97% of the people in the world don't even know Linux exists. Would they dislike Linux if they did know? Some would, some wouldn't. Since they don't know about it, drawing conclusions about the relative proportions of users is meaningless.
It may be *your* opinion that Linux is unusable garbage. But then again, that's the opinion of someone who thinks that they are qualified to judge the opinions of billions of people who *have* no opinions, so forgive me if I discount *your* opinion on the subject.
You do realize that fireproof safes are intended to protect paper, right? They don't keep the interior *cool*, they keep it cool enough that it won't ignite paper in the limited amount of oxygen inside.
If you're lucky your disk might be readable afterwards, or at least Overland or someone like that could retrieve it, but I don't think I'd make that my primary plan.
This was one of the reasons that I (used to) like CrashPlan.
Their software allowed you to designate other computers running CrashPlan as destinations -- either other computers on your own plan, or friends that have given you an access code.
I have one sister who lives a thousand miles from me who backs up to me, and one who lives 3000 miles away. Until February, anyway, when my account expires.
There really don't seem to be any alternatives that support Linux. There are some roll-your-own options, but nothing very straightforward. And they're all significantly higher priced.
I had a student that repeatedly set his account on our email server to forward to what he *thought* his gmail address was. It *did * match his name, but it also matched the legitimate owner of that address.
I had to field the justifiably irate emails from the actual account holder, and I was never able to convince the student that even though it was his name, it wasn't his gmail address. I eventually just removed his ability to set a forward.
Reusing code for some sort of production is good sense.
Reusing code that you are supposed to be writing in order to learn *how* to write it using certain techniques short circuits the learning process. You may get the code to do what you want, but the important result (you learned how to do it) doesn't happen. Nobody needs a program to pick from a menu to multiply two numbers, or to print out a Fibonacci sequence, or whatever. What they do need is a programmer who can create these things, because that programmer is on their way to create things that will actually be useful.
So reusing code for school assignments is stupid. You may or may not get caught, but either way, you didn't learn anything. So why even take the class?
According to a post by a site admin at opensubtitles.org, the problem was in the filenames of the subtitle file, and special character in those names. Apparently some media players weren't careful in how they parsed the names.
It's interesting that the children that have taken over Slashdot immediately make silly assumptions about the demographics and/or politics of other posters -- in all directions -- and none of it corresponds to reality. And they use these assumptions to pick fights.
I guess the adults have all left. Guess there's nothing left here. Thanks for the heads up.
Hmm. I just checked, and the only Adobe anything that's installed on my Mint instance is the Flash plugin. Is that what you mean?
And although mdm *does* load webkit, I don't see anything to indicate it's loading any plugins. Maybe I'm missing something. I certainly haven't been prompted to agree to any licenses.
Ubuntu is dropping things that Mint doesn't use. Why would that suggest any uncertainty about Ubuntu?
The base that Mint uses doesn't appear to have any shift in direction. Well, Wayland instead of Mir, but that's down the road and may end up in Debian as well at some point.
There are sites that I *intend* to go to directly, but I never remember. Having the RSS reader on my phone means that I can keep track of what's going on there when I have a free moment.
And a sideslip isn't a bank anyway. You have crossed controls -- it doesn't send you around a curve, it causes the aircraft to fly sideways (slightly.)
I'm not a current pilot. My last flight was in 1988.
But I can tell you that when I was current, a two mile in diameter circular runway would have made me uncomfortable. A typical *small* airport runway is half a mile to a mile in length. A large airport often has a runway of two or more miles in length. That's *straight*. A curve with a radius of one mile is a pretty sharp turn by comparison.
Landing gear really aren't designed for side loads. Turns on the ground are usually made at pretty slow speeds. During the transition between rolling and flying, you're trying to accelerate as fast as possible to a safe flying speed, or trying to decelerate as fast as possible to a "not-flying" state. The easiest and safest way to do that is in a straight line. Don't complicate that by trying to drive/fly a curve at the same time.
You got that right. This wasn't job related, but I've run across a couple of phone apps (fitness apps, both of them) where you enter your age by scrolling back one month at a time to get to the month of your birth. There was no option to simply enter the damned thing in directly.
That's over <mpphh> hundred taps -- if you tap too fast, you trigger accessibility features (like a magnifying lens) -- needless to say, I didn't continue with those apps. And no, despite my "advanced" age, my vision is fine.
The 3520 has a trackpoint. The XPS does not (that didn't surprise me much, it's an ultrabook) and neither does the 5520. It looks like they're shooting for "slim" on the 5520 as well.
Years ago, even if you could find a vendor like Dell who would sell you a Linux version, the Linux version ended up costing you more than the Windows version, if for for no other reason than the kickbacks the vendor got from all the crapware that came pre-installed on the Windows version. Either that or you had to choose completely different hardware for the Linux version, and the Linux hardware was always inferior.
With this generation of of Dells, choosing Ubuntu as the OS actually cuts the price, on the same hardware.
Exactly. All this talk of politics is a red herring. Firefox is becoming irrelevant because they have abandoned the features that make them valuable and embraced features that really don't matter. Or are annoying.
Firefox is still my browser of choice, *despite* all the "improvements" they've made over the last few years. To borrow a phrase from long ago, "It sucks less." At least compared to all the rest.
There are no good browsers anymore. Firefox used to be one, but they're driving the "It sucks" bandwagon as hard as they can, and by the time they finally vanish, there will be nothing left to mourn. For now, they're the best of a bad lot.
Their politics is fine. Good, even. It's their software choices that are the root of their downfall.
I pretty much stopped watching TV during the last writer's strike. By the time they finished their strike, I realized I didn't miss it, and never started back up. A couple of discs a week from Netflix more than filled up my time -- even that tends to be more than I have time for.
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98% of the people of the world? Not at all.
97% of the people in the world don't even know Linux exists. Would they dislike Linux if they did know? Some would, some wouldn't. Since they don't know about it, drawing conclusions about the relative proportions of users is meaningless.
It may be *your* opinion that Linux is unusable garbage. But then again, that's the opinion of someone who thinks that they are qualified to judge the opinions of billions of people who *have* no opinions, so forgive me if I discount *your* opinion on the subject.
Um.
You do realize that fireproof safes are intended to protect paper, right? They don't keep the interior *cool*, they keep it cool enough that it won't ignite paper in the limited amount of oxygen inside.
If you're lucky your disk might be readable afterwards, or at least Overland or someone like that could retrieve it, but I don't think I'd make that my primary plan.
This was one of the reasons that I (used to) like CrashPlan.
Their software allowed you to designate other computers running CrashPlan as destinations -- either other computers on your own plan, or friends that have given you an access code.
I have one sister who lives a thousand miles from me who backs up to me, and one who lives 3000 miles away. Until February, anyway, when my account expires.
There really don't seem to be any alternatives that support Linux. There are some roll-your-own options, but nothing very straightforward. And they're all significantly higher priced.
I had a student that repeatedly set his account on our email server to forward to what he *thought* his gmail address was. It *did * match his name, but it also matched the legitimate owner of that address.
I had to field the justifiably irate emails from the actual account holder, and I was never able to convince the student that even though it was his name, it wasn't his gmail address. I eventually just removed his ability to set a forward.
Reusing code for some sort of production is good sense.
Reusing code that you are supposed to be writing in order to learn *how* to write it using certain techniques short circuits the learning process. You may get the code to do what you want, but the important result (you learned how to do it) doesn't happen. Nobody needs a program to pick from a menu to multiply two numbers, or to print out a Fibonacci sequence, or whatever. What they do need is a programmer who can create these things, because that programmer is on their way to create things that will actually be useful.
So reusing code for school assignments is stupid. You may or may not get caught, but either way, you didn't learn anything. So why even take the class?
s/free labor/cheap labor/
This doesn't really change your point much, but TAs *are* paid.
According to a post by a site admin at opensubtitles.org, the problem was in the filenames of the subtitle file, and special character in those names. Apparently some media players weren't careful in how they parsed the names.
Heh.
The issue was that Sony bought music labels and now had a vested interest in restricting your ability to put anything you wanted on your music player.
This is not the same Sony that stood up to the movie industry in Sony v. Universal.
Wow.
It's interesting that the children that have taken over Slashdot immediately make silly assumptions about the demographics and/or politics of other posters -- in all directions -- and none of it corresponds to reality. And they use these assumptions to pick fights.
I guess the adults have all left. Guess there's nothing left here. Thanks for the heads up.
Well, simplicity I'll grant, and maybe consistency.
But a clean miss on beauty. Flat is ugly. Always has been. Always will be. No matter what's "trendy."
Hmm. I just checked, and the only Adobe anything that's installed on my Mint instance is the Flash plugin. Is that what you mean?
And although mdm *does* load webkit, I don't see anything to indicate it's loading any plugins. Maybe I'm missing something. I certainly haven't been prompted to agree to any licenses.
Exactly.
Ubuntu is dropping things that Mint doesn't use. Why would that suggest any uncertainty about Ubuntu?
The base that Mint uses doesn't appear to have any shift in direction. Well, Wayland instead of Mir, but that's down the road and may end up in Debian as well at some point.
Yup, TT-RSS replaced Reader for me as well.
There are sites that I *intend* to go to directly, but I never remember. Having the RSS reader on my phone means that I can keep track of what's going on there when I have a free moment.
You'd be wrong. I'd say the number of people who even *own* the refillable cup is tiny, and the number who actually use it regularly is smaller still.
It removes the convenience. You'd have to dump the grounds and clean it, and then refill it. If you're doing all that, why not just do a pour-over?
And a sideslip isn't a bank anyway. You have crossed controls -- it doesn't send you around a curve, it causes the aircraft to fly sideways (slightly.)
I'm not a current pilot. My last flight was in 1988.
But I can tell you that when I was current, a two mile in diameter circular runway would have made me uncomfortable. A typical *small* airport runway is half a mile to a mile in length. A large airport often has a runway of two or more miles in length. That's *straight*. A curve with a radius of one mile is a pretty sharp turn by comparison.
Landing gear really aren't designed for side loads. Turns on the ground are usually made at pretty slow speeds. During the transition between rolling and flying, you're trying to accelerate as fast as possible to a safe flying speed, or trying to decelerate as fast as possible to a "not-flying" state. The easiest and safest way to do that is in a straight line. Don't complicate that by trying to drive/fly a curve at the same time.
You got that right. This wasn't job related, but I've run across a couple of phone apps (fitness apps, both of them) where you enter your age by scrolling back one month at a time to get to the month of your birth. There was no option to simply enter the damned thing in directly.
That's over <mpphh> hundred taps -- if you tap too fast, you trigger accessibility features (like a magnifying lens) -- needless to say, I didn't continue with those apps. And no, despite my "advanced" age, my vision is fine.
Its 15.6" *default* display is 1366x768. The upgrade to 1920x1080 is about $100.
The 3520 has a trackpoint. The XPS does not (that didn't surprise me much, it's an ultrabook) and neither does the 5520. It looks like they're shooting for "slim" on the 5520 as well.
Years ago, even if you could find a vendor like Dell who would sell you a Linux version, the Linux version ended up costing you more than the Windows version, if for for no other reason than the kickbacks the vendor got from all the crapware that came pre-installed on the Windows version. Either that or you had to choose completely different hardware for the Linux version, and the Linux hardware was always inferior.
With this generation of of Dells, choosing Ubuntu as the OS actually cuts the price, on the same hardware.
Hmm. Many of my students write like this routinely. I wonder...
Exactly. All this talk of politics is a red herring. Firefox is becoming irrelevant because they have abandoned the features that make them valuable and embraced features that really don't matter. Or are annoying.
Firefox is still my browser of choice, *despite* all the "improvements" they've made over the last few years. To borrow a phrase from long ago, "It sucks less." At least compared to all the rest.
There are no good browsers anymore. Firefox used to be one, but they're driving the "It sucks" bandwagon as hard as they can, and by the time they finally vanish, there will be nothing left to mourn. For now, they're the best of a bad lot.
Their politics is fine. Good, even. It's their software choices that are the root of their downfall.
Very much so. You see advocates of the new, ugly paradigm disparaging older interfaces as not being "modern."
I pretty much stopped watching TV during the last writer's strike. By the time they finished their strike, I realized I didn't miss it, and never started back up. A couple of discs a week from Netflix more than filled up my time -- even that tends to be more than I have time for.
Phone thinness is stupid. I don't like cases, so a too-thin phone becomes just too damned fragile.