This shit is what I have come to expect from the Obama administration. Grandstanding on irrelevant issues to gain credit, and fucking up a lot of minor ones due to incompetence. Glad that fucker and all his incompetent staff are out.
One thing that bothers me about the press coverage of this is that there's no discussion about why there was a call to stop using LiMux. I would like to know why - was it certain apps that underperformed? Certain features that didn't exist? What? Discussing this without describing actual details is worse than meaningless. People can suggest all kinds of things, but until anyone actually knows what the issues were, it's a moot point.
All I can say is: Thank goodness and it's way about time that now in 2017 this might get done.
I see ppl complaining about collateral damage, e.g. legit uses for spoofing but I say screw it. It's not worth it. If you need those features or whatever find another way to do it. Spoofing needs to be stopped completely once and for all.
I would also like to see more actual enforcement against spammers. Would be great to read about them being locked up which is where they belong.
Unfortunately for me FF is still a bit laggy, but it is still the best browser overall. Vivaldi is the next best and is definitely snappier that FF especially with a resource-intensive site like Twitter. Vivaldi seems a lot faster for sites with video. I generally use both. I've used Konqueror but yes it looks like there's basically not much going on with it and it doesn't even have a lot of basic options one expects in a browser. Opera is ok but I had it blow up on me not long ago. I think Vivaldi is definitely edging out Opera.
What about the reaction between urine and the newer sterilization agents that are being used - I think they are now oxygen-based? Lately most pools and spas I've been seem to have shifted away from chlorine.
..it's 5 hundredths of a percent of the water volume. And since urine is 95% water, you're talking about less than 4 liters out of nearly a million liters of water. It wouldn't surprise me if the mass of dead skin or even hair was greater than non-aqueous urine components.
Some type of in-pool heat-sensing technology not unlike airport scanners that can detect when people are releasing urine. The system can have body-tracking technology so that it can identify the actual people as they move around, and notify staff to take appropriate action.
It's a sad commentary about the state of affairs on this world that access to the original article, based on research on paid for with public money, is no free. It's truly appalling.
Did one explode in your pocket? In your house? Anywhere? Did you *own* one even? No???
Then what's your frikkin' gripe??
First of all the batteries with issues weren't make by Samsung, second only an extremely, extremely small number of them had any issues. Third, I give the company a lot of credit for attempting to push the envelope as close to margins as possible with their designs - that's something to be applauded, not derided.
I'm sick of these idiotic, griping posts bashing the company by ppl with apparently nothing better to do in their lives.
People usually say "I took an aspirin" and what they mean 99.9% of the time was that they took acetylsalisilic acid not Asprin . Most reasonable people accept that as valid and accept the usage of the term aspirin to mean acetysalicilic acid. I think people who consider the 99.9% of people who do that as wrong are themselves wrong. I also think it would be harmful of Linux if people nit-picked at them and told them that what they were using wasn't Linux. People have more important things to be concerned with in life. I'm glad when people use Linux or want to share knowlege about it or even just discuss it. I'm not going to belabor the issue with every single one of them and think that doing so would be wrong except in very specific situations such as conversations in this thread about defining an operating system or its components.
What is referred to today as "Linux" is an operating system that has a lot more components than just a kernel. It handles system initialization/state management, hardware resources and events, optional graphical management, etc. When someone says "I installed Linux" or "I use Linux" they mean an operating system, not a kernel. While there are variations among various Linux operating systems, they are still fundamentally similar in many ways and are different than Android in many ways.
Am in a similar boat. Linux is my desktop. No looking back. I use Wine for quite a number of apps that I need, and it does take some wrangling occasionally, but it's no comparison to Windows. I have a dual boot option for when I something such as to edit an image in Photoshop.
I thought Android is *not* Linux? At least that's what one of my Android text books says. It uses the Linux kernel, but is not the same operating system that is commonly referred to as "Linux" i.e. GNU-Linux. Android has major differences with Linux. This is not a value judgement but just an observation/fact.
It looks like there are a lot of potential reasons why PowerPoint docs can be incompatible between platforms. I just found this document which explains why. According to the article not all of the reasons are the fault of Microsoft, but simply underlying issues related to the different platforms.
[I know I will get killed on here for being an MS shill but I'm not. Just trying to have a realistic dicussion about the relative merits of different types of professional desktop software in real-world deployments.]
As someone who has used Linux as their main operating system for many, many years and who has built Linux systems for many others (non-Linux users) I can only say that you're wrong. Accept that in many if not most cases proprietary software like Microsoft Office is simply better than free alternatives because the company has vastly more resources to dedicate towards its development and also more resources to ensure that it is stable. The idea of the free software model is some magical formula that is automatically better than everything - that idea breaks down very quickly in the desktop application world. The fact is it is not the best model in some cases. I'm don't necesarily like this fact but it is a reality that system integrators have to accept if they are going to provide the best solutions to their customers, and not simply force their dogma onto them at the expense of usability, functionality, and compatibility.
Will the people responsible for providng the desktop systems to end users allow them to run things like Crossover Office and Wine, or are they OSS fanatics that force the users to use crappy software even when better albeit non-free alternatives exist? I suspect the latter is the real issue, not the fact that the systems are running Linux.
Another browser I'm hoping to see improve is Konqueror. It looks like it has the potential to be really great but it looks like not a lot of development is being invested in it yet. Still if it would improve it would really round out the KDE applications suite.
What about proper support for Linux distributions with long-term support, where the tools available on the distro are often frozen, and where newer Rust features might not be available?
For a really "L" TS distro like Debian it shouldn't be an issue because the vast majority of deployments are server instances, not desktops. For less "L" TS distros like Ubuntu, they are not so old (e.g. the current 16.04 LTS Ubuntu is much newer than Debian Jessie), and there is always the possibility to just add a custom archive to deal with it. In fact if you install Opera or Vivaldi from the official.deb's they distrubute, that's exactly what they do: They set up their own PPA.
Reading the summary and I'm like "What??" Firefox is the best browser by far. More customizable, better looking, better features. There's no comparison with any other browsers. Chrome's extensions suck. Opera and Vivaldi are ok but somewhat rough on the edges and also their extensions suck. You can use Chrome extensions (which suck anyhow) with Opera and Vivalidi but it's a cludge and they might not work well and are not stable.
As for mobile, it's basically the same thing although Firefox stands out even farther than any other browser, except perhaps Dolphin which is not nearly as trustworthy an organization as Mozilla. One thing that really sickens me about mobile Chrome is the baked-in Big Search search engines and inability to add DuckDuckGo. That alone was enough for me to immediately abandon using it and to not take it seriously as a browser. Google is not nearly as trustworthy/honest as Mozilla.
Yes Chrome's performance can be better but when you start using a lot of extensions and put it under resource load it is just as unstable/crappy as anything else. No browser is absolutely perfect.
Yes Firefox seems to have gone through a period of performance issues when under resource load (yes I often have 100+ tabs open) but seems to be improving as of the very latest releases.
I don't know what the summary is about but it really doesn't seem objective. Firefox is clearly the best browser.
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Link to the data???
How has it been exposed if I can't download it?
This shit is what I have come to expect from the Obama administration. Grandstanding on irrelevant issues to gain credit, and fucking up a lot of minor ones due to incompetence. Glad that fucker and all his incompetent staff are out.
One thing that bothers me about the press coverage of this is that there's no discussion about why there was a call to stop using LiMux. I would like to know why - was it certain apps that underperformed? Certain features that didn't exist? What? Discussing this without describing actual details is worse than meaningless. People can suggest all kinds of things, but until anyone actually knows what the issues were, it's a moot point.
All I can say is: Thank goodness and it's way about time that now in 2017 this might get done.
I see ppl complaining about collateral damage, e.g. legit uses for spoofing but I say screw it. It's not worth it. If you need those features or whatever find another way to do it. Spoofing needs to be stopped completely once and for all.
I would also like to see more actual enforcement against spammers. Would be great to read about them being locked up which is where they belong.
Unfortunately for me FF is still a bit laggy, but it is still the best browser overall. Vivaldi is the next best and is definitely snappier that FF especially with a resource-intensive site like Twitter. Vivaldi seems a lot faster for sites with video. I generally use both. I've used Konqueror but yes it looks like there's basically not much going on with it and it doesn't even have a lot of basic options one expects in a browser. Opera is ok but I had it blow up on me not long ago. I think Vivaldi is definitely edging out Opera.
Very illuminating!
What about the reaction between urine and the newer sterilization agents that are being used - I think they are now oxygen-based? Lately most pools and spas I've been seem to have shifted away from chlorine.
..it's 5 hundredths of a percent of the water volume. And since urine is 95% water, you're talking about less than 4 liters out of nearly a million liters of water. It wouldn't surprise me if the mass of dead skin or even hair was greater than non-aqueous urine components.
sounds like a cool name for a band
I don't know about that. I know that the level for olfactory detection of chlorine gas is around 6 ppm.
Actually what is the chemistry involved? Does the chlorine bond with the ammonium in urine to form a salt or something?
Some type of in-pool heat-sensing technology not unlike airport scanners that can detect when people are releasing urine. The system can have body-tracking technology so that it can identify the actual people as they move around, and notify staff to take appropriate action.
It's a sad commentary about the state of affairs on this world that access to the original article, based on research on paid for with public money, is no free. It's truly appalling.
Did one explode in your pocket? In your house? Anywhere? Did you *own* one even? No???
Then what's your frikkin' gripe??
First of all the batteries with issues weren't make by Samsung, second only an extremely, extremely small number of them had any issues. Third, I give the company a lot of credit for attempting to push the envelope as close to margins as possible with their designs - that's something to be applauded, not derided.
I'm sick of these idiotic, griping posts bashing the company by ppl with apparently nothing better to do in their lives.
Frak yes! On 300 mAh less battery and will probably be a lot cheaper. Want one!
People usually say "I took an aspirin" and what they mean 99.9% of the time was that they took acetylsalisilic acid not Asprin . Most reasonable people accept that as valid and accept the usage of the term aspirin to mean acetysalicilic acid. I think people who consider the 99.9% of people who do that as wrong are themselves wrong. I also think it would be harmful of Linux if people nit-picked at them and told them that what they were using wasn't Linux. People have more important things to be concerned with in life. I'm glad when people use Linux or want to share knowlege about it or even just discuss it. I'm not going to belabor the issue with every single one of them and think that doing so would be wrong except in very specific situations such as conversations in this thread about defining an operating system or its components.
What is referred to today as "Linux" is an operating system that has a lot more components than just a kernel. It handles system initialization/state management, hardware resources and events, optional graphical management, etc. When someone says "I installed Linux" or "I use Linux" they mean an operating system, not a kernel. While there are variations among various Linux operating systems, they are still fundamentally similar in many ways and are different than Android in many ways.
Am in a similar boat. Linux is my desktop. No looking back. I use Wine for quite a number of apps that I need, and it does take some wrangling occasionally, but it's no comparison to Windows. I have a dual boot option for when I something such as to edit an image in Photoshop.
Just wanted to add that maybe an analogue to this is how there can be a version of Debian that uses a BSD kernel but it's not actually BSD.
I thought Android is *not* Linux? At least that's what one of my Android text books says. It uses the Linux kernel, but is not the same operating system that is commonly referred to as "Linux" i.e. GNU-Linux. Android has major differences with Linux. This is not a value judgement but just an observation/fact.
It looks like there are a lot of potential reasons why PowerPoint docs can be incompatible between platforms. I just found this document which explains why. According to the article not all of the reasons are the fault of Microsoft, but simply underlying issues related to the different platforms.
[I know I will get killed on here for being an MS shill but I'm not. Just trying to have a realistic dicussion about the relative merits of different types of professional desktop software in real-world deployments.]
As someone who has used Linux as their main operating system for many, many years and who has built Linux systems for many others (non-Linux users) I can only say that you're wrong. Accept that in many if not most cases proprietary software like Microsoft Office is simply better than free alternatives because the company has vastly more resources to dedicate towards its development and also more resources to ensure that it is stable. The idea of the free software model is some magical formula that is automatically better than everything - that idea breaks down very quickly in the desktop application world. The fact is it is not the best model in some cases. I'm don't necesarily like this fact but it is a reality that system integrators have to accept if they are going to provide the best solutions to their customers, and not simply force their dogma onto them at the expense of usability, functionality, and compatibility.
Will the people responsible for providng the desktop systems to end users allow them to run things like Crossover Office and Wine, or are they OSS fanatics that force the users to use crappy software even when better albeit non-free alternatives exist? I suspect the latter is the real issue, not the fact that the systems are running Linux.
Another browser I'm hoping to see improve is Konqueror. It looks like it has the potential to be really great but it looks like not a lot of development is being invested in it yet. Still if it would improve it would really round out the KDE applications suite.
What about proper support for Linux distributions with long-term support, where the tools available on the distro are often frozen, and where newer Rust features might not be available?
For a really "L" TS distro like Debian it shouldn't be an issue because the vast majority of deployments are server instances, not desktops. For less "L" TS distros like Ubuntu, they are not so old (e.g. the current 16.04 LTS Ubuntu is much newer than Debian Jessie), and there is always the possibility to just add a custom archive to deal with it. In fact if you install Opera or Vivaldi from the official .deb's they distrubute, that's exactly what they do: They set up their own PPA.
Reading the summary and I'm like "What??" Firefox is the best browser by far. More customizable, better looking, better features. There's no comparison with any other browsers. Chrome's extensions suck. Opera and Vivaldi are ok but somewhat rough on the edges and also their extensions suck. You can use Chrome extensions (which suck anyhow) with Opera and Vivalidi but it's a cludge and they might not work well and are not stable.
As for mobile, it's basically the same thing although Firefox stands out even farther than any other browser, except perhaps Dolphin which is not nearly as trustworthy an organization as Mozilla. One thing that really sickens me about mobile Chrome is the baked-in Big Search search engines and inability to add DuckDuckGo. That alone was enough for me to immediately abandon using it and to not take it seriously as a browser. Google is not nearly as trustworthy/honest as Mozilla.
Yes Chrome's performance can be better but when you start using a lot of extensions and put it under resource load it is just as unstable/crappy as anything else. No browser is absolutely perfect.
Yes Firefox seems to have gone through a period of performance issues when under resource load (yes I often have 100+ tabs open) but seems to be improving as of the very latest releases.
I don't know what the summary is about but it really doesn't seem objective. Firefox is clearly the best browser.
Whoever gave the contract to the maker of the contactless card reader which only has a Java driver is an idiot and should be fired.