How long does it take to boil a eyeball? at what distance?
This is actually a genuine risk of this technology. A tightly focussed beam could come about by accident in a variety of circumstances due to the surroundings, and its not like the beam is visible. Presumably standing waves are also possible if there are reflective (metal) surfaces around.
I am not sure its true. Desktop sales may be dwindling, but that is what you expect when the useful life of a machine is extending from three to ten years*, and the market was already saturated. If you want a desktop, you probably already have one. Even in the third world. However, that might well be 20 billion desktops, and in ten years time, may well be 22 billion desktops.
A desktop is NOT a tablet. Just like an SUV is NOT a motorbike. They solve different problems.
And really, the problem is not KDE is different from Gnome, any more than there is a problem that Ford is not Nissan. There may be a problem that granny can't tell a Ford from a Nissan, but my 90 year old Mum refused to use a Windows machine. She wanted a Mac. My sister in law said "My computer is all messed up -can you fix it?" and I looked at it. It had installed Windows 10 while she was asleep, and was having a booting frenzy as it installed a million "updates". I said No. "I cant fix that. If you like, I can install Linux like I use". She said "I thought your machine was much more expensive than mine. I said "No, it was much cheaper". She agreed to have Linux on it, and has used it happily ever since. If she wants to print something, she emails it to me, like she always did. She has her own printer, but the ink dried up from lack of use in 2014.
*The last place I worked had quite a number of machines that were approaching their 11th birthday. We joked that they were now old enough for secondary school. I think the company gave then all 10/100 Ethernet cards as birthday presents.
When this last happened to me, I was using a distro I don't normally use, and cant remember what it was. I switched to it because Poettering.
The underlying cause was some kind of newly introduced security feature in CUPS that meant I did not have permission to change the print settings. I switched back to Ubuntu Mate without managing to resolve the issue.
The Wifi issue is more bizarre than I thought. I have a USB dongle. It works in one particular USB socket, but won't work in any other - not actually an upgrade issue directly.
If the manufacturers released the data needed to wrote open source drivers, the could be supported. If governments had balls (their own, and not other people's) then manufacturers who EOL support would receive an immediate bill for the replacement and disposal of all product still in use, or have to release tech docs for third party support to protect the environment. (With exemption for products where install base value is less than $1M at NEW price).
They have the tech docs, they have no reason to withhold them other than "demanding money with menaces" from their install base. This is a crime, and law enforcement should be involved in it.
I do not accept that the choice of desktop is an issue: you can buy a whole range of car models even from the same manufacturer.
The real problem is that each time you upgrade:
Wifi stops working
Printing stops working
The UI changes
The Icons all change
Poetering
If ALL of these were fixed, and the settings were all in one place called settings, and not in "Gnome tweeks", "software centre", "systems administration", "gay tweeking place", and "Other places carefully hidden so you won't find them" Linux would have 200% of the Windows market, However, I agree fixing the video drivers so they actually work might help too. I suspect gaming probably accounts for less than 0.5% of the Windows market. Most people use their phones or a console to game.
Two centuries ago that may have been true, but today people get spoiled by an amount inversely proportional to their own efforts and capabilities. You don't get any benefits and subisidies if you study well and work hard, but if you never finish school you get everything for free.
How did you get to Cloud-Cuckoo land? I can't find it on Google Maps. Are you using Bing?
No. You are completely wrong on this: crazy names are wonderful: just try Googling a version number! No chance.
but Google "Mangy Marmot" and there is only one beast in town with that name. And, in case you are in any doubt about it, Lounge Lizard come first, because "L" comes before "M" in my dictionary, and if it does not in yours, either you are using a Cyrillic Dictionary, or you need to get a new one.
As an example of how not to do it, call your web server "httpd" (OpenBSD, I am looking at you) how in $(DEITY)'s name are you expected to find help on specific configuration details?
Pretty sure the New Testament considered all girls marriageable "women" after puberty
On what basis? That might be true in hunter/gatherer societies, but is not generally the case in farming societies. I would expect there to be firm evidence about Roman views on the issue, and the area was, as we know, under Roman rule at the time. I was taught (by a Christian school) that "Virgin" in Latin of that era should be read as "teenager" in modern terminology.
I have no idea whether Mary was thirteen or nineteen at the time of her conception, or anywhere in between, and I seriously doubt anyone else does, or there would have been a song and dance about it for two thousand years.
One cannot expect to go back in time and hold people accountable for sexism during the 70s only a decade after the birth of feminism.
I understand that you are in America, but even so, Feminism was a big thing in the 1920's - Ie about 100 years ago. Here in the UK, the tradition _was_ that if someone got an under-age girl pregnant, the girl would go to a mother and baby home, and the boy/man would be "disappeared" - either leave town never to return, or be found face down in the river. It was still happening in the 1960's. This kind of died out with the pill.
Nobody is saying you won't be able to do that - what the FCC wants is for your ISP to handle your traffic the way they want - as in: [Al Capone accent] nice business you have there, shame if all your traffic was to get throttled.
Slashdot Mirror
So about the same as an old Sun server, then.
The Australian government is probably working on that as we speak.
Is it the EM radiation? Or is it the content of Twitter?
I doubt the average experiment can resolve the difference accurately, but I see evidence all around me of brains rotted by Twitter.
This is actually a genuine risk of this technology. A tightly focussed beam could come about by accident in a variety of circumstances due to the surroundings, and its not like the beam is visible. Presumably standing waves are also possible if there are reflective (metal) surfaces around.
Wear a lead bucket over my head and a lead apron while in flight. (Guaranteed 100 times more effective than tin-foil).
It is entirely feasible, that within a matter of a few short years, the entire Internet will become completely unusable.
Based on the current rate of progress, sometimes described as Less's Law, I would say it gets about 1/2 as useful every 18 months.
No, Wait...
Fake Stupidity may be harder to beat!
So, in response Canonical introduced "unusability" to the masses in the form of Unity and systemd. Great!
You clearly underestimate the attractiveness of MILFs.
I am not sure its true. Desktop sales may be dwindling, but that is what you expect when the useful life of a machine is extending from three to ten years*, and the market was already saturated. If you want a desktop, you probably already have one. Even in the third world. However, that might well be 20 billion desktops, and in ten years time, may well be 22 billion desktops.
A desktop is NOT a tablet. Just like an SUV is NOT a motorbike. They solve different problems.
And really, the problem is not KDE is different from Gnome, any more than there is a problem that Ford is not Nissan. There may be a problem that granny can't tell a Ford from a Nissan, but my 90 year old Mum refused to use a Windows machine. She wanted a Mac. My sister in law said "My computer is all messed up -can you fix it?" and I looked at it. It had installed Windows 10 while she was asleep, and was having a booting frenzy as it installed a million "updates". I said No. "I cant fix that. If you like, I can install Linux like I use". She said "I thought your machine was much more expensive than mine. I said "No, it was much cheaper". She agreed to have Linux on it, and has used it happily ever since. If she wants to print something, she emails it to me, like she always did. She has her own printer, but the ink dried up from lack of use in 2014.
*The last place I worked had quite a number of machines that were approaching their 11th birthday. We joked that they were now old enough for secondary school. I think the company gave then all 10/100 Ethernet cards as birthday presents.
The underlying cause was some kind of newly introduced security feature in CUPS that meant I did not have permission to change the print settings. I switched back to Ubuntu Mate without managing to resolve the issue.
The Wifi issue is more bizarre than I thought. I have a USB dongle. It works in one particular USB socket, but won't work in any other - not actually an upgrade issue directly.
If the manufacturers released the data needed to wrote open source drivers, the could be supported. If governments had balls (their own, and not other people's) then manufacturers who EOL support would receive an immediate bill for the replacement and disposal of all product still in use, or have to release tech docs for third party support to protect the environment. (With exemption for products where install base value is less than $1M at NEW price).
They have the tech docs, they have no reason to withhold them other than "demanding money with menaces" from their install base. This is a crime, and law enforcement should be involved in it.
The real problem is that each time you upgrade:
If ALL of these were fixed, and the settings were all in one place called settings, and not in "Gnome tweeks", "software centre", "systems administration", "gay tweeking place", and "Other places carefully hidden so you won't find them" Linux would have 200% of the Windows market, However, I agree fixing the video drivers so they actually work might help too. I suspect gaming probably accounts for less than 0.5% of the Windows market. Most people use their phones or a console to game.
As it is, I am moving to wvfm95 on NetBSD.
Have you ever watched day time TV?
How did you get to Cloud-Cuckoo land? I can't find it on Google Maps. Are you using Bing?
If you are selling life jackets: it pays to rock the boat.
but Google "Mangy Marmot" and there is only one beast in town with that name. And, in case you are in any doubt about it, Lounge Lizard come first, because "L" comes before "M" in my dictionary, and if it does not in yours, either you are using a Cyrillic Dictionary, or you need to get a new one.
As an example of how not to do it, call your web server "httpd" (OpenBSD, I am looking at you) how in $(DEITY)'s name are you expected to find help on specific configuration details?
Because the people selling certs need some leverage to sell their over priced products. That is what it is about. Nothing to do with security.
The whoosh is strong with this one!
User error: strike any user to continue!
With no added systemd
Please sir, can I change my date of birth and my mother's maiden name?
FTFY
On what basis? That might be true in hunter/gatherer societies, but is not generally the case in farming societies. I would expect there to be firm evidence about Roman views on the issue, and the area was, as we know, under Roman rule at the time. I was taught (by a Christian school) that "Virgin" in Latin of that era should be read as "teenager" in modern terminology.
I have no idea whether Mary was thirteen or nineteen at the time of her conception, or anywhere in between, and I seriously doubt anyone else does, or there would have been a song and dance about it for two thousand years.
I understand that you are in America, but even so, Feminism was a big thing in the 1920's - Ie about 100 years ago. Here in the UK, the tradition _was_ that if someone got an under-age girl pregnant, the girl would go to a mother and baby home, and the boy/man would be "disappeared" - either leave town never to return, or be found face down in the river. It was still happening in the 1960's. This kind of died out with the pill.
Nobody is saying you won't be able to do that - what the FCC wants is for your ISP to handle your traffic the way they want - as in: [Al Capone accent] nice business you have there, shame if all your traffic was to get throttled.