. Commercial Linux in the 1980s was displacing other systems that had evolved in hardware monocultures because it handled the rapidly evolving workstation / server hardware. Your history is just backwards here.
Do you mean Unix? Linux 0.01 was released in 1991.
There was no ambiguous constellation. This was a cartoon character in a clear gesture of "fuck you", as clear as if had been written in several different languages.
There is no alternate interpretation there.
Now if you think posting devices with hostile messages around a metropolitan area is a good idea, then I have bridge you may be interested in...
And no, "because it's art" is not a reasonable explanation. Planting and detonating an actual bomb that killed a lot of people could also be called art by some sick nutter.
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If you don't want to get caught cheating, then don't fucking cheat.
These morons deserve to have their details posted.
or will these ones also commit suicide when they can't be written to anymore?
Not this again.
Shunning technological solutions to non-existent problems does not make one a luddite, especially when said solution creates major, real problems.
(I did giggle a little at your answer, and that was probably the intent, but I had to post the above in case you were serious.)
Okay, but it works reliably on my Fedora desktop and has for the past three years. My Mint desktop has been reliably suspending for the past year.
Please don't misunderstand me when I make the following comment in response to your post:
Fuck that.
What utter crap.
Birds may or may not have evolved from dinosaurs, but that does not make them dinosaurs for any reasonable definition of bird or dinosaur. Perhaps you also think that whales are land mammals.
If there was not some significant event in the past there would be no reason for these small feathered derivatives to survive while the actual dinos died out. I get that it's fun for misinformed science teachers to throw in the erroneous "birds are dinosaurs" factoid along with "centrifugal force doesn't exist" and "glass is liquid" for wide-eyed students but let's leave it there. To state that a particular class of life has survived by pointing to a far-removed derivative is a cop out and adds nothing useful to discussions about extinction.
1. Don't be obnoxious
2. Don't lie
Point 1 has been raised in the above comments many times, and includes ads with any kind of pop-up, sound, video or other movement.
Point 2 is much more sinister, and includes ads that claim you have won a prize, have an issue detected with your computer, or fool you into thinking the ad is the Download link for the software you are trying to download.
Those ads will always be blocked, and are killing the digital media industry.
LibreOffice is fine for the vast majority of users for creating and editing its own documents.
But that is not the problem.
When Shirley at the front desk can use LibreOffice to open a Word or Powerpoint document sent by an MS Office user and not have it screw up the formatting, then it will be a viable replacement to MS Office. That day is still a long way off, since it still cannot open a very simple document (Word document with text and one image) without subtle format changes.
Would that be AC or DC?
if you can still have a register that detects when such a device is plugged in, you could have the screen flash up with the message:
"You've been..."
I'm pretty sure that's what the AGPL is for.
or just buy what you want and install CM.
I disagree. A car with no visible signs of forced entry will sell better on the black market.
Well the latter three anyway...
Doesn't sound like it will scale very well, in any sustainable manner anyway.
... only in broken jurisdictions that recognize software patents.
Here's my list of potential buyers, in rough order of preference:
CmdrTaco
Crowd-funded non-profit entity
Some unheard of benign tech group
Another tech news company
Some unheard of business acquisition group
NewsCorp
Microsoft Corporation
Unfortunately that same list is much less amusing when sorted on probability.
Died? Huh? That was the highpoint for commercial Linux. Commercial Linux in the 1980s was displacing other systems that had evolved in hardware monocultures because it handled the rapidly evolving workstation / server hardware. Your history is just backwards here.
Do you mean Unix? Linux 0.01 was released in 1991.
Like a light switch?
Bullshit.
You're playing a persecution card that no longer exists, but is still happily cited when it's convenient to push feminist agendas.
XKCD is wrong.
+1 for mentioning over-compression, which should be punishable with stocks and public fruiting.
I love this guy. So, by your logic, if you can see it and it looks like a bomb, it couldn't possibly be a bomb.
Got it.
What do you want, a medal for demonstrating pathological immaturity?
There was no ambiguous constellation. This was a cartoon character in a clear gesture of "fuck you", as clear as if had been written in several different languages.
There is no alternate interpretation there.
Now if you think posting devices with hostile messages around a metropolitan area is a good idea, then I have bridge you may be interested in...
And no, "because it's art" is not a reasonable explanation. Planting and detonating an actual bomb that killed a lot of people could also be called art by some sick nutter.
...which are also glass tubes.