Yes, because the average user wants their desktop to break when they update their OS because their nvidia driver didn't compile correctly...
Ubuntu (and therefore everything based on it) has the http://ppa.launchpad.net/graph... repositories with the latest precompiled Nvidia drivers. Compiling an Nvidia driver hasn't been necessary in years. And Nvidia has really gotten its Linux act together recently, as their newer drivers integrate into the desktop seamlessly. This obviates all of the GCC stuff. There are legitimate problems, but having to manually compile anything isn't one of them.
My KDE desktop settings have mostly carried over for the last few rolling Kubuntu distribution upgrades. The sole exceptions have all been in the KDEPIN suite, which has gotten so bad that I stopped using every single application in the suite. It went from being a very respectable collection of integrated software to being an unpredictable, data-destroying nightmare that I can't stand anymore.
I have a small list of issues that I think would hold back the average person from being completely self-sufficient with Kubuntu, but none of them are show-stoppers.
Which doesn't matter one bit when the regulators are conspiring with those they regulate, which is where we are now.
You also seem to completely misunderstand what Net Neutrality is. It regulates ISP's, not Web sites. Google and Facebook don't factor into the Net Neutrality equation, except that they are Web sites that ISP's will be forbidden to discriminate against.
Out of curiosity, what do you think Net Neutrality is?
Sometimes the states step in and do the right thing when the feds do stupid things. And sometimes the states step in and do stupid things when the feds are doing the right thing. It varies wildly.
This is the much more relevant history lesson. SEQUEL was the database language created by IBM, but a trademark conflict with the UK-based Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering Limited company required IBM to change the name. The new name was SQL (Structured Query Language), pronounced ESS QUEUE ELL.
Dammit! Why the hell doesn't Slashdot provide a preview feature before posting!?
Oh, wait.
This is how it should have looked:
How is this ANY different than the MS Java case?
Microsoft agreed to abide by Sun's licensing terms in exchange for being allowed to call J# an implementation of Java. Microsoft violated those terms by making J# incompatible with Java.
Google copied the interface specification, wrote its entirely own implementation, and made it quite clear that it was NOT Java; but rather had a high degree of compatibility with certain parts of Java.
These cases could hardly be any more different. They are nearly polar opposites.
Given that, Google was really stupid about the whole thing. It should have started with the GPL'd Java, stripped out the parts not wanted for Android, then GPL'd the whole thing. Tada! A clean and completely unassailable (through copyright) Android. Plus many millions of litigation dollars saved.
Microsoft agreed to abide by Sun's licensing terms in exchange for being allowed to call J# an implementation of Java. Microsoft violated those terms by making J# incompatible with Java.
Google copied the interface specification, wrote its entirely own implementation, and made it quite clear that it was NOT Java; but rather had a high degree of compatibility with certain parts of Java.
These cases could hardly be any more different. They are nearly polar opposites.
Given that, Google was really stupid about the whole thing. It should have started with the GPL'd Java, stripped out the parts not wanted for Android, then GPL'd the whole thing. Tada! A clean and completely unassailable (through copyright) Android. Plus many millions of litigation dollars saved.
Google and Facebook, with all of their market penetration, can't hold a candle to the threat that Microsoft still poses to the PC industry. Microsoft is still dictating terms to hardware manufacturers (TPM, Restricted Boot), and are still able to do unfettered harm to users without so much as giving a single shit.
I initially read it as turning pictures of tablets into actual, editable tablets. It made absolutely no sense to me until I came back a few hours later and re-read the headline.
Put the 1-4 "screens" to watch behind the same ISP service.
Why? Netflix doesn't require that. You're making up terms of service that don't actually exist. If I pay for up to 4 screens, I don't care one bit if each screen is using a different ISP, and neither does Netflix, as it doesn't change a thing. Each device has to login to Netflix separately regardless of location, so requiring the same ISP is nonsensical. Netflix still know how many devices are logged in to the account, and is fully capable of limiting usage to what is being paid.
3 people could be on holiday for decades? 1 screen stays on with the main account?
That's a straw man argument (exaggerating), and makes no sense even then. But: as long as the monthly payments are being made for what is being used, it doesn't matter.
So I agree with the others that say this is a nonsensical study.
Compared to Linux (xwindows) making GUI applications with.NET and Visual Studio is a lot easier.
That's quite the false comparison you chose. A more appropriate comparison is making user interfaces with Dot Net vs. Java, and I find the latter to be FAR more productive and easy to use than the former. With Dot Net, I'm locked into a prison with horny, masochistic, ass-hungry guards.
What is believe? Either the math / physics works or it doesn't. Science is not an opinion based enterprise[.]
I think you're missing the real question in your quest to be snarky. The real question isn't whether the physics work or not; that's like saying that time travel either works or it doesn't, but without any evidence either way. Of course that's the case. Just like explosions can be controlled to propel large, heavy objects into space.
The real question is whether Tesla understood physics at a level sufficiently advanced to make wireless, intercontinental electrical transmission work. If so, then he would have expanded our knowledge of physics.
That presumes that such a feat is already allowed by physics, but the mechanism for doing so needs to be discovered by humans. To me, it seems at least plausible. After all, we watch wireless transmission of electricity over multi-mile distances all the time, and we know how it works. Tesla believed that he understood how to manipulate that same energy over vastly greater distances.
It's a real fucking shame that MS decided to get out of the browser business.
You must be REALLY young. Microsoft getting out of the browser business is a wet dream come true for the entire universe, as they suck at it really, REALLY bad.
Or how about the businesses that were so stupid as to ignore the warnings of everyone-that-is-not-Microsoft-or-a-shill pay the price themselves? It's not like they weren't warned extensively, and for decades, about the dangers of Active X and Internet Explorer. They brought it upon themselves, and more than kind of deserve the pain and expense.
I would like to think that they will have learned a lesson about the value of standards.
I just glanced through page 12 of rfc2822. It does indeed allow the period, but implies that it is a significant character. That would make "stormreaver", "storm.reaver" and "s.t.o.r.m.r.e.a.v.e.r" three distinctly different names. Google treating them the same would therefore be a violation of the standard.
IBM's innovation is replacing a horse and buggy with a buggy and horse, and calling it new technology. It's still just a scam meant to separate people from their money, with absolutely no added value in return.
I don't know if JavaFX has gained any traction, as I don't use it. To me, it was always a solution in search of a problem. I think it would have been better had the good parts of JavaFX (GPU acceleration) just been transparently activated within Swing where they made sense (such as displaying and scaling images), rather than having been made a separate API (even though you can mix JavaFX and Swing). Making it a separate API was just a bad idea, which is primarily why I decided to not use it.
Java desktop apps? Dead. Nobody's going to argue that.
I write new Java desktop apps (and maintain existing ones) as my primary job. I absolutely LOVE Swing, as it is very flexible, well designed, and snappy (JTable, for example, can contain and scroll through hundreds of thousands of rows just as easily and quickly as a couple dozen, performing custom processes on rows and columns). And the entirety of Swing is written with the same type of performance.
Java2EE absolutely sucks shit, and I feel sorry for anyone having to use that monstrosity, but Java SE is fantastic for desktop business applications.
The demise of Java has been writing on the wall since Oracle acquired Sun and didn't open source it.
Who didn't open source what? Sun open sourced Java BEFORE Oracle bought the whole kit and kaboodle. The rumors of Java's demise have been nonsensical ridiculousness. I hate Oracle as much as anyone else, but I don't have any complaints about its stewardship of Java. If Oracle does too bad a job, there are other companies fully able to pick up the ball and run with it. And with nothing more than a name change, there is nothing that Oracle can do about it.
Recently that's exactly what they've done by starting to charge for their flagship Java environment.
Oracle is charging its commercial customers more, but the rest of the world continues on like nothing is happening. Also, OpenJDK (which is now identical to Oracle's JDK) will always remain free from the Oracle licensing machine.
AT&T is no better. I have NEVER used more than a terabyte in a month, and my family streams Netflix and Youtube almost non-stop, on 4 simultaneous devices, from sun-up to after sun-down. Our average monthly usage, according to AT&T UVerse portal, is about 390GB per month. This has been consistent for years.
Then one month, our usage was mysteriously 2TB. AT&T sent me an email saying that they wouldn't charge me an overage "this time." Then next month, another 2TB and another notice of non-charge. But that time, the notice said that they would start charging me if I went over 1TB on any other month. I called AT&T, and asked them to detail where the data usage from coming from. They just shrugged, and basically told me that they had no way of knowing (lying cunt-suckers).
Mysteriously, my data usage went back to normal after the second month. This now opens the door for me to have another month of unexplained, billable data usage, since AT&T allows only two months of "excessive" data usage before they charge their extravagant overage fee (I think it's ten dollars for every additional fifty gigabytes over 1TB!).
But they have a solution! For "only" $30 (or is it $35) more per month, I can get an unlimited data plan. I'm sure the obvious corruption and conflict of interest are just in my head, and the virtuous AT&T monopolistic bastards would never do something so deceitful as to fake the exact number of data overages that they don't charge for in order to scare me into paying an additional $30/month.
Smug fake-science Monsanto shills sneer "nah nah, you're a stupid-pants!!"
You nailed it. I tried reading the linked article, but was quickly disgusted by how obviously pro-Monstanto the bias was. The article may as well have been paid for by Monsanto-Bayer (I would not be at all surprised to find out that it was), it was so obviously tainted all the way from the fake headline onward.
The fake headline is designed to encourage people to emotionally arrive at a Dunning-Kreuger conclusion, then manipulate those emotions to conclude that anti-GMO sentiment is unwarranted. But no part of the entire article deals with generalizations related to scientific consensus or the Dunning-Kreuger effect. Rather, the article is purely a pro-GMO propaganda piece designed to benefit Monsanto-Bayer.
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Yes, because the average user wants their desktop to break when they update their OS because their nvidia driver didn't compile correctly...
Ubuntu (and therefore everything based on it) has the http://ppa.launchpad.net/graph... repositories with the latest precompiled Nvidia drivers. Compiling an Nvidia driver hasn't been necessary in years. And Nvidia has really gotten its Linux act together recently, as their newer drivers integrate into the desktop seamlessly. This obviates all of the GCC stuff. There are legitimate problems, but having to manually compile anything isn't one of them.
My KDE desktop settings have mostly carried over for the last few rolling Kubuntu distribution upgrades. The sole exceptions have all been in the KDEPIN suite, which has gotten so bad that I stopped using every single application in the suite. It went from being a very respectable collection of integrated software to being an unpredictable, data-destroying nightmare that I can't stand anymore.
I have a small list of issues that I think would hold back the average person from being completely self-sufficient with Kubuntu, but none of them are show-stoppers.
AT&T and the cable companies are.
Which doesn't matter one bit when the regulators are conspiring with those they regulate, which is where we are now.
You also seem to completely misunderstand what Net Neutrality is. It regulates ISP's, not Web sites. Google and Facebook don't factor into the Net Neutrality equation, except that they are Web sites that ISP's will be forbidden to discriminate against.
Out of curiosity, what do you think Net Neutrality is?
I'd gladly pay $50/month in a single bill...
Why does it matter if the $50 is a single bill or ten bills, as they are automatically paid every month?
Sometimes the states step in and do the right thing when the feds do stupid things. And sometimes the states step in and do stupid things when the feds are doing the right thing. It varies wildly.
The real question is, SQL pronounced sequel?
This is the much more relevant history lesson. SEQUEL was the database language created by IBM, but a trademark conflict with the UK-based Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering Limited company required IBM to change the name. The new name was SQL (Structured Query Language), pronounced ESS QUEUE ELL.
Dammit! Why the hell doesn't Slashdot provide a preview feature before posting!?
Oh, wait.
This is how it should have looked:
How is this ANY different than the MS Java case?
Microsoft agreed to abide by Sun's licensing terms in exchange for being allowed to call J# an implementation of Java. Microsoft violated those terms by making J# incompatible with Java.
Google copied the interface specification, wrote its entirely own implementation, and made it quite clear that it was NOT Java; but rather had a high degree of compatibility with certain parts of Java.
These cases could hardly be any more different. They are nearly polar opposites.
Given that, Google was really stupid about the whole thing. It should have started with the GPL'd Java, stripped out the parts not wanted for Android, then GPL'd the whole thing. Tada! A clean and completely unassailable (through copyright) Android. Plus many millions of litigation dollars saved.
How is this ANY different than the MS Java case?
Microsoft agreed to abide by Sun's licensing terms in exchange for being allowed to call J# an implementation of Java. Microsoft violated those terms by making J# incompatible with Java.
Google copied the interface specification, wrote its entirely own implementation, and made it quite clear that it was NOT Java; but rather had a high degree of compatibility with certain parts of Java.
These cases could hardly be any more different. They are nearly polar opposites.
Given that, Google was really stupid about the whole thing. It should have started with the GPL'd Java, stripped out the parts not wanted for Android, then GPL'd the whole thing. Tada! A clean and completely unassailable (through copyright) Android. Plus many millions of litigation dollars saved.
I avoid Slashdot on April 1st and April 2nd to give the stupidity time to expire.
So it's not the language, but the programmer who uses it?
Google and Facebook, with all of their market penetration, can't hold a candle to the threat that Microsoft still poses to the PC industry. Microsoft is still dictating terms to hardware manufacturers (TPM, Restricted Boot), and are still able to do unfettered harm to users without so much as giving a single shit.
The EU is still barking up the wrong tree.
Even .PDF, and .MP3 will eventually suffer such a fate.
With Microsoft...
I think I found the problem.
I initially read it as turning pictures of tablets into actual, editable tablets. It made absolutely no sense to me until I came back a few hours later and re-read the headline.
It gets complex AC
Only if you over-complicate it.
Put the 1-4 "screens" to watch behind the same ISP service.
Why? Netflix doesn't require that. You're making up terms of service that don't actually exist. If I pay for up to 4 screens, I don't care one bit if each screen is using a different ISP, and neither does Netflix, as it doesn't change a thing. Each device has to login to Netflix separately regardless of location, so requiring the same ISP is nonsensical. Netflix still know how many devices are logged in to the account, and is fully capable of limiting usage to what is being paid.
3 people could be on holiday for decades? 1 screen stays on with the main account?
That's a straw man argument (exaggerating), and makes no sense even then. But: as long as the monthly payments are being made for what is being used, it doesn't matter.
So I agree with the others that say this is a nonsensical study.
Compared to Linux (xwindows) making GUI applications with .NET and Visual Studio is a lot easier.
That's quite the false comparison you chose. A more appropriate comparison is making user interfaces with Dot Net vs. Java, and I find the latter to be FAR more productive and easy to use than the former. With Dot Net, I'm locked into a prison with horny, masochistic, ass-hungry guards.
I run Linux Mint Cinnamon as my main desktop, and am amazed at how ungodly ugly Win10 is by comparison.
I run Kubuntu as my main desktop, and I totally agree with you about how absurdly ugly and unusable all versions of Windows are by comparison.
What is believe? Either the math / physics works or it doesn't. Science is not an opinion based enterprise[.]
I think you're missing the real question in your quest to be snarky. The real question isn't whether the physics work or not; that's like saying that time travel either works or it doesn't, but without any evidence either way. Of course that's the case. Just like explosions can be controlled to propel large, heavy objects into space.
The real question is whether Tesla understood physics at a level sufficiently advanced to make wireless, intercontinental electrical transmission work. If so, then he would have expanded our knowledge of physics.
That presumes that such a feat is already allowed by physics, but the mechanism for doing so needs to be discovered by humans. To me, it seems at least plausible. After all, we watch wireless transmission of electricity over multi-mile distances all the time, and we know how it works. Tesla believed that he understood how to manipulate that same energy over vastly greater distances.
It's a real fucking shame that MS decided to get out of the browser business.
You must be REALLY young. Microsoft getting out of the browser business is a wet dream come true for the entire universe, as they suck at it really, REALLY bad.
Or how about the businesses that were so stupid as to ignore the warnings of everyone-that-is-not-Microsoft-or-a-shill pay the price themselves? It's not like they weren't warned extensively, and for decades, about the dangers of Active X and Internet Explorer. They brought it upon themselves, and more than kind of deserve the pain and expense.
I would like to think that they will have learned a lesson about the value of standards.
I just glanced through page 12 of rfc2822. It does indeed allow the period, but implies that it is a significant character. That would make "stormreaver", "storm.reaver" and "s.t.o.r.m.r.e.a.v.e.r" three distinctly different names. Google treating them the same would therefore be a violation of the standard.
IBM's innovation is replacing a horse and buggy with a buggy and horse, and calling it new technology.
It's still just a scam meant to separate people from their money, with absolutely no added value in return.
I don't know if JavaFX has gained any traction, as I don't use it. To me, it was always a solution in search of a problem. I think it would have been better had the good parts of JavaFX (GPU acceleration) just been transparently activated within Swing where they made sense (such as displaying and scaling images), rather than having been made a separate API (even though you can mix JavaFX and Swing). Making it a separate API was just a bad idea, which is primarily why I decided to not use it.
Java desktop apps? Dead. Nobody's going to argue that.
I write new Java desktop apps (and maintain existing ones) as my primary job. I absolutely LOVE Swing, as it is very flexible, well designed, and snappy (JTable, for example, can contain and scroll through hundreds of thousands of rows just as easily and quickly as a couple dozen, performing custom processes on rows and columns). And the entirety of Swing is written with the same type of performance.
Java2EE absolutely sucks shit, and I feel sorry for anyone having to use that monstrosity, but Java SE is fantastic for desktop business applications.
The demise of Java has been writing on the wall since Oracle acquired Sun and didn't open source it.
Who didn't open source what? Sun open sourced Java BEFORE Oracle bought the whole kit and kaboodle. The rumors of Java's demise have been nonsensical ridiculousness. I hate Oracle as much as anyone else, but I don't have any complaints about its stewardship of Java. If Oracle does too bad a job, there are other companies fully able to pick up the ball and run with it. And with nothing more than a name change, there is nothing that Oracle can do about it.
Recently that's exactly what they've done by starting to charge for their flagship Java environment.
Oracle is charging its commercial customers more, but the rest of the world continues on like nothing is happening. Also, OpenJDK (which is now identical to Oracle's JDK) will always remain free from the Oracle licensing machine.
Java's future is still bright.
AT&T is no better. I have NEVER used more than a terabyte in a month, and my family streams Netflix and Youtube almost non-stop, on 4 simultaneous devices, from sun-up to after sun-down. Our average monthly usage, according to AT&T UVerse portal, is about 390GB per month. This has been consistent for years.
Then one month, our usage was mysteriously 2TB. AT&T sent me an email saying that they wouldn't charge me an overage "this time." Then next month, another 2TB and another notice of non-charge. But that time, the notice said that they would start charging me if I went over 1TB on any other month. I called AT&T, and asked them to detail where the data usage from coming from. They just shrugged, and basically told me that they had no way of knowing (lying cunt-suckers).
Mysteriously, my data usage went back to normal after the second month. This now opens the door for me to have another month of unexplained, billable data usage, since AT&T allows only two months of "excessive" data usage before they charge their extravagant overage fee (I think it's ten dollars for every additional fifty gigabytes over 1TB!).
But they have a solution! For "only" $30 (or is it $35) more per month, I can get an unlimited data plan. I'm sure the obvious corruption and conflict of interest are just in my head, and the virtuous AT&T monopolistic bastards would never do something so deceitful as to fake the exact number of data overages that they don't charge for in order to scare me into paying an additional $30/month.
Smug fake-science Monsanto shills sneer "nah nah, you're a stupid-pants!!"
You nailed it. I tried reading the linked article, but was quickly disgusted by how obviously pro-Monstanto the bias was. The article may as well have been paid for by Monsanto-Bayer (I would not be at all surprised to find out that it was), it was so obviously tainted all the way from the fake headline onward.
The fake headline is designed to encourage people to emotionally arrive at a Dunning-Kreuger conclusion, then manipulate those emotions to conclude that anti-GMO sentiment is unwarranted. But no part of the entire article deals with generalizations related to scientific consensus or the Dunning-Kreuger effect. Rather, the article is purely a pro-GMO propaganda piece designed to benefit Monsanto-Bayer.