I'm glad to hear that Red Hat has revenue sources outside of the operating system, as Red Hat is, for better or for worse, a standard-bearer for Linux. That said, we can't finish our migration away from that monstrosity fast enough.
I used to think that Debian proponents were just jealous that Red Hat was the leader, and stayed with Red Hat for years; but after having given Debian a trial-run (initially through Ubuntu, then Kubuntu, then Debian servers) several years ago, I realized how wrong that thought was. Debian servers are a breeze to manage, because everything is consistent and well thought out. Managing our remaining Red Hat servers is very painful by comparison.
[Google] can't compete with Apple if they can't offer a seamless experience.
You have me confused. Android's 86% marketshare can't complete with Apple's 14% marketshare...how?
Google buying HTC isn't so Google can compete with Apple. It's more so Google can bury Apple. The major part of of Apple's revenues come from the iPhone. A few lost percentage points of phone marketshare for Apple translates into HUGE losses for Apple.
Not intended as a troll, but a sincere question of a C-veteran of soon 20 years: why do people use Java?
I have been programming in Java since 1997, C since 1985, and C++ since 1999. I have never run into the Java versioning issue you described -- ever -- as long as I have had the highest required Java major version installed.
As for portability, Java reigns supreme. I have Java binaries I compiled in 1997 that still run, unmodified on all supported operating systems. I write major applications in Java that run in Linux, Windows, and (probably) anything else with a conformant JVM. This includes GUI, business logic, networking, mouse and keyboard, etc. I have never run into a situation where my Java program didn't work perfectly across platforms. There is very little that isn't completely portable and standardized in Java, something which doesn't exist in C, C++, and 99.9999999999999999999999% of all other platforms.
I have a coworker who believes Microsoft will soon abandon its kernel, and have Windows running on a Linux kernel with a Windows GUI sitting on top of it. While such a notion was unthinkable in the 90's and 2000's, it is becoming more plausible as time goes by.
Backups will still be available via FOIA from the Dept. of Homeland Security.
From the very instant I first read, "Department of Homeland Security," I immediately thought it seemed astoundingly like, "3rd Reich." They have given ample evidence over the years to justify that gut reaction.
Kubuntu has been my only desktop for several years, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. That said:
KDE has bad memory leaks.
The only really bad memory/CPU leak I have seen in KDE is plasmashell. I have to kill and restart it several times a day because of memory and CPU usage problems. It seems to revolve around the system tray animations. Other than that, I leave it (Kubuntu) running continuously between system upgrades. At least plasmashell can be killed and restarted without interfering with my work flow.
I have given up on PIM because akondi is a crashing POS.
Akonadi is a steaming pile of garbage; no arguments there. I abandoned kdepim for the same reasons, which really sucks because korganizer is otherwise awesome.
I totally agree with you about KIO, and had also filed a bug report against it years ago. When I need to copy files between computers, KIO is great. It is completely unsuitable for streaming, though, for the reasons you mentioned.
As far as the add-on libraries, though, I'm at a total loss as to what you're talking about.
That's fine if you're willing to pay a 200-300% markup for fewer non-smart, but useful, features (such as remote control and receiving a TV signal).
For those of us on Slashdot, smart or non-smart should not be an issue. If you don't want the smart features of the TV, block its MAC address at your firewall. Problem solved.
Make sure that your backups are encrypted (with a strong encryption method and strong keys), and just keep the drives at your office.
You have just given me the missing piece to my backup strategy, which is now:
1) Local Linux Debian server with RAID 5. 2) Separate hard drive to backup/sync with the RAID. 3) Swap backup disk once a week with second backup disk. 4) [new] Store newly disconnected drive in a locked, personal safe at work. 5) Goto 3.
Seriously, when was the last time that you spent an evening flipping through channels on cable and felt like it was a worthwhile use of time?
Your response is one of many very high quality responses to this story. The broadcast entertainment companies seem to be in complete denial about the obsolescence of their business model. The whole concept of "channels" is an anachronism that is dying with the baby boomers. Nowadays, people want to watch what they want to watch, and they want to watch it right now. There are only a few exceptions, and even those are fading away.
I've never used Sling. If it's just a repeater of TV content, including channels, time slots, and commercials, then its days are numbered, too.
But yes, this article is just a laughable commercial for Cable TV.
Anyway I wish Redhat would have bought Java and made native compilers with native heavyweight gui methods but who am I kidding?
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. We had native, heavyweight components in Java (the original AWT), but they caused major maintenance and cross-platform behavior problems. Swing was the answer, and is far superior.
They used email as their source of banking account information?! Whoever wrote a policy that said that was okay needs to never work around money ever again. That is too stupid for words.
Did he happen to ignore the popup with the big yellow exclamation mark that says: "Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes? This is IRREVERSIBLE!"
It's perfectly reasonable to interpret that prompt as meaning, "all changes since my last commit." It's a really bad prompt, and should never have been allowed into the program.
The 1-Click patent isn't technology. It's more like seeing people use a bow knot somewhere, seeing that most people tie their shoes with a permanent knot, then starting to tie your shoes with a bow knot, then patenting all uses of the bow knot.
The 1-Click patent should never have been granted, as it violated every single requirement for a patentable invention.
Call me crazy, but perhaps people don't want to pay to watch fat people? Hollywood knows its audience wants escapism more than any other form of entertainment. If we wanted to watch a bunch of fat people, we wouldn't need Hollywood. We have an abundance of those in our everyday lives.
We are Hollywood customers in part because non-fat people are the exception to the norm. Look at a show like Jessica Jones. If the lead actress (and the supporting actresses) weren't body-hot, I wouldn't have even given the show a chance (and neither would have enough people to keep the show in production). If the Jessica Jones character were played by a fat woman, the whole premise of the show would have been too unbelievable to entertain.
And the notion that men are less affected by body image than women is laughable at best. By and large, physically attractive women go for physically attractive men, with only an occasional diversion from the standard; meaning that men have to either be genetically lucky, or spend a lot of time and effort in maintaining an attractive physique -- just like women. Imagine that.
These sites can deny service to whomever they like.
While you're legally correct, that view is morally reprehensible. Once a business becomes large enough to wield more power than some governments, they need to be held to a higher standard. In a society where money equals justice, large crowd funding sites become one gatekeeper of said justice.
Or it could be that the volcanoes are more active recently and thus recently lost their glacier covering.
That's one possibility. The article states that the scientists haven't yet established how much, if any, activity there is in those volcanoes. Knowing the activity level is pretty important, and we can't draw any conclusions without that missing information.
I would not be the least bit surprised, though, to discover that the volcanoes are currently completely inactive.
While I don't use pirate sites, I applaud those who do. Those are the people who put pressure on movie studios to bring the price of movies from $100+ down to $14.95.
Piracy is an important facet of the free market. It's an indicator that the seller's product is priced too high. Everything the seller does contributes to this indicator. It can be that the seller puts too many obstacles in place for paying customers to make use of the product, making the product less valuable, or any number of things that makes the cost exceed the worth. When this happens, piracy is the relief valve.
Disney is actively encouraging movie piracy by exiting Netflix, and this will bite them in the ass for years to come. I think the market for paid streaming services is near saturation, and Disney is too late to make much of an impact.
Netflix has a bunch of Disney shows (but not movies, strangely) that I love to watch. But I have zero problems with finding something else to watch when Disney is gone. I didn't watch or enjoy those shows because they were Disney. I watched and enjoyed them because they were good.
Netflix is fully capable of making great original programming, and I will watch them when I find them.
So this company was funded purely on a 'story' no 'working prototype' at all...
They had a partially working prototype, but an inability to push it into a final product. There was also a bunch of managerial incompetence. It's interesting that the prototype that worked best was loaded with Open Source software to do the major work. It was only when the lead software "engineer" scapped it all to rewrite it himself that the product really started falling apart.
...only after they get a piss pot of money do they even try to figure out how to build it simply to discover the 'tools' (e.g. 'technology' didn't exist)
This is where you give away that you didn't bother reading the article. The technology exists, but the company didn't have the ability to integrate them into the Lily.
...anyone investing in this shouldn't get their money back as far as I'm concerned.
That's pretty jerkish to all the victims who lost money to those thieves.
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I'm glad to hear that Red Hat has revenue sources outside of the operating system, as Red Hat is, for better or for worse, a standard-bearer for Linux. That said, we can't finish our migration away from that monstrosity fast enough.
I used to think that Debian proponents were just jealous that Red Hat was the leader, and stayed with Red Hat for years; but after having given Debian a trial-run (initially through Ubuntu, then Kubuntu, then Debian servers) several years ago, I realized how wrong that thought was. Debian servers are a breeze to manage, because everything is consistent and well thought out. Managing our remaining Red Hat servers is very painful by comparison.
So two of the world's most evil companies now control the largest data pipe between continents. This is very scary for Freedom.
[Google] can't compete with Apple if they can't offer a seamless experience.
You have me confused. Android's 86% marketshare can't complete with Apple's 14% marketshare...how?
Google buying HTC isn't so Google can compete with Apple. It's more so Google can bury Apple. The major part of of Apple's revenues come from the iPhone. A few lost percentage points of phone marketshare for Apple translates into HUGE losses for Apple.
Not intended as a troll, but a sincere question of a C-veteran of soon 20 years: why do people use Java?
I have been programming in Java since 1997, C since 1985, and C++ since 1999. I have never run into the Java versioning issue you described -- ever -- as long as I have had the highest required Java major version installed.
As for portability, Java reigns supreme. I have Java binaries I compiled in 1997 that still run, unmodified on all supported operating systems. I write major applications in Java that run in Linux, Windows, and (probably) anything else with a conformant JVM. This includes GUI, business logic, networking, mouse and keyboard, etc. I have never run into a situation where my Java program didn't work perfectly across platforms. There is very little that isn't completely portable and standardized in Java, something which doesn't exist in C, C++, and 99.9999999999999999999999% of all other platforms.
I have a coworker who believes Microsoft will soon abandon its kernel, and have Windows running on a Linux kernel with a Windows GUI sitting on top of it. While such a notion was unthinkable in the 90's and 2000's, it is becoming more plausible as time goes by.
Backups will still be available via FOIA from the Dept. of Homeland Security.
From the very instant I first read, "Department of Homeland Security," I immediately thought it seemed astoundingly like, "3rd Reich." They have given ample evidence over the years to justify that gut reaction.
Kubuntu has been my only desktop for several years, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. That said:
KDE has bad memory leaks.
The only really bad memory/CPU leak I have seen in KDE is plasmashell. I have to kill and restart it several times a day because of memory and CPU usage problems. It seems to revolve around the system tray animations. Other than that, I leave it (Kubuntu) running continuously between system upgrades. At least plasmashell can be killed and restarted without interfering with my work flow.
I have given up on PIM because akondi is a crashing POS.
Akonadi is a steaming pile of garbage; no arguments there. I abandoned kdepim for the same reasons, which really sucks because korganizer is otherwise awesome.
I totally agree with you about KIO, and had also filed a bug report against it years ago. When I need to copy files between computers, KIO is great. It is completely unsuitable for streaming, though, for the reasons you mentioned.
As far as the add-on libraries, though, I'm at a total loss as to what you're talking about.
I would need to see this confirmed by a competent, reliable source.
We had Oracle throw every incentive they had at us, but we kindly showed them the door and switched to PostgreSQL. It was an awesome day.
Look for a monitor instead.
That's fine if you're willing to pay a 200-300% markup for fewer non-smart, but useful, features (such as remote control and receiving a TV signal).
For those of us on Slashdot, smart or non-smart should not be an issue. If you don't want the smart features of the TV, block its MAC address at your firewall. Problem solved.
Make sure that your backups are encrypted (with a strong encryption method and strong keys), and just keep the drives at your office.
You have just given me the missing piece to my backup strategy, which is now:
1) Local Linux Debian server with RAID 5.
2) Separate hard drive to backup/sync with the RAID.
3) Swap backup disk once a week with second backup disk.
4) [new] Store newly disconnected drive in a locked, personal safe at work.
5) Goto 3.
Seriously, when was the last time that you spent an evening flipping through channels on cable and felt like it was a worthwhile use of time?
Your response is one of many very high quality responses to this story. The broadcast entertainment companies seem to be in complete denial about the obsolescence of their business model. The whole concept of "channels" is an anachronism that is dying with the baby boomers. Nowadays, people want to watch what they want to watch, and they want to watch it right now. There are only a few exceptions, and even those are fading away.
I've never used Sling. If it's just a repeater of TV content, including channels, time slots, and commercials, then its days are numbered, too.
But yes, this article is just a laughable commercial for Cable TV.
Anyway I wish Redhat would have bought Java and made native compilers with native heavyweight gui methods but who am I kidding?
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. We had native, heavyweight components in Java (the original AWT), but they caused major maintenance and cross-platform behavior problems. Swing was the answer, and is far superior.
He never did an original commit so all changes since "last" commit is everything, just like you said.
That's an awful interpretation. If there was no original commit, then NOTHING should have been deleted. Again, VS Code did something horrendous.
They used email as their source of banking account information?! Whoever wrote a policy that said that was okay needs to never work around money ever again. That is too stupid for words.
Did he happen to ignore the popup with the big yellow exclamation mark that says:
"Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes? This is IRREVERSIBLE!"
It's perfectly reasonable to interpret that prompt as meaning, "all changes since my last commit." It's a really bad prompt, and should never have been allowed into the program.
The 1-Click patent isn't technology. It's more like seeing people use a bow knot somewhere, seeing that most people tie their shoes with a permanent knot, then starting to tie your shoes with a bow knot, then patenting all uses of the bow knot.
The 1-Click patent should never have been granted, as it violated every single requirement for a patentable invention.
Call me crazy, but perhaps people don't want to pay to watch fat people? Hollywood knows its audience wants escapism more than any other form of entertainment. If we wanted to watch a bunch of fat people, we wouldn't need Hollywood. We have an abundance of those in our everyday lives.
We are Hollywood customers in part because non-fat people are the exception to the norm. Look at a show like Jessica Jones. If the lead actress (and the supporting actresses) weren't body-hot, I wouldn't have even given the show a chance (and neither would have enough people to keep the show in production). If the Jessica Jones character were played by a fat woman, the whole premise of the show would have been too unbelievable to entertain.
And the notion that men are less affected by body image than women is laughable at best. By and large, physically attractive women go for physically attractive men, with only an occasional diversion from the standard; meaning that men have to either be genetically lucky, or spend a lot of time and effort in maintaining an attractive physique -- just like women. Imagine that.
These sites can deny service to whomever they like.
While you're legally correct, that view is morally reprehensible. Once a business becomes large enough to wield more power than some governments, they need to be held to a higher standard. In a society where money equals justice, large crowd funding sites become one gatekeeper of said justice.
On the other hand, you might alienate the few remaining Americans who support racist violence.
And on the third hand, you might alienate the few remaining Americans who believe that everyone accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial.
Or it could be that the volcanoes are more active recently and thus recently lost their glacier covering.
That's one possibility. The article states that the scientists haven't yet established how much, if any, activity there is in those volcanoes. Knowing the activity level is pretty important, and we can't draw any conclusions without that missing information.
I would not be the least bit surprised, though, to discover that the volcanoes are currently completely inactive.
Do these people even listen to themselves?
While I don't use pirate sites, I applaud those who do. Those are the people who put pressure on movie studios to bring the price of movies from $100+ down to $14.95.
Piracy is an important facet of the free market. It's an indicator that the seller's product is priced too high. Everything the seller does contributes to this indicator. It can be that the seller puts too many obstacles in place for paying customers to make use of the product, making the product less valuable, or any number of things that makes the cost exceed the worth. When this happens, piracy is the relief valve.
Disney is actively encouraging movie piracy by exiting Netflix, and this will bite them in the ass for years to come. I think the market for paid streaming services is near saturation, and Disney is too late to make much of an impact.
Netflix has a bunch of Disney shows (but not movies, strangely) that I love to watch. But I have zero problems with finding something else to watch when Disney is gone. I didn't watch or enjoy those shows because they were Disney. I watched and enjoyed them because they were good.
Netflix is fully capable of making great original programming, and I will watch them when I find them.
I suspect that manufacturers consider this a part of branding.
Undoubtedly. However, nobody buys a Lenovo phone for the custom user interface. We want the hardware and a stock, unlocked Android.
So this company was funded purely on a 'story' no 'working prototype' at all...
They had a partially working prototype, but an inability to push it into a final product. There was also a bunch of managerial incompetence. It's interesting that the prototype that worked best was loaded with Open Source software to do the major work. It was only when the lead software "engineer" scapped it all to rewrite it himself that the product really started falling apart.
...only after they get a piss pot of money do they even try to figure out how to build it simply to discover the 'tools' (e.g. 'technology' didn't exist)
This is where you give away that you didn't bother reading the article. The technology exists, but the company didn't have the ability to integrate them into the Lily.
...anyone investing in this shouldn't get their money back as far as I'm concerned.
That's pretty jerkish to all the victims who lost money to those thieves.