Fox News spews lies morning, noon and night, and no one in Washington raises a peep. Now, this will be become the false scandal of the hour (a new one is needed, as Benghazi is fading, and it looks like the FBI won't deliver the goods on those email servers), so without doubt we'll being hearing about this ad infinitum for months.
What are you talking about? Nancy Pelosi put out a hit on Fox and wouldn't allow most of the Dem controlled Congress to talk to Fox. Have you ever seen Pelosi on Fox? Once? Its never happened. Fox has been black balled by liberals in droves. Ailes has said repeatedly he would love to have more Democrats on the editorial shows but they refuse to come on.
How many interviews has Obama given Fox? I can think of 1 with O'Reilly which was very well recieved. 1 in 8 years. Hillary claimed Fox was part of a "vast right wing conspiracy" and has never appeared on it. Dems wont even give Fox the courtesy of a committee hearing to state their side, they'll just blast them in the media for hours while people like you spout off the DNC's talking points on the matter.
Its public discourse and something sadly lacking in this day and age of finger pointing. This is one of the committees functions and is meant to shed light on a topic of interest to the American public. It's unfortunate people like you are to partisan and biased to see the value of this.
So, why aren't there any protesters outside Red Hat's office? Why do people keep coming to Red Hat Summit? Why do they keep switching to RHEL 7? Maybe you're actually wrong and that not that many people actually have a problem with systemd. I mean if it actually pissed of so many then maybe we would see more of that outside of Slashdot and the likes, you know out there in the real world.
Don't really want to stir the pot here but my 2 cents are this. People are protesting in their own way. I've seen a huge uptake in BSD lately. But you're right that RHEL is growing. I attribute that to a lot of people simply not knowing or caring about the issue.
I happen to like systemd. I do not like the developers. I find them to be childish amateurs with extremely poor people skills. I also have huge problems with Lennart trying to replace the core OS with systemd. He's given presentations to this effect. He mocks rather than debates and actively belittles people who disagree with him. This is in stark contrast to Linus Torvalds who will call something stupid based on its technical merits or demerits. Linus doesn't show up to other peoples presentations, actively disrupt them and belittle the speakers on a regular basis for example.
If systemd was being developed by anyone other then Lennart the controversy would not be an issue. Rather than get out ahead of this Red Hat has stood back and let their guy make a mockery of the open source community. Had Lennart been working where I work instead he would at best have been told to step back and stop speaking and at worst been giving his walking papers.
There are legitimate questions about systemd. Many distros have adopted it because it makes creating and maintaining a distro easier. No other reason. It adds nothing to security and very little to functionality that wasn't already being done elsewhere. That said, I don't actually care. If the systemd shit hits the fan I can replace it very quickly in my systems. I have other security controls in place to negate it (layered approach) and I rather enjoy using it (although I have issues with journalctl).
Yeah... that's why the first thing I do on my Fedora and RHEL installs is switch to Cinnamon. Yes, it is/was Gnome-based. But with all the crack-addled BS fixed, and everything that should work just does. No need to install a bunch of shell extension to get semi-sane behavior from a desktop.
Look into Budgie instead. Cinnamon is unsustainable. The Mint folks rarely make commits to it, mostly because they lack the expertise. Budgie is a more realistic alternative to GNOME with longer term ambitions. Its very usable right now also.
The industry just needs to get off its laurels and stop pushing cloud. Since everything is going web application, there is little reason to have a beefy desktop system. The software vendors are pushing leased software that's cloud based, meaning the money hardware vendors would have made is now being spent monthly/annually by the software/cloud vendors.
If the hardware industry decided to standardize and actually push a free OS like Linux and tout the advantages to owning your own data, they would be back in business. Its wishful thinking and the hardware industry as a whole has never been very good about acting in their own best interest, preferring to suck the dick of their sugar daddy Microsoft but we could hope.
Remember, kids, a bubble is when your grandmother and her dog are throwing money into the stock market. After the dot com bust and the real estate bust, Grandma and the dog are keeping their money in a mattress.
Speak for your self [...] Quite relying on schools to teach your kids the basics you should be teaching them.
Basics like how to write English?
Yeah because typos are the same as not understanding the basics of English. Sorry, next time I'll proof read and hire an editor. I guess when you can't argue based on the substance you'll just have to happy arguing about the typos.
Speak for your self and your kids. Mine are growing up just fine. It's called parental involvement. Quite relying on schools to teach your kids the basics you should be teaching them. Even better, teach them and send them to private school too. Best of both worlds.
If you refuse to do the above then welcome to government education camps.
Am 51, and for the last decade I've experience some, yes. The most overt was for a Bay Area startup position that was going swimmingly until I did a Skype with the (much younger) DoE, and he saw I was "old". (Guess he couldn't read a resume.) But the more annoying ageism is a general assumption by some of the kids that if there is a difference of opinion on an engineering question, it's because the old guy is clinging to his anachronistic ways. Version control? Testing? Even a one-page design doc? Don't be such an old fuddy duddy!!:-)
It has its plusses, though. As an old guy, you realize that there's serious money to be made cleaning up after the kids. And experience can often tell you which projects are sure failures, which can save working on something hopeless for a year.
Interesting. I spend most of my time cleaning up after the old guys who set up their systems and code back in the 90's and can't for the life of them understand why any of it should be rebuilt/replaced/repaired. If I had a nickle for every script with hard coded IP's and passwords in it I could have retired in my 20's.
My general experience is that the older, experienced programmers are exactly those who don't preen and prance and have egos. They just know how to get the job done. Meanwhile, the 20 somethings are all busy trying to prove themselves better than each other.
We have very different experiences. Where I work 90% of the people are 45-55 years old. I'm not yet 40. Sitting and listening to them is painful. They spend hours talking about the good ole days and how cool they were. One guy literally comes in at 7am every day and does nothing but talk with the gang until about 10am. I think in an average day he does 2-3 hours of work even though he likes to be present until 5-6pm. He and some of the others there think that because they are there for 10-12 hours a day somehow they are worth the money, even though they dont do shit the entire time.
I work circles around these people. One of them has spent, literally, the last 14 months trying to decide what the right tool is for our department. I got sick of waiting on him and implemented a collection of open sources tools with some glue code just so I could get some damned work done. He ignores this and goes into every conversation as if it doesn't exist. Because he's the senior guy, everyone takes their lead from him. So they're all waiting on a solution while I get the job done. Yes I am extremely bitter about it.
I got more done last week than most of these guys will get done in a month or longer. They have been set in their ways for the last couple of decades. They don't do anything until some suit tells them to, despite our new CIO telling people they need to be making decisions themselves. When they do decide to work on something they bitch the entire time as if we're all putting them out by asking them to actually do their job. They sit and decry all the new tools and software because it's not WinXP and NT4.
Certainly not everyone over 50 is like this. I know I won't be. But all too often when you see someone in a technical role in their 50's it's because they couldn't move up or because their attitudes had them shuffled from job to job and they couldn't build relationships and network they way they should have.
Hell even Linus Torvalds has moved on from a technical role into a more managerial one. Yes he is still technical but he's moved beyond being a code monkey.
"This is the crux of Tyson's point: if we take it as read that it is, in principle, possible to simulate a universe in some way, at some point in the future, then we have to assume that on an infinite timeline some species, somewhere, will simulate the universe"
Can we at least try not to sound like Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
Most banks screw their own customers first. A bank screwing itself is something else. Another reason to use a credit union.
Don't be so sure on the credit union. All they do is take the money and then put it in the coffers of another bank. You're still at the mercy of the banks with a credit union, its just that now you have a middle man between you.
I was already migrating more to other online stores out of moral objections to Amazon anyway. This just sorta seals it for me. I don't want to have any affiliation with them and I've been a member since 1999. If they can lose me they can lose anybody.
What was the big selling point for consoles over PCs? Simplicity and "just works". Seriously. Put it up, plug it in, plug it into your TV, throw that CD or cartridge into the thing and here we go. Game on.
I'm not sure thats ever been the case. Certainly sold that way but I remember a landfill full of ET games that would beg to differ on your point. Console games have always been buggy disasters and it's only been the last couple generations that even let you patch them.
Now the hardware, perhaps. But I think the red ring of death would be a good counter point and that was just one of many hardware issues many of the last 3-4 generations have had.
My point is that consoles have always had the same problems as PC gaming. The advantage always seemed to be that you can do it on the couch using a simpler control system and that they were more kid friendly.
That's a poll of Americans, not Christians. As a Christian myself, I waver on this topic but by and large, i don't know many Christians who are for the death penalty who haven't been affected by some violent crime.
If they did the poll asking if they were Christian, you would see a large number of people say yes, but if you then filtered it by how many actually attended services on any type of regular basis or who'd even read the bible, the number would drop significantly.
Snap is basically sandboxed apps the way Mac OS and now Windows is doing. It greatly simplifies deployment and dependancies. It also creates a number of issues but you should google it for more info.
Unity is greatly improved and very stable. The biggest change to me is the use of the GNOME software center instead of their own. I experienced a number of bugs with it and I'm not sure I care for it over the commandline yet. But for those who care, it's there.
It's an LTS tho so people who prefer LTS should jump on this as it will have the newest packages fit for an LTS (in Ubuntu's standards of LTS which differe from that of Debian).
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Fox News spews lies morning, noon and night, and no one in Washington raises a peep. Now, this will be become the false scandal of the hour (a new one is needed, as Benghazi is fading, and it looks like the FBI won't deliver the goods on those email servers), so without doubt we'll being hearing about this ad infinitum for months.
What are you talking about? Nancy Pelosi put out a hit on Fox and wouldn't allow most of the Dem controlled Congress to talk to Fox. Have you ever seen Pelosi on Fox? Once? Its never happened. Fox has been black balled by liberals in droves. Ailes has said repeatedly he would love to have more Democrats on the editorial shows but they refuse to come on.
How many interviews has Obama given Fox? I can think of 1 with O'Reilly which was very well recieved. 1 in 8 years. Hillary claimed Fox was part of a "vast right wing conspiracy" and has never appeared on it. Dems wont even give Fox the courtesy of a committee hearing to state their side, they'll just blast them in the media for hours while people like you spout off the DNC's talking points on the matter.
Exactly. It's political theater.
Its public discourse and something sadly lacking in this day and age of finger pointing. This is one of the committees functions and is meant to shed light on a topic of interest to the American public. It's unfortunate people like you are to partisan and biased to see the value of this.
Look out, /. editors; you're next.
Zuckerberg has stated manyy times that he wants Facebook to be your only news source.
So, why aren't there any protesters outside Red Hat's office? Why do people keep coming to Red Hat Summit? Why do they keep switching to RHEL 7? Maybe you're actually wrong and that not that many people actually have a problem with systemd. I mean if it actually pissed of so many then maybe we would see more of that outside of Slashdot and the likes, you know out there in the real world.
Don't really want to stir the pot here but my 2 cents are this. People are protesting in their own way. I've seen a huge uptake in BSD lately. But you're right that RHEL is growing. I attribute that to a lot of people simply not knowing or caring about the issue.
I happen to like systemd. I do not like the developers. I find them to be childish amateurs with extremely poor people skills. I also have huge problems with Lennart trying to replace the core OS with systemd. He's given presentations to this effect. He mocks rather than debates and actively belittles people who disagree with him. This is in stark contrast to Linus Torvalds who will call something stupid based on its technical merits or demerits. Linus doesn't show up to other peoples presentations, actively disrupt them and belittle the speakers on a regular basis for example.
If systemd was being developed by anyone other then Lennart the controversy would not be an issue. Rather than get out ahead of this Red Hat has stood back and let their guy make a mockery of the open source community. Had Lennart been working where I work instead he would at best have been told to step back and stop speaking and at worst been giving his walking papers.
There are legitimate questions about systemd. Many distros have adopted it because it makes creating and maintaining a distro easier. No other reason. It adds nothing to security and very little to functionality that wasn't already being done elsewhere. That said, I don't actually care. If the systemd shit hits the fan I can replace it very quickly in my systems. I have other security controls in place to negate it (layered approach) and I rather enjoy using it (although I have issues with journalctl).
"one of the best UIs"
Yeah... that's why the first thing I do on my Fedora and RHEL installs is switch to Cinnamon. Yes, it is/was Gnome-based. But with all the crack-addled BS fixed, and everything that should work just does. No need to install a bunch of shell extension to get semi-sane behavior from a desktop.
Look into Budgie instead. Cinnamon is unsustainable. The Mint folks rarely make commits to it, mostly because they lack the expertise. Budgie is a more realistic alternative to GNOME with longer term ambitions. Its very usable right now also.
The industry just needs to get off its laurels and stop pushing cloud. Since everything is going web application, there is little reason to have a beefy desktop system. The software vendors are pushing leased software that's cloud based, meaning the money hardware vendors would have made is now being spent monthly/annually by the software/cloud vendors.
If the hardware industry decided to standardize and actually push a free OS like Linux and tout the advantages to owning your own data, they would be back in business. Its wishful thinking and the hardware industry as a whole has never been very good about acting in their own best interest, preferring to suck the dick of their sugar daddy Microsoft but we could hope.
Remember, kids, a bubble is when your grandmother and her dog are throwing money into the stock market. After the dot com bust and the real estate bust, Grandma and the dog are keeping their money in a mattress.
No Grandma and her dog don't have any money left.
We should first create AI before we start selling it on fucking USB sticks.
Why should Comcast give everyone unlimited access to a self imposed limited resource?
Fixed that for you
Basics like how to write English?
Yeah because typos are the same as not understanding the basics of English. Sorry, next time I'll proof read and hire an editor. I guess when you can't argue based on the substance you'll just have to happy arguing about the typos.
Speak for your self and your kids. Mine are growing up just fine. It's called parental involvement. Quite relying on schools to teach your kids the basics you should be teaching them. Even better, teach them and send them to private school too. Best of both worlds.
If you refuse to do the above then welcome to government education camps.
The individuals listed could personally pony up $250 million from petty cash. Why ask the government for funding?
That's how liberals work.
1) there appears to be no way to add GPG to Gmail,
Check out Mailvelope, its a browser extension that lets you do GPG in pretty much every webmail service out there. Its quite good.
I do know that after a long and very successful career I took two years off to deal with health issues with one of my kids (now happily resolved)
Thats fucking awesome. Glad to here the little ones ok.
Am 51, and for the last decade I've experience some, yes. The most overt was for a Bay Area startup position that was going swimmingly until I did a Skype with the (much younger) DoE, and he saw I was "old". (Guess he couldn't read a resume.) But the more annoying ageism is a general assumption by some of the kids that if there is a difference of opinion on an engineering question, it's because the old guy is clinging to his anachronistic ways. Version control? Testing? Even a one-page design doc? Don't be such an old fuddy duddy!! :-)
It has its plusses, though. As an old guy, you realize that there's serious money to be made cleaning up after the kids. And experience can often tell you which projects are sure failures, which can save working on something hopeless for a year.
Interesting. I spend most of my time cleaning up after the old guys who set up their systems and code back in the 90's and can't for the life of them understand why any of it should be rebuilt/replaced/repaired. If I had a nickle for every script with hard coded IP's and passwords in it I could have retired in my 20's.
My general experience is that the older, experienced programmers are exactly those who don't preen and prance and have egos. They just know how to get the job done. Meanwhile, the 20 somethings are all busy trying to prove themselves better than each other.
We have very different experiences. Where I work 90% of the people are 45-55 years old. I'm not yet 40. Sitting and listening to them is painful. They spend hours talking about the good ole days and how cool they were. One guy literally comes in at 7am every day and does nothing but talk with the gang until about 10am. I think in an average day he does 2-3 hours of work even though he likes to be present until 5-6pm. He and some of the others there think that because they are there for 10-12 hours a day somehow they are worth the money, even though they dont do shit the entire time.
I work circles around these people. One of them has spent, literally, the last 14 months trying to decide what the right tool is for our department. I got sick of waiting on him and implemented a collection of open sources tools with some glue code just so I could get some damned work done. He ignores this and goes into every conversation as if it doesn't exist. Because he's the senior guy, everyone takes their lead from him. So they're all waiting on a solution while I get the job done. Yes I am extremely bitter about it.
I got more done last week than most of these guys will get done in a month or longer. They have been set in their ways for the last couple of decades. They don't do anything until some suit tells them to, despite our new CIO telling people they need to be making decisions themselves. When they do decide to work on something they bitch the entire time as if we're all putting them out by asking them to actually do their job. They sit and decry all the new tools and software because it's not WinXP and NT4.
Certainly not everyone over 50 is like this. I know I won't be. But all too often when you see someone in a technical role in their 50's it's because they couldn't move up or because their attitudes had them shuffled from job to job and they couldn't build relationships and network they way they should have.
Hell even Linus Torvalds has moved on from a technical role into a more managerial one. Yes he is still technical but he's moved beyond being a code monkey.
xenophobia and racism.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow that's fucking original
Ah yes, when I think of where I want financial advice from the first place I think of is Greece........... /s
"This is the crux of Tyson's point: if we take it as read that it is, in principle, possible to simulate a universe in some way, at some point in the future, then we have to assume that on an infinite timeline some species, somewhere, will simulate the universe"
Can we at least try not to sound like Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
Most banks screw their own customers first. A bank screwing itself is something else. Another reason to use a credit union.
Don't be so sure on the credit union. All they do is take the money and then put it in the coffers of another bank. You're still at the mercy of the banks with a credit union, its just that now you have a middle man between you.
I was already migrating more to other online stores out of moral objections to Amazon anyway. This just sorta seals it for me. I don't want to have any affiliation with them and I've been a member since 1999. If they can lose me they can lose anybody.
What was the big selling point for consoles over PCs? Simplicity and "just works". Seriously. Put it up, plug it in, plug it into your TV, throw that CD or cartridge into the thing and here we go. Game on.
I'm not sure thats ever been the case. Certainly sold that way but I remember a landfill full of ET games that would beg to differ on your point. Console games have always been buggy disasters and it's only been the last couple generations that even let you patch them.
Now the hardware, perhaps. But I think the red ring of death would be a good counter point and that was just one of many hardware issues many of the last 3-4 generations have had.
My point is that consoles have always had the same problems as PC gaming. The advantage always seemed to be that you can do it on the couch using a simpler control system and that they were more kid friendly.
That's a poll of Americans, not Christians. As a Christian myself, I waver on this topic but by and large, i don't know many Christians who are for the death penalty who haven't been affected by some violent crime.
If they did the poll asking if they were Christian, you would see a large number of people say yes, but if you then filtered it by how many actually attended services on any type of regular basis or who'd even read the bible, the number would drop significantly.
Its quite good and I say that as an Arch user.
Snap is basically sandboxed apps the way Mac OS and now Windows is doing. It greatly simplifies deployment and dependancies. It also creates a number of issues but you should google it for more info.
Unity is greatly improved and very stable. The biggest change to me is the use of the GNOME software center instead of their own. I experienced a number of bugs with it and I'm not sure I care for it over the commandline yet. But for those who care, it's there.
It's an LTS tho so people who prefer LTS should jump on this as it will have the newest packages fit for an LTS (in Ubuntu's standards of LTS which differe from that of Debian).
Grow some balls for fuck sake.