>I don't think he will have any problems passing on his genes.
But should he? I worked with a guy (Mormon) who had 5 autisitc kids. He and his wife just kept pumping them out, one after the other, even after finding out they were pretty much guaranteed to all be autistic. They weren't done at 5 either. Now if they could afford to take care of all of them without help I'd be fine with that but they were on so many government assistance plans I couldn't keep count of them all.
There is an ethical question of whether someone should pass on bad genes or whether those genes are even bad to begin with. No doubt people have the right, but just because you have a right to do something doesn't ethically obligate you to do it.
Not likely. You can already see most people moving to Arch, Gentoo or one of the RPM based distros in greater numbers. Linux Mint is just a slightly less ugly Ubuntu and the Debian edition doesn't offer any compelling benefits over the Ubuntu edition for end users. I'm sorry to say but apt/dpkg really haven't aged well and are replaced nicely by yum/pacman and other tools.
Its sad that these days it is easier to theme Windows than it is Linux. It's also sad after so many years of mocking Windows users for their unstable desktop experience that we're now stuck with Unity, GNOME 3 and KDE 4 which are less stable than Windows ME. It's like Linux on the desktop is going backwards instead of forwards. I have all my hopes on Wayland but if I don't see major improvement in Linux desktop distro's within the next year I'm just going to give up and move to FreeBSD for servers and Mac OSX for desktops. Enough with the endless beta test.
I'm against gay marriage. I think it's ridiculous that people who aren't religious want to engage in a religious institution. That said, the type of attitude you have is much much worse than anything you could possibly ascribe to me. You wish not to discriminate against gays, fine, but then turn around and want to discriminate against people like Eich and myself.
You're a hypocrite of the worst kind. Eich is free to disagree with gay marriage all he likes. If he breaks a law then you can kick and scream and stamp your feet like a fucking child, until then piss off.
- the US has fallen from 16th in 2012 to 31st in 2014 for broadband speed...
No capitalism involved in this example because the telcos are government granted monopolies.
- pro sports tickets are almost unaffordable to the average person
Not capitalism because the team is granted a monopoly in their area by the city. This is good and bad. Good because it keeps teams from sprouting up stadiums all over the place. Bad because they can then charge whatever they want and sports morons will pay it.
- US healthcare is the most expensive per capita in the developed world and is ranked 33 for infant mortality
There is zero capitalism in medicine today because the FDA controls everything from drugs to medical devices and states grant monopolies to insurance providers. I can't by out of state insurance to compete with the fuckers that are ripping me off.
We need to get of this 'we;re great, capitalism solves everything' fox news mantra and look at what's actually happening.
No, YOU need to take your head out of your ass and stop blaming Fox News for all of your very real liberal inadequacy.
What exactly does my cable bill give me then, if not access to services on the web?
I'll give you a simple example of what the Telcos want this to be like:
My wife and I went to a new wine tasting place here in town. They touted the fact they have more wine tasting machines than anywhere else in the world. You walk up to it, insert your payment and choose the oz you want and the type and you get it in a little tasting cup. Sounds simple right? It should be except that you can't use your debit or credit card and the machines don't take cash. You have to purchase a card from them to use the machines. Just the card, you have to then put money on the card after you've purchased it.
AT&T want you to think of the connection they give you as that card. They then want to charge you per site or service beyond that. You pay for the priviledge of being their customer. It's the same racket gym's have been doing for decades with their "initiation" fees they claim they need to process your paperwork and somehow cost 100$+.
Want to be their customer? You have to pay for it. Then you get to pay for it some more.
I always found it drained the hell out of my battery. On a laptop or desktop I doubt it would be that bad but on a cell phone or tablet it was very difficult to get through the day with it on.
They are terrified, because it would mean more work for them and less advancement of the linux graphics stack. Having three display servers ( Xorg, Wayland, Mir) increases the amount of code paths everything and everyone has to deal with.
No it doesn't. No one but Canonical will be supporting Mir and Xorg will go away. Leaving Wayland for the adults. No one besides Canonical gives two shits about Mir and once Wayland is stable enough for primary use people will switch to it faster than they did to systemd.
The executives essentially formed their own union. The gentlemen's agreement (which is anything but. A crony capitalists agreement is a better name for it) is simply their by-laws.
To counter this, every tech worker in the entire valley should form their own union and stick it to the fucking executives for a change. I moved from the valley 15 years ago because of shit like this. I'll never return but would love to see these mother fuckers get what is coming to them.
Someone is getting their pockets lined. This is politics Al Gore style. Its pathetic, "food shortages" yeah right, because we all know food doesn't grow when the climate is warmer........ Scare tactics by intellectually challenged pseudo scientists.
More likely they had smaller class sizes and teachers competent enough to explain it thoroughly before sending them home with it. Seriously, how does a kid even get to ask a question when classes sizes are 40+ students per room these days?
My biggest problem with math as a kid was I never had a math teacher that spoke fluent English. I couldn't understand them. And when I had questions, and was lucky enough to actually get called on to ask it, I rarely understood wtf they were saying.
I have no, zero, nada idea what's being discussed here. Am I the only un-enlightened person on/. and it has been the latest craze and buzz and just I'm so far out of the loop that I have never ever heard of it?
Latest craze and buzz? No, Enlightenment was pretty popular about the time you registered your slashdot account. Wayland has been in the works for years now, too.
Enlightenment was all the rage when I register MY slashdot account. It's positively ancient and has never had any real install base. In fact its pretty much the buggiest pile of shit on earth and even trumps Google in terms of length of time in beta.
States playing favorites with healthcare providers and giving them the same type of monopolies in their states that they do telcos is the problem. There is zero reason why every insurance provider can't compete in every single market, yet states consistently block providers for participating. There is no free market presently.
Is this really something that's best fixed by expecting Nvidia/ATI/Intel to release higher quality drivers for every distro? Or is this a distro problem, where LInux will simply never have ability to handle acceleration very well because it's a constantly-moving target?
It's an honest question. I'm curious to see what people involved with either Linux or GPU drivers thinks.
It's both. Distro's refuse to install the binary blobs from the providers, instead using the open source and usually crippled versions while the graphics card providers refuse to open up their source (though intel is better at this than the others).
I'm hoping a move to Wayland will smooth things out. I'm not a gamer anymore so intel graphics are good enough for me so I just deal with it.
I remember these types of problems in the early days of Linux, only then it was audio drivers. Getting audio to work was a disaster. Video typically worked ok but that was before nVidia and AMD were the major players. Now the tides have turned and audio works like a dream and video is what sucks ass.
I swear I've had more issues with video this last year than I did in the last 15 combined.
If I can I do. But at least in that case LG and Sony actually made the fucking device. I don't Best Buy written all over it too any more than I want Verizon written on, nut then again, at least they are providing the service.
If RadioShack wants to advertise on MY device after I bought it then I want compensation for that.
I stopped visiting RadioShack in the mid-90's because everything in it had their fucking name stamped on it in big ass bold letters. I wanted an alarm clock but every single one had "WE'RE RADIOSHACK BITCH" written on the front right next to the time. I hate this in much the same way I hate car dealers putting their dealerships logo on the car I want to buy. I actually made a salesman scrape it off and have it repainted at their expense before I purchased the vehicle.
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>I don't think he will have any problems passing on his genes.
But should he? I worked with a guy (Mormon) who had 5 autisitc kids. He and his wife just kept pumping them out, one after the other, even after finding out they were pretty much guaranteed to all be autistic. They weren't done at 5 either. Now if they could afford to take care of all of them without help I'd be fine with that but they were on so many government assistance plans I couldn't keep count of them all.
There is an ethical question of whether someone should pass on bad genes or whether those genes are even bad to begin with. No doubt people have the right, but just because you have a right to do something doesn't ethically obligate you to do it.
Not likely. You can already see most people moving to Arch, Gentoo or one of the RPM based distros in greater numbers. Linux Mint is just a slightly less ugly Ubuntu and the Debian edition doesn't offer any compelling benefits over the Ubuntu edition for end users. I'm sorry to say but apt/dpkg really haven't aged well and are replaced nicely by yum/pacman and other tools.
Its sad that these days it is easier to theme Windows than it is Linux. It's also sad after so many years of mocking Windows users for their unstable desktop experience that we're now stuck with Unity, GNOME 3 and KDE 4 which are less stable than Windows ME. It's like Linux on the desktop is going backwards instead of forwards. I have all my hopes on Wayland but if I don't see major improvement in Linux desktop distro's within the next year I'm just going to give up and move to FreeBSD for servers and Mac OSX for desktops. Enough with the endless beta test.
I saw something like this coming. As soon as Carmack joined the Oculus team I knew it would die somehow. Everything he touches turns to shit.
There may be some backlash, such as RareBits pulling their app from the Firefox Marketplace, due to Brendan Eich's support of the anti-gay marriage Prop 8 initiative in CA. Eich publicly responded back in 2012. The issue is being discussed on Hacker News as well.
I'm against gay marriage. I think it's ridiculous that people who aren't religious want to engage in a religious institution. That said, the type of attitude you have is much much worse than anything you could possibly ascribe to me. You wish not to discriminate against gays, fine, but then turn around and want to discriminate against people like Eich and myself.
You're a hypocrite of the worst kind. Eich is free to disagree with gay marriage all he likes. If he breaks a law then you can kick and scream and stamp your feet like a fucking child, until then piss off.
- the US has fallen from 16th in 2012 to 31st in 2014 for broadband speed...
No capitalism involved in this example because the telcos are government granted monopolies.
- pro sports tickets are almost unaffordable to the average person
Not capitalism because the team is granted a monopoly in their area by the city. This is good and bad. Good because it keeps teams from sprouting up stadiums all over the place. Bad because they can then charge whatever they want and sports morons will pay it.
- US healthcare is the most expensive per capita in the developed world and is ranked 33 for infant mortality
There is zero capitalism in medicine today because the FDA controls everything from drugs to medical devices and states grant monopolies to insurance providers. I can't by out of state insurance to compete with the fuckers that are ripping me off.
We need to get of this 'we;re great, capitalism solves everything' fox news mantra and look at what's actually happening.
No, YOU need to take your head out of your ass and stop blaming Fox News for all of your very real liberal inadequacy.
What exactly does my cable bill give me then, if not access to services on the web?
I'll give you a simple example of what the Telcos want this to be like:
My wife and I went to a new wine tasting place here in town. They touted the fact they have more wine tasting machines than anywhere else in the world. You walk up to it, insert your payment and choose the oz you want and the type and you get it in a little tasting cup. Sounds simple right? It should be except that you can't use your debit or credit card and the machines don't take cash. You have to purchase a card from them to use the machines. Just the card, you have to then put money on the card after you've purchased it.
AT&T want you to think of the connection they give you as that card. They then want to charge you per site or service beyond that. You pay for the priviledge of being their customer. It's the same racket gym's have been doing for decades with their "initiation" fees they claim they need to process your paperwork and somehow cost 100$+.
Want to be their customer? You have to pay for it. Then you get to pay for it some more.
I always found it drained the hell out of my battery. On a laptop or desktop I doubt it would be that bad but on a cell phone or tablet it was very difficult to get through the day with it on.
They are terrified, because it would mean more work for them and less advancement of the linux graphics stack. Having three display servers ( Xorg, Wayland, Mir) increases the amount of code paths everything and everyone has to deal with.
No it doesn't. No one but Canonical will be supporting Mir and Xorg will go away. Leaving Wayland for the adults. No one besides Canonical gives two shits about Mir and once Wayland is stable enough for primary use people will switch to it faster than they did to systemd.
I'm a user and I care.
The executives essentially formed their own union. The gentlemen's agreement (which is anything but. A crony capitalists agreement is a better name for it) is simply their by-laws.
To counter this, every tech worker in the entire valley should form their own union and stick it to the fucking executives for a change. I moved from the valley 15 years ago because of shit like this. I'll never return but would love to see these mother fuckers get what is coming to them.
Twitter is social media for retards......
Someone is getting their pockets lined. This is politics Al Gore style. Its pathetic, "food shortages" yeah right, because we all know food doesn't grow when the climate is warmer........ Scare tactics by intellectually challenged pseudo scientists.
More likely they had smaller class sizes and teachers competent enough to explain it thoroughly before sending them home with it. Seriously, how does a kid even get to ask a question when classes sizes are 40+ students per room these days?
My biggest problem with math as a kid was I never had a math teacher that spoke fluent English. I couldn't understand them. And when I had questions, and was lucky enough to actually get called on to ask it, I rarely understood wtf they were saying.
I have no, zero, nada idea what's being discussed here. Am I the only un-enlightened person on /. and it has been the latest craze and buzz and just I'm so far out of the loop that I have never ever heard of it?
Latest craze and buzz? No, Enlightenment was pretty popular about the time you registered your slashdot account. Wayland has been in the works for years now, too.
Enlightenment was all the rage when I register MY slashdot account. It's positively ancient and has never had any real install base. In fact its pretty much the buggiest pile of shit on earth and even trumps Google in terms of length of time in beta.
States playing favorites with healthcare providers and giving them the same type of monopolies in their states that they do telcos is the problem. There is zero reason why every insurance provider can't compete in every single market, yet states consistently block providers for participating. There is no free market presently.
You're still an asshole socialist prick though.
And yet you bought and use Windows 8 rather than abstaining and hitting MS in the pocket book where it counts. They really learned a lesson there.
Yep. Dumped all my tech stocks today. This is going to be real ugly. It'll be 10 years before the dust settles.
Is this really something that's best fixed by expecting Nvidia/ATI/Intel to release higher quality drivers for every distro? Or is this a distro problem, where LInux will simply never have ability to handle acceleration very well because it's a constantly-moving target?
It's an honest question. I'm curious to see what people involved with either Linux or GPU drivers thinks.
It's both. Distro's refuse to install the binary blobs from the providers, instead using the open source and usually crippled versions while the graphics card providers refuse to open up their source (though intel is better at this than the others).
I'm hoping a move to Wayland will smooth things out. I'm not a gamer anymore so intel graphics are good enough for me so I just deal with it.
I remember these types of problems in the early days of Linux, only then it was audio drivers. Getting audio to work was a disaster. Video typically worked ok but that was before nVidia and AMD were the major players. Now the tides have turned and audio works like a dream and video is what sucks ass.
I swear I've had more issues with video this last year than I did in the last 15 combined.
Cool story bro. Still aren't making any fucking sense though.
Sounds like they are ripe to be bought. I could see these as Google or Samsung storefronts easily. Apple store competition overnight.
If I can I do. But at least in that case LG and Sony actually made the fucking device. I don't Best Buy written all over it too any more than I want Verizon written on, nut then again, at least they are providing the service.
If RadioShack wants to advertise on MY device after I bought it then I want compensation for that.
I stopped visiting RadioShack in the mid-90's because everything in it had their fucking name stamped on it in big ass bold letters. I wanted an alarm clock but every single one had "WE'RE RADIOSHACK BITCH" written on the front right next to the time. I hate this in much the same way I hate car dealers putting their dealerships logo on the car I want to buy. I actually made a salesman scrape it off and have it repainted at their expense before I purchased the vehicle.