So any reason why all these labels dont giv consumer what consumers want?
This suit comes right on the heels of a study which concludes that lawsuits do nothing to prevent illegal copying, but that illegal copies have higher consumer value than the legal copies because of stupid decisions made by music and movie producers and distributors.
My university years were good for a few things, but major career training was not one of those things.
My university degree, though, was essntial for opening doors.
Every useful thing I learned about writing software I learned on my own -- all the core, and much of the advanced, stuff I learned before I ever set foot in a classroom; all the rest after I started my first job. None of the time between those two points yielded much of anything useful, but all the desirable jobs required a 4-year degree from an accredited university.
So yes, universities are a huge scam; but most businesses are in collusion with the universities to make them, for all intents and purposes, a required rite of passage.
Fortunately, though, I had the good sense to live with my parents until well after I graduated, so I paid off my entire student debt in about six years.
There are several ways in which that statement is both true and, at least potentially, untrue at the same time.
True: 1) We have discovered no way to break what we understand to be the highest velocity at which a particle can travel: light speed.
2) No experiment we have ever conceived and/or tested has discredited (1) above.
3) There are several more, but I don't want to articulate them.
Untrue (or potentially untrue): 1) Our best understanding is that matter in the universe moved faster than light during a time following the Big Bang. This invalidates your assertion that FTL is never possible. Otherwise, matter could not have spread as far as it has in the given time since the Big Bang. This suggests that the speed of light may not be an absolute limit, but that we have no way to reproduce it. See (1) under the True heading. A sufficiently advanced civilization may, hypothetically speaking, possess such technology. This, if it exists, is so far beyond the state of our knowledge as to be indistinguishable from magic.
2) Reproducing the effects of FTL, without actually moving at FTL speeds, is an acceptable alternative. A sufficiently advanced civilization may, hypothetically speaking, possess such technology. This, if it exists, is so far beyond the state of our knowledge as to be indistinguishable from magic.
3) Again, there are several more, but I don't want to articulate them.
Things like SELinux or Mac's Gatekeeper or any Unix-type OS can be set so that only specific applications have access to certain hardware.
I wouldn't trust Mac, as it's closed source. But I don't blindly trust my Linux-based systems, either, as they run on closed hardware. Comey and the Three Letter Agencies have made open hardware all the more necessary.
You're under the impression that sanitation equals pristine measures, which isn't the case. Sanitation means cleanliness. Most of the measures undertaken to eliminate Malaria in Sri Lanka involved cleanliness. That's not to say that this form of sanitation is without repercussions (perhaps the sprays cause cancer); but yes, most of the measures described in the article involve sanitation.
Nowhere in the article did it mention Primaquine. But even if the drug was involved, it doesn't detract from the sanitation effort one bit. The drug was one prong of a multifacted approach, and was used where the infection occurred before the sanitation efforts were undertaken. The drug will be largely, if not completely, unnecessary now.
Where I work, the Surface has exactly one benefit: our Java programs can be installed on it as if it were just another computer. But once Android has that ability, the Surface's one advantage will evaporate; leaving only downsides.
...and the resounding success that our "meddling" has yielded so far -- clothing, farming, animal husbandry, domesticated fire, water purification, and so on -- I find it a bit depressing that the "meddling with nature" trope still gets any traction at all.
There is a HUGE difference between developing external technologies and altering internals that we don't understand. I would put human understanding of human biology somewhere between.05% and.07%. We can't even create relatively simple medicines that don't have side effects, or create replacements for relatively simple organs without risking death, or manufacture basic replacement parts that actually work, and you're all for altering our foundational existence?
That's insane. You've been watching way too much TV.
Autonomous weapon systems, while being an issue that needs consideration, are far less of a concern than autonomous job killers. Putting people out of work, without a means to quickly repurpose them at equal or better pay, is far more dangerous to a civilized society than the very primitive state of so-called "artificial intelligence".
The risks of families starving and being homeless are far greater than the risks of families being killed by military drones.
OpenOffice died the moment LibreOffice forked it. The ghost of OpenOffice.org just didn't know it was dead. When most of your major developers leave to carry on a competing project, the prior project dies.
Most IDE's (and some better text editors) have options to convert from spaces to tabs, and from tabs to spaces. Choose your preference, select "reformat" and get on with the job of writing software.
The debate was interesting back when all we had were dumb text editors, but it's entirely pointless now.
So Comey wants to eliminate one of our biggest protections against organized crime, pedophiles, Federal agencies acting illegally, and other forms of criminals. Who on Earth can promote such an agenda, while claiming to be protecting Americans, other that someone with an agenda similar to those he is claiming to fight?
His arguments are highly illogical at face value, but make perfect sense as a means to harm America from the inside. Prior to Snowden, when we buried our collective heads in the sands of denial about illegal Federal behavior, I could have assumed that Comey at least had our best interests at heart. But now I must assume that his agenda is to continue harming us.
You and I have completely different experiences. I've had to maintain people's C# code, and it's no better than Java, and is frequently so obtuse as to be a bad joke. It has a whole set of solutions solving problems that don't exist, except in the minds of bad programmers, but completely lacks the cross-platform benefits of Java.
Java's cross-platform powers far exceed the minor (and most are very minor, to the point of insignificance) problems the platform has. Of the dozens of languages/platforms I've learned and forgotten over the years, Java hits a sweet spot that nothing else has come close to touching. It's unfortunate, because Oracle is a decayed, green, rotten donkey dick; but the GPL compensates for that.
It's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding Google's strategy here, but if the summary is correct (the summary contains the vast majority of the article, which, yes, I read), this is a profoundly idiotic move on Google's part. Not necessarily dropping the Nexus name, as that's very minor, but moving away from stock Android. One of the primary appeals of the Nexus was the complete and total lack of crapware.
I'm going to reserve final judgment until I see more of what Google is doing with its phone brand, as I have a hard time believing that Google's Android division is being run by morons.
There must be more to this than the story indicates.
Where I work, writing a SQL query flies over the heads of the majority of product managers and business analysts.
This is pretty close to the core of a problem that can't be fixed with drag and drop tools. The core problem isn't writing code. That's the easy part that anyone can learn. The real problem is analysis, a skill that very few people (relative to the business population) have. All the code generators in the world won't solve that problem.
A good developer isn't a good developer because he can write code. He is a good developer because he can integrate the components of a system into a coherent whole. No programming automation system will magically teach someone how to do that.
As you've said before, we've seen this promise come and go more than once in the last 30 years. Like "cloud computing" and the dot bomb, this fad will peak and fall.
The type of land is secondary, and is only significant once the water arrives. It may (or may not) make the flooding worse, but flooding would occur regardless.
If I may, and even if I mayn't, I'm going to rant about the same thing I always rant about in these stories: usability.
You and I use very different Linux's. There are only two reasons I go to the command line in Kubuntu:
1) To secure shell into another Linux computer.
2) To install a driver that Linux doesn't support out of the box.
The first one is something that the vast majority of new Linux users would never do, unless they come to Linux specifically for that purpose. The second one is something that the vast majority of users never do under any operating system without help.
I haven't had to compile a kernel in probably ten years or more.
Your entire rant is incomprehensible nonsense in the context of Kubuntu (and probably others).
Comcast is delusional if it thinks speed is the major bottleneck between subscribers and happiness. It is but one of many issues, though it is somewhat significant. By far, the bigger issues are:
1) Price. High speed Internet access in America is way over priced, and way under-delivered.
2) Lack of choices. We need the municipalities to own the infrastructure, and multiple, competing private companies to administer it. It's the only model that works.
3) Availability. High speed Internet is available in probably 10% (or less) of America, despite decades of massive tax cuts to Internet providers for the sole purpose of connecting America. The corruptions needs to stop, and we need to get our money back.
It's far cheaper and more efficient if it works. I can't say for sure if it does....
It doesn't. We've been here before in the 90's, when CS and CIS degree programs were flooded by people in the field solely for the money (which dried up rather quickly with the arrival of the Dot Bomb). It ends up with the situation I had in my senior year of College/University, in which one of my classmates asked me if I could format a disk for him because he never learned how.
You're deluded if you think, "...a handful of weeks of work...", no matter how intensive, is worth anything. Hell, most graduates coming out of a four-year degree program aren't worth shit for at least six months. And that's usually just enough time to acclimate to the work environment, much less do anything useful.
This is another in a long line of fads designed to funnel government money up through the pyramid.
To be honest, anyone still using Drupal or Wordpress (or any other database-aware software that doesn't use prepared statements) has actively begged to be owned, and should probably just be placed in a job more appropriate to their skill sets (such as janitorial work).
The term "SQL Injection" should have been relegated to the history books a decade ago, as avoiding it is easier than being subject to it.
You mean that thing that was replaced by Dolphin? Someone should tell the author there's a reason why X Y and Z tools have not been renovated - usually because there are better options available.
If you're implying that Dolphin is a better file manager than Konqueror, I'm going to imply that you're insane. Konqueror beats Dolphin hands down. The first thing I do with a new KDE install is change the file manager from that piece of shit over to Konqueror. Using Dolphin is like using Windows Explorer from 1995. Talk about a major regression.
I would buy an Ubuntu phone if it didn't use Mir as the display server. This is because Mir means I can't install Java. Aside from that, Ubuntu phone looks awesome.
I don't really see anything funny or positive in the fact that one of your main intelligence services is under attack by a hostile power.
Then you're not looking very hard. This is the best possible event for the defense of online freedom, for our Government has just proven that the world's most advanced security agency can't defend against online intrusion. It is the most powerful argument for unfettered end-to-end encryption that we could have possibly hoped for.
If it is hopeless for the NSA to secure unencrypted data, then it is also hopeless for everyone else to do the same. Therefore, powerful encryption is not only wise, it is necessary. All those Congress-critters and Government agencies calling for back doors, golden keys, and weakened encryption algorithms are actively aiding and abetting terrorists, child pornographers, pedophiles, and enemy governments.
This is the smoking gun that proves the essentialness of strong end-to-end encryption.
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So any reason why all these labels dont giv consumer what consumers want?
This suit comes right on the heels of a study which concludes that lawsuits do nothing to prevent illegal copying, but that illegal copies have higher consumer value than the legal copies because of stupid decisions made by music and movie producers and distributors.
My university years were good for a few things, but major career training was not one of those things.
My university degree, though, was essntial for opening doors.
Every useful thing I learned about writing software I learned on my own -- all the core, and much of the advanced, stuff I learned before I ever set foot in a classroom; all the rest after I started my first job. None of the time between those two points yielded much of anything useful, but all the desirable jobs required a 4-year degree from an accredited university.
So yes, universities are a huge scam; but most businesses are in collusion with the universities to make them, for all intents and purposes, a required rite of passage.
Fortunately, though, I had the good sense to live with my parents until well after I graduated, so I paid off my entire student debt in about six years.
Uh, FTL travel is not possible. Ever.
There are several ways in which that statement is both true and, at least potentially, untrue at the same time.
True:
1) We have discovered no way to break what we understand to be the highest velocity at which a particle can travel: light speed.
2) No experiment we have ever conceived and/or tested has discredited (1) above.
3) There are several more, but I don't want to articulate them.
Untrue (or potentially untrue):
1) Our best understanding is that matter in the universe moved faster than light during a time following the Big Bang. This invalidates your assertion that FTL is never possible. Otherwise, matter could not have spread as far as it has in the given time since the Big Bang. This suggests that the speed of light may not be an absolute limit, but that we have no way to reproduce it. See (1) under the True heading. A sufficiently advanced civilization may, hypothetically speaking, possess such technology. This, if it exists, is so far beyond the state of our knowledge as to be indistinguishable from magic.
2) Reproducing the effects of FTL, without actually moving at FTL speeds, is an acceptable alternative. A sufficiently advanced civilization may, hypothetically speaking, possess such technology. This, if it exists, is so far beyond the state of our knowledge as to be indistinguishable from magic.
3) Again, there are several more, but I don't want to articulate them.
Things like SELinux or Mac's Gatekeeper or any Unix-type OS can be set so that only specific applications have access to certain hardware.
I wouldn't trust Mac, as it's closed source. But I don't blindly trust my Linux-based systems, either, as they run on closed hardware. Comey and the Three Letter Agencies have made open hardware all the more necessary.
That is called, "Slander of Title."
You're under the impression that sanitation equals pristine measures, which isn't the case. Sanitation means cleanliness. Most of the measures undertaken to eliminate Malaria in Sri Lanka involved cleanliness. That's not to say that this form of sanitation is without repercussions (perhaps the sprays cause cancer); but yes, most of the measures described in the article involve sanitation.
Nowhere in the article did it mention Primaquine. But even if the drug was involved, it doesn't detract from the sanitation effort one bit. The drug was one prong of a multifacted approach, and was used where the infection occurred before the sanitation efforts were undertaken. The drug will be largely, if not completely, unnecessary now.
Where I work, the Surface has exactly one benefit: our Java programs can be installed on it as if it were just another computer. But once Android has that ability, the Surface's one advantage will evaporate; leaving only downsides.
So once again, sanitation eliminates disease. Shocking how that works.
...and the resounding success that our "meddling" has yielded so far -- clothing, farming, animal husbandry, domesticated fire, water purification, and so on -- I find it a bit depressing that the "meddling with nature" trope still gets any traction at all.
There is a HUGE difference between developing external technologies and altering internals that we don't understand. I would put human understanding of human biology somewhere between .05% and .07%. We can't even create relatively simple medicines that don't have side effects, or create replacements for relatively simple organs without risking death, or manufacture basic replacement parts that actually work, and you're all for altering our foundational existence?
That's insane. You've been watching way too much TV.
Autonomous weapon systems, while being an issue that needs consideration, are far less of a concern than autonomous job killers. Putting people out of work, without a means to quickly repurpose them at equal or better pay, is far more dangerous to a civilized society than the very primitive state of so-called "artificial intelligence".
The risks of families starving and being homeless are far greater than the risks of families being killed by military drones.
OpenOffice died the moment LibreOffice forked it. The ghost of OpenOffice.org just didn't know it was dead. When most of your major developers leave to carry on a competing project, the prior project dies.
Most IDE's (and some better text editors) have options to convert from spaces to tabs, and from tabs to spaces. Choose your preference, select "reformat" and get on with the job of writing software.
The debate was interesting back when all we had were dumb text editors, but it's entirely pointless now.
So Comey wants to eliminate one of our biggest protections against organized crime, pedophiles, Federal agencies acting illegally, and other forms of criminals. Who on Earth can promote such an agenda, while claiming to be protecting Americans, other that someone with an agenda similar to those he is claiming to fight?
His arguments are highly illogical at face value, but make perfect sense as a means to harm America from the inside. Prior to Snowden, when we buried our collective heads in the sands of denial about illegal Federal behavior, I could have assumed that Comey at least had our best interests at heart. But now I must assume that his agenda is to continue harming us.
You and I have completely different experiences. I've had to maintain people's C# code, and it's no better than Java, and is frequently so obtuse as to be a bad joke. It has a whole set of solutions solving problems that don't exist, except in the minds of bad programmers, but completely lacks the cross-platform benefits of Java.
Java's cross-platform powers far exceed the minor (and most are very minor, to the point of insignificance) problems the platform has. Of the dozens of languages/platforms I've learned and forgotten over the years, Java hits a sweet spot that nothing else has come close to touching. It's unfortunate, because Oracle is a decayed, green, rotten donkey dick; but the GPL compensates for that.
It's entirely possible that I'm misunderstanding Google's strategy here, but if the summary is correct (the summary contains the vast majority of the article, which, yes, I read), this is a profoundly idiotic move on Google's part. Not necessarily dropping the Nexus name, as that's very minor, but moving away from stock Android. One of the primary appeals of the Nexus was the complete and total lack of crapware.
I'm going to reserve final judgment until I see more of what Google is doing with its phone brand, as I have a hard time believing that Google's Android division is being run by morons.
There must be more to this than the story indicates.
Where I work, writing a SQL query flies over the heads of the majority of product managers and business analysts.
This is pretty close to the core of a problem that can't be fixed with drag and drop tools. The core problem isn't writing code. That's the easy part that anyone can learn. The real problem is analysis, a skill that very few people (relative to the business population) have. All the code generators in the world won't solve that problem.
A good developer isn't a good developer because he can write code. He is a good developer because he can integrate the components of a system into a coherent whole. No programming automation system will magically teach someone how to do that.
As you've said before, we've seen this promise come and go more than once in the last 30 years. Like "cloud computing" and the dot bomb, this fad will peak and fall.
The type of land is secondary, and is only significant once the water arrives. It may (or may not) make the flooding worse, but flooding would occur regardless.
If I may, and even if I mayn't, I'm going to rant about the same thing I always rant about in these stories: usability.
You and I use very different Linux's. There are only two reasons I go to the command line in Kubuntu:
1) To secure shell into another Linux computer.
2) To install a driver that Linux doesn't support out of the box.
The first one is something that the vast majority of new Linux users would never do, unless they come to Linux specifically for that purpose. The second one is something that the vast majority of users never do under any operating system without help.
I haven't had to compile a kernel in probably ten years or more.
Your entire rant is incomprehensible nonsense in the context of Kubuntu (and probably others).
Comcast is delusional if it thinks speed is the major bottleneck between subscribers and happiness. It is but one of many issues, though it is somewhat significant. By far, the bigger issues are:
1) Price. High speed Internet access in America is way over priced, and way under-delivered.
2) Lack of choices. We need the municipalities to own the infrastructure, and multiple, competing private companies to administer it. It's the only model that works.
3) Availability. High speed Internet is available in probably 10% (or less) of America, despite decades of massive tax cuts to Internet providers for the sole purpose of connecting America. The corruptions needs to stop, and we need to get our money back.
It's far cheaper and more efficient if it works. I can't say for sure if it does....
It doesn't. We've been here before in the 90's, when CS and CIS degree programs were flooded by people in the field solely for the money (which dried up rather quickly with the arrival of the Dot Bomb). It ends up with the situation I had in my senior year of College/University, in which one of my classmates asked me if I could format a disk for him because he never learned how.
You're deluded if you think, "...a handful of weeks of work...", no matter how intensive, is worth anything. Hell, most graduates coming out of a four-year degree program aren't worth shit for at least six months. And that's usually just enough time to acclimate to the work environment, much less do anything useful.
This is another in a long line of fads designed to funnel government money up through the pyramid.
To be honest, anyone still using Drupal or Wordpress (or any other database-aware software that doesn't use prepared statements) has actively begged to be owned, and should probably just be placed in a job more appropriate to their skill sets (such as janitorial work).
The term "SQL Injection" should have been relegated to the history books a decade ago, as avoiding it is easier than being subject to it.
You mean that thing that was replaced by Dolphin? Someone should tell the author there's a reason why X Y and Z tools have not been renovated - usually because there are better options available.
If you're implying that Dolphin is a better file manager than Konqueror, I'm going to imply that you're insane. Konqueror beats Dolphin hands down. The first thing I do with a new KDE install is change the file manager from that piece of shit over to Konqueror. Using Dolphin is like using Windows Explorer from 1995. Talk about a major regression.
I would buy an Ubuntu phone if it didn't use Mir as the display server. This is because Mir means I can't install Java. Aside from that, Ubuntu phone looks awesome.
I don't really see anything funny or positive in the fact that one of your main intelligence services is under attack by a hostile power.
Then you're not looking very hard. This is the best possible event for the defense of online freedom, for our Government has just proven that the world's most advanced security agency can't defend against online intrusion. It is the most powerful argument for unfettered end-to-end encryption that we could have possibly hoped for.
If it is hopeless for the NSA to secure unencrypted data, then it is also hopeless for everyone else to do the same. Therefore, powerful encryption is not only wise, it is necessary. All those Congress-critters and Government agencies calling for back doors, golden keys, and weakened encryption algorithms are actively aiding and abetting terrorists, child pornographers, pedophiles, and enemy governments.
This is the smoking gun that proves the essentialness of strong end-to-end encryption.
for netflix viewers: ignore this update, you already likely see netflix on an embedded linux television.
Speak for yourself. Netflix is the only reason I fire up Chrome. Otherwise, Firefox is my browser of choice.