Open system considerations aside, most of us just want to use our computers to do things. Anybody gaming in Linux right now is already dealing with this, but with extra manual steps involved, and the world hasn't ended.
Browsing the web is good enough for the vast majority of users. Many apps that used to be windows or Mac only work on the browser now. If you can read a thumb drive, download pictures and video off a phone, and use the webcam with Facebook you're up to about 99%.
You'd be surprised. A stable ABI and licensing that permits distros to ship closed driver binaries would go a long way to solving the few lingering hardware issues.
Can't you guys be truthful, for just a second, folks?
TODAY the bombers are not Christians
TODAY those who are killing people in Paris, in Belgium, in Madrid, in Mumbai, in London, in New York City, in San Bernardino, are not Christians !!
Yes, lets be truthful for a second, shall we? Islamism has taken root in the places that have been subject to a century of careless political and military meddling by the western world. We resettled millions of European Jews in the religious heart of the middle east after world war 2. We used central and east asia as pawns in our "fight against communism" more or less from the 1940's through the end of the 20th century. We have aided coups, dumped trillions of dollars into the coffers of despotic, tyrannical dictators and warlords in Africa, Asia and the Middle East in exchange for natural resources. We funded and armed maniacs on BOTH SIDES of a regional dispute in the Iran-Iraq war. Then we used some terrorist attacks to justify the full-scale invasion and occupation of two entire countries for over a decade, destroying most of those countries infrastructure and politically destabilizing them in the process.
Then we sit back from the comfort of our countries where the "poor" have to settle for first-class emergency room care, last-generation iPhones and positively luxurious (by contrast) public transit systems, and wonder, "Why are these savages attacking US? We've tried so hard to help them! their IDEOLOGY must be incompatible with ours!"
The real question is not "when will we get the courage to deal with the reality of the Muslim threat" but rather, "what else can we possibly do to set these people further back on the cultural and economic scale?" and the answer is, nothing we haven't already, and now the proverbial chickens have come home to roost.
So when you want to talk about apologists, think about all the apologizing you're doing for the Bushes, Blair, Reagan, and all the other American and European war criminals that used their horseshit embrace of "Christian Values" to dupe voters into war profiteering and corporatist resource extraction and the expense of three generations of Asians, Africans, and Middle Easterners.
Most (all) grade school, kindergarten, high school teachers, and even a good number of college professors do not make $100,000 a year.
Aren't school budgets usually based on property taxes? I would assume that if rent is so high, property value is equally high, meaning school revenues should be similarly high. Isn't the solution to "teachers don't make enough money to live here" to pay teachers more?
Wealth never did enter into the equation, and neither did being white. In fact, after Independence was declared (1776) and both before and after the constitution was even a thing, (1788) blacks did actually have the right to vote in 7 of the original 13 states
It seems you counter your own argument. Being white had something to do with it in 6/13 of the states. Also I seem to recall that while slaves/blacks were allowed to vote, that their vote counted as 3/5ths of a white person, and that they often didn't actually cast their own votes as it was done by their master "on their behalf"... Meaning if you were wealthy enough to own multiple slaves you got several votes.
At least you didn't bother to try and fail at the "male" part. Thanks for that.
This is no different from how Nvidia drivers are distributed, and Nvidia's drivers are completely proprietary.
Almost completely incorrect.
nvidia proprietary drivers (at least in Ubuntu) come as a DKMS package. The GPL source portion which interacts with kernel ABI is compiled at installation time, or on the installation of a new kernel. This in turn calls on the BLOB which is plainly not at all open source. This has been a sticking point for some time, as it is clearly nvidia getting around the rules in a sneaky way. Linus is not a fan.
Relevant to the current situation, because in 15.10, ZFS is available as a DKMS package. it compiles on the user system at installation and that is a difference from distributing a precompiiled binary that is dynamically linked against the specific binary signature of the distributed kernel binaries.
In such a case it might be easier to use one of the many available plugins to disable flash during everyday use and flip it on when needed. plus you don't have to install a separate browser for one plugin.
So is there a point to using OpenBSD if you install flash?
Is there a point to using any operating system, or any software at all, that lacks features you need? Flash is still sadly a major component of the web. Certainly not as major, and its importance is definitely fading, but it is still essential for using many sites at full-feature. less than 5 years ago flash-driven uploaders were all the rage. A lot of video sites have not transitioned to HTML5 video. Many games still require flash, and this "workaday" setup seems very games-centric. (government work?)
I'm curious and open to the fact that there is almost certainly something I haven't considered
A few reasons I can think of: automatic ZFS on root, ports system, and stability. Also, it's arguable (I lack any technical grounds for this statement) that BSD does a better job of "compartmentalizing" processes than Linux, so if you have to run Flash there might be no better way to do so.
In the curriculum at my university we learned at least one new language per semester. Assembler was required. Java was required. Python was required. Haskell was required. At different stages we learned about stack management, pointer allocation, memory management, garbage collection algorithms, and so on.
Point is, it's not about what language you use. Learn the techniques and the rest will follow. Learn to learn new languages, you will need them. Learn how the high level code you write is handled at the bare metal. CS is not just about producing programmers... Anybody with time on their hands and a computer can learn to code. CS is about furthering the art and science of computing.
Well the contracts remain month to month after their term, unless you upgrade your phone or change your plan in some way. Those of us who are fighting to keep the unlimited plan have to buy retail price phones to upgrade.
So short answer, yes, they kinda were that stupid.
Well, that's exactly what they're doing. The problem is they're doing it to those of us users who already have unlimited plans which they don't sell anymore, but are paying month to month and buying phones elsewhere to keep our contracts from being re-written.
They won't be throttling the new "unlimited" customers because there aren't any.
Much as I hate to shill for Apple, this is the correct answer. iPads do silent updates and don't complain much if they cannot. They have tremendous battery life and the simplest power connector ever. Works with all services, interface simplicity cannot be bested.
The smart tv solution would probably work too, but there's more room for problems to arise. Not sure how the costs break down but this would even work with used iPads if you need to keep costs down.
People voting with dollars is the reason we have regulatory capture in the first place.
I mean why have any government at all? People can hire their own security forces if they need police. The private fire brigade can run a credit check on you to see if you can pay the bill before they put out your burning home... If it spreads to the neighbors, that's just more clients for them! All roads, bridges, ports, rail and telecommunications infrastructure can be private and commerce will THRIVE.
I just had a brilliant idea for disrupting the regulated airlines via a fleet of drones. Who said the skies are friendly? I never voted with my dollars for the FAA and the NTSB.
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Open system considerations aside, most of us just want to use our computers to do things. Anybody gaming in Linux right now is already dealing with this, but with extra manual steps involved, and the world hasn't ended.
The same way the windows folks do it.
Browsing the web is good enough for the vast majority of users. Many apps that used to be windows or Mac only work on the browser now. If you can read a thumb drive, download pictures and video off a phone, and use the webcam with Facebook you're up to about 99%.
Ah yes the convenience of debian.
It's a natural side effect of herding cats.
You'd be surprised. A stable ABI and licensing that permits distros to ship closed driver binaries would go a long way to solving the few lingering hardware issues.
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't complain.
I've got two shitty, overpriced and under-performing services to choose from.
Consumer Choice!
Can't you guys be truthful, for just a second, folks?
TODAY the bombers are not Christians
TODAY those who are killing people in Paris, in Belgium, in Madrid, in Mumbai, in London, in New York City, in San Bernardino, are not Christians !!
Yes, lets be truthful for a second, shall we? Islamism has taken root in the places that have been subject to a century of careless political and military meddling by the western world. We resettled millions of European Jews in the religious heart of the middle east after world war 2. We used central and east asia as pawns in our "fight against communism" more or less from the 1940's through the end of the 20th century. We have aided coups, dumped trillions of dollars into the coffers of despotic, tyrannical dictators and warlords in Africa, Asia and the Middle East in exchange for natural resources. We funded and armed maniacs on BOTH SIDES of a regional dispute in the Iran-Iraq war. Then we used some terrorist attacks to justify the full-scale invasion and occupation of two entire countries for over a decade, destroying most of those countries infrastructure and politically destabilizing them in the process.
Then we sit back from the comfort of our countries where the "poor" have to settle for first-class emergency room care, last-generation iPhones and positively luxurious (by contrast) public transit systems, and wonder, "Why are these savages attacking US? We've tried so hard to help them! their IDEOLOGY must be incompatible with ours!"
The real question is not "when will we get the courage to deal with the reality of the Muslim threat" but rather, "what else can we possibly do to set these people further back on the cultural and economic scale?" and the answer is, nothing we haven't already, and now the proverbial chickens have come home to roost.
So when you want to talk about apologists, think about all the apologizing you're doing for the Bushes, Blair, Reagan, and all the other American and European war criminals that used their horseshit embrace of "Christian Values" to dupe voters into war profiteering and corporatist resource extraction and the expense of three generations of Asians, Africans, and Middle Easterners.
You'd have to be a real masochist today to chose a Linux desktop over an OSX desktop for a Unix development experience.
Never understood the OSX superiority complex. It's almost like you guys are overcompensating for something.
Most (all) grade school, kindergarten, high school teachers, and even a good number of college professors do not make $100,000 a year.
Aren't school budgets usually based on property taxes? I would assume that if rent is so high, property value is equally high, meaning school revenues should be similarly high. Isn't the solution to "teachers don't make enough money to live here" to pay teachers more?
Heinlein also mixed polygamy and women who were skilled with swords. You can get away with a lot in works of fiction.
Wealth never did enter into the equation, and neither did being white. In fact, after Independence was declared (1776) and both before and after the constitution was even a thing, (1788) blacks did actually have the right to vote in 7 of the original 13 states
It seems you counter your own argument. Being white had something to do with it in 6/13 of the states. Also I seem to recall that while slaves/blacks were allowed to vote, that their vote counted as 3/5ths of a white person, and that they often didn't actually cast their own votes as it was done by their master "on their behalf"... Meaning if you were wealthy enough to own multiple slaves you got several votes.
At least you didn't bother to try and fail at the "male" part. Thanks for that.
This is no different from how Nvidia drivers are distributed, and Nvidia's drivers are completely proprietary.
Almost completely incorrect.
nvidia proprietary drivers (at least in Ubuntu) come as a DKMS package. The GPL source portion which interacts with kernel ABI is compiled at installation time, or on the installation of a new kernel. This in turn calls on the BLOB which is plainly not at all open source. This has been a sticking point for some time, as it is clearly nvidia getting around the rules in a sneaky way. Linus is not a fan.
Relevant to the current situation, because in 15.10, ZFS is available as a DKMS package. it compiles on the user system at installation and that is a difference from distributing a precompiiled binary that is dynamically linked against the specific binary signature of the distributed kernel binaries.
Powdered creamer? And you call yourself a coffee drinker!
[Company] wants [government] to relax [regulation]
Yup. That's news.
In such a case it might be easier to use one of the many available plugins to disable flash during everyday use and flip it on when needed. plus you don't have to install a separate browser for one plugin.
So is there a point to using OpenBSD if you install flash?
Is there a point to using any operating system, or any software at all, that lacks features you need? Flash is still sadly a major component of the web. Certainly not as major, and its importance is definitely fading, but it is still essential for using many sites at full-feature. less than 5 years ago flash-driven uploaders were all the rage. A lot of video sites have not transitioned to HTML5 video. Many games still require flash, and this "workaday" setup seems very games-centric. (government work?)
I'm curious and open to the fact that there is almost certainly something I haven't considered
A few reasons I can think of: automatic ZFS on root, ports system, and stability. Also, it's arguable (I lack any technical grounds for this statement) that BSD does a better job of "compartmentalizing" processes than Linux, so if you have to run Flash there might be no better way to do so.
Point is, it's not about what language you use. Learn the techniques and the rest will follow. Learn to learn new languages, you will need them. Learn how the high level code you write is handled at the bare metal. CS is not just about producing programmers... Anybody with time on their hands and a computer can learn to code. CS is about furthering the art and science of computing.
So short answer, yes, they kinda were that stupid.
Well, that's exactly what they're doing. The problem is they're doing it to those of us users who already have unlimited plans which they don't sell anymore, but are paying month to month and buying phones elsewhere to keep our contracts from being re-written. They won't be throttling the new "unlimited" customers because there aren't any.
Much as I hate to shill for Apple, this is the correct answer. iPads do silent updates and don't complain much if they cannot. They have tremendous battery life and the simplest power connector ever. Works with all services, interface simplicity cannot be bested. The smart tv solution would probably work too, but there's more room for problems to arise. Not sure how the costs break down but this would even work with used iPads if you need to keep costs down.
Just from a compatibility standpoint... I know iPads can work with Skype, google hangouts, etc. is a samsung smart tv compatible with FaceTime?
As a scientist, you definitely want to be precise with your fractional bits.
I thought the commenter's clear meaning was, "allow us to use the hardware in the racks during the remaining lease time."
People voting with dollars is the reason we have regulatory capture in the first place. I mean why have any government at all? People can hire their own security forces if they need police. The private fire brigade can run a credit check on you to see if you can pay the bill before they put out your burning home... If it spreads to the neighbors, that's just more clients for them! All roads, bridges, ports, rail and telecommunications infrastructure can be private and commerce will THRIVE. I just had a brilliant idea for disrupting the regulated airlines via a fleet of drones. Who said the skies are friendly? I never voted with my dollars for the FAA and the NTSB.