A good LTS Linux desktop is great for home use. No having to upgrade your computer every year. I've quite enjoyed my forays into Linuxdom.
Why would you have to upgrade your computer every year (assuming you are talking about Windows)? I upgrade every 5 years or so. Given my experience with Linux I'd say I'd be doing the same in that environment.
Hmm... no, the guy I worked actually did fire people. Apparently trumpsky has difficulty doing the firing. They said on the Apprentice they had to coach him on how to fire people.
Why all at once? That sounds like a mandated "get rid of x percent" and of course that's the people who aren't buddies with their manager. May well have nothing to do with how competent they are.
Yep. The absolute worst management I ever worked for used stack ranking. The guy who mandated it was a psychopath. He actually said he liked firing people. It ensures the worst possible behavior from your employees, because you know it's all about who can play favorites the best.
I've just never noticed in the middle of a space battle someone taking a long swig from a Coke and then talking about how amazing it is that Coke has been refreshing people since the late 19th century. Now again, I don't watch network TV so I wouldn't have seen it there, but I do watch shows on Netflix and I just haven't noticed it. The most I'll notice is when they zoom in on a car for about a second and you notice it's a Chevy or whatever, but that sure doesn't break the flow.
Same here. If someone points it out I'll notice it, but a guy in the show taking a swig from a coke can just doesn't have any impact on me.
I watched the new Star Trek pilot on CBS, first time I had watched network TV in a while, and talk about getting pulled out... felt like every 2 minutes they were cutting to a commercial. It really started to drive me crazy. I would much, much, MUCH rather have even the most blatant product placement than that.
Wow... the concept of a "compiler" that reveals bugs before runtime!!!! Amazing that no one ever thought of that before.
Sorry, I'm being horribly sarcastic because I'm sad to see people re-inventing the wheel. I use Typescript at work and it's sad to see it try to bolt a reasonable language on top of the smoking pile that is Javascript.
I used Thunderbird for a while on one computer. It was a disaster. It managed to make the simple act of configuring an email account incredibly difficult. It had some sort of broken "auto-detect" feature that took a while to try to figure out the settings for the server you had entered, and then when it failed, IT DIDN'T LET YOU ENTER THE CORRECT SETTINGS. I spent God knows how much time screwing around with, thinking there must be some way to get the settings in, because nobody would be that dumb.
Finally realized the only way to do it was to interrupt the auto-detect in middle, and then it left the UI in a state where it was possible to enter the correct settings.
I've used a ton of email clients, going back to Eudora, and Thunderbird was far and away the worst.
Yeah, it's only worked for 10 years. If I really wanted to be safe, I guess I could telnet to websites and just pick out what I wanted from the readable text.
The main reason I just switched to Chrome from Firefox is that FF recently did an update that broke 1Password. Not to mention Chrome generally is faster and smoother.
In some cases, even after careful consideration of all points of view, a group might find itself unable to reach consensus. The Chair may record a decision where there is dissent (i.e., there is at least one Formal Objection) so that the group may make progress (for example, to produce a deliverable in a timely manner). Dissenters cannot stop a group's work simply by saying that they cannot live with a decision. When the Chair believes that the Group has duly considered the legitimate concerns of dissenters as far as is possible and reasonable, the group should move on.
I assume this was considered to be the case. That there was dissent, not on technical grounds but on the fundamental basis that the DRM standard shouldn't exist at all. Which means that there wasn't going to be unanimous (or even close to unanimous) consensus.
The link that says that the W3C is endorsing a standard against the consensus of its members goes to an article that says
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry body that oversees development of HTML and related Web standards, has today published the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification as a Recommendation, marking its final blessing as an official Web standard. Final approval came after the W3C's members voted 58.4 percent to approve the spec, 30.8 percent to oppose
So if almost 60% approve, isn't that about as much consensus as you ever get on a standard?
Well, if people don't play party politics and oppose the trump agenda, for sure we will lose our personal freedom. Seems like a great time to get involved in politics. No can say right now "oh, there's no difference"... well, you can say that, but that's an "alternate fact".
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A good LTS Linux desktop is great for home use. No having to upgrade your computer every year. I've quite enjoyed my forays into Linuxdom.
Why would you have to upgrade your computer every year (assuming you are talking about Windows)? I upgrade every 5 years or so. Given my experience with Linux I'd say I'd be doing the same in that environment.
It makes as much sense as the way Chrome export works. Basically they both make it easy to import, hard to export.
I have. Which is why I'm not shocked by the concept that what trump does is different from what trump says.
Read this and be educated: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/26/...
Hmm... no, the guy I worked actually did fire people. Apparently trumpsky has difficulty doing the firing. They said on the Apprentice they had to coach him on how to fire people.
Why all at once? That sounds like a mandated "get rid of x percent" and of course that's the people who aren't buddies with their manager. May well have nothing to do with how competent they are.
Yep. The absolute worst management I ever worked for used stack ranking. The guy who mandated it was a psychopath. He actually said he liked firing people. It ensures the worst possible behavior from your employees, because you know it's all about who can play favorites the best.
Heck, why not blame Obama for it, as long as you don't have anything other than speculation.
I've just never noticed in the middle of a space battle someone taking a long swig from a Coke and then talking about how amazing it is that Coke has been refreshing people since the late 19th century. Now again, I don't watch network TV so I wouldn't have seen it there, but I do watch shows on Netflix and I just haven't noticed it. The most I'll notice is when they zoom in on a car for about a second and you notice it's a Chevy or whatever, but that sure doesn't break the flow.
Same here. If someone points it out I'll notice it, but a guy in the show taking a swig from a coke can just doesn't have any impact on me.
I watched the new Star Trek pilot on CBS, first time I had watched network TV in a while, and talk about getting pulled out... felt like every 2 minutes they were cutting to a commercial. It really started to drive me crazy. I would much, much, MUCH rather have even the most blatant product placement than that.
Really? Much as I don't trust the NSA, I find it unlikely they are going to vote for me or siphon off my money from my bank accounts.
Someone actually modded this up? Really?
Wow... the concept of a "compiler" that reveals bugs before runtime!!!! Amazing that no one ever thought of that before.
Sorry, I'm being horribly sarcastic because I'm sad to see people re-inventing the wheel. I use Typescript at work and it's sad to see it try to bolt a reasonable language on top of the smoking pile that is Javascript.
Oh well...
I used Thunderbird for a while on one computer. It was a disaster. It managed to make the simple act of configuring an email account incredibly difficult. It had some sort of broken "auto-detect" feature that took a while to try to figure out the settings for the server you had entered, and then when it failed, IT DIDN'T LET YOU ENTER THE CORRECT SETTINGS. I spent God knows how much time screwing around with, thinking there must be some way to get the settings in, because nobody would be that dumb.
Finally realized the only way to do it was to interrupt the auto-detect in middle, and then it left the UI in a state where it was possible to enter the correct settings.
I've used a ton of email clients, going back to Eudora, and Thunderbird was far and away the worst.
Yeah, it's only worked for 10 years. If I really wanted to be safe, I guess I could telnet to websites and just pick out what I wanted from the readable text.
I don't use a script blocker and do a bit of ad-blocking. If a site slows me down, I close it. Problem solved.
Lucy: "Your ignorance is appalling!"
Linus: "Most ignorance is".
Fortunately it's TGIF so I'm not too appalled.
The comment I replied to just doesn't make sense. In case you somehow missed that, here is the comment that stupidly was rated "insightful":
DRM is not open. You can't have an 'interoperable' DRM standard, because its entire purpose is to stop things from being interoperable.
Are you really saying you can't have a DRM standard? Really?
How on earth did this get rated "Insightful" on a supposedly tech-savvy forum?
The main reason I just switched to Chrome from Firefox is that FF recently did an update that broke 1Password. Not to mention Chrome generally is faster and smoother.
3.3 Concensus includes
In some cases, even after careful consideration of all points of view, a group might find itself unable to reach consensus. The Chair may record a decision where there is dissent (i.e., there is at least one Formal Objection) so that the group may make progress (for example, to produce a deliverable in a timely manner). Dissenters cannot stop a group's work simply by saying that they cannot live with a decision. When the Chair believes that the Group has duly considered the legitimate concerns of dissenters as far as is possible and reasonable, the group should move on.
I assume this was considered to be the case. That there was dissent, not on technical grounds but on the fundamental basis that the DRM standard shouldn't exist at all. Which means that there wasn't going to be unanimous (or even close to unanimous) consensus.
Like no one will every need more than 128k? Remember that?
Hard to avoid, everything trump says is lame ass.
The link that says that the W3C is endorsing a standard against the consensus of its members goes to an article that says
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry body that oversees development of HTML and related Web standards, has today published the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification as a Recommendation, marking its final blessing as an official Web standard. Final approval came after the W3C's members voted 58.4 percent to approve the spec, 30.8 percent to oppose
So if almost 60% approve, isn't that about as much consensus as you ever get on a standard?
Well, if people don't play party politics and oppose the trump agenda, for sure we will lose our personal freedom. Seems like a great time to get involved in politics. No can say right now "oh, there's no difference"... well, you can say that, but that's an "alternate fact".
holy cow, someone rated the parent troll as "informative"???