Web and Internet are capitalized because they both are proper nouns. Not capitalizing them doesn't make sense. It's like not capitalizing Mike or Angela, or not capitalizing Chicago or Detroit. People, places, and things (and adjectives derived from them) are capitalized.
I agree that Netflix's original content is very good. My kids have latched on to Puss In Boots, and I watch it with them because of the adult humor disguised as child humor. I was shocked to discover that it was a Netflix original series, as it is very good within its genre.
The sleezy law firm representing SCO and Oracle contracted with SCO to represent them through all appeals for the up-front payment of $20M that SCO paid.
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed.
Partially true, but not much. People use applications, not operating systems. The main reason that people are not running Linux is that they are tied to Windows-only applications. Migrating people to Free apps on Windows makes the transition to Linux fairly easy.
And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops....
This is complete and utter bullshit. Installing Linux is almost trivially easy, and has been for years. It does all the work for you, if you're using a desktop distribution like Kubuntu.
Because the spec for email address is is ridiculously complex.
Having written a host name and domain name validator from RFC's, I have to disagree. The specifications are fairly simple and straight forward. Very detailed, but fairly simple.
Programmers who write database-aware programs that choke on the literal words, "null", "blank", or whose programs can't accept an apostrophe are simply incompetent or just plain stupid. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of idiocy.
1) For some bizarre reason, people think he cares about them. 2) For some bizarre reason, people think he isn't lying out his ass just to win a game. 3) For some bizarre reason, people think the office of the President is somehow enabled to achieve Trump's lies. 4) To paraphrase Einstein, "People are Fucking Stupid."
I think it's about time that IT administrators that allow Windows to directly access critical information are held accountable as accomplices to the crime. We are at least a decade beyond the point where there is some type of excuse, even a feeble one, for this kind of negligence.
Closing access to the security and bug repositories to all but paying customers is understandable in Redhat's case, and isn't a factor for my workplace dumping Redhat. We have a few reasons (in no particular order):
1) License tracking is license tracking, regardless of whether it's Redhat, Microsoft, or Oracle. The major appeal of Free (and Open Source) software is not having to report to anyone.
2) We don't use Redhat support for anything other than software updates. The few times we used Redhat support for problem solving, the support personnel knew less about the problem space than we did. This is typical of most paid support.
3) With Redhat, there is no freedom to fire up a new virtual (or physical) server without significant additional cost, just like with non-Free software.
We're migrating everything over to Debian.
Debian's structure is more sane and consistent, is easier to manage, allows us to retain our freedom, and allows for unrestricted flexibility, including the ability to scale services up and down as we see fit. Not to mention, every issue we've ever had with Debian was answered on a public forum.
I think it's great that Redhat has become so successful, and wish them the best of luck in the future. I hope the door doesn't hit them on their way out.
Patents are anything but that. In fact they tell the world exactly how you do something.
That is what they're supposed to do, but patent applications are so obtuse nowadays that very few people skilled in their respective fields can understand what the patented "invention" actually does.
Governments are not allowed to take donations, and many (if not all) of the issues addressed are Government issues. Governments take in money from taxes, so the only way for governments to get more money is to raise taxes.
Reactionary types have poisoned the word in the popular vernacular.
I'm sure there was a similar discussion when people first started objecting to Uranium in drinking water, when Uranium was first discovered. It was hailed as having many health benefits by those selling it. Now it's considered assanine, as will eventually be the case with GMO.
None of the reasons given in the article are even close to the reasons I don't take the bus. Some of them exist on my list of reasons not to take the bus, but they are statistical noise compared to my top reasons:
1) Other person 1 on the bus. 2) Other person 2 on the bus. 3) Other person 3 on the bus. . . n) Other person n on the bus. n+1) Getting from point A to point B on a bus takes forever. My newborn baby will be graduating from college first.
[A]nd the other 2 who have actual experience with AI and know how shitty it still is, laugh at him[.]
Bingo. Artificial intelligence of the modern age is an absurd oxymoron. Give it another couple hundred years or so, and it *might* be able to design and write programs as well as an 8 year-old child.
The people afraid of A.I. usurping their programming jobs must be absolute wretched at their jobs.
That is always a concern with Windows, regardless of version. There is just no way to know what its doing behind your back, even if you can spend the many man-lifetimes needed to reverse engineer every circumstance that could possible lead to a transmission back to Microsoft.
I used Qt extensively for years. Qt >= 4.0 is LGPL (unless that's been changed when I wasn't looking), meaning you are free to use it for closed-source purposes as long as you don't modify the library itself.
That being said, I find Java to be much better than Qt for desktop software in almost every way.
Now, as usage and awareness expands, I am see warnings, popups and outright refusal to serve me content if my ad blocking software is enabled.
That's actually good news, as the Web sites themselves take care of the culling that is so badly needed on the Web. It's one fewer Web site that you need to waste your time on.
Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the Web prior to its rampant commercialization, but I am. It was a vastly more pleasant experience.
99.99% of all Web sites in the world could go away entirely without diminishing the value of the Web. The funding "problem" is an excellent argument for ad blockers.
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Web and Internet are capitalized because they both are proper nouns. Not capitalizing them doesn't make sense. It's like not capitalizing Mike or Angela, or not capitalizing Chicago or Detroit. People, places, and things (and adjectives derived from them) are capitalized.
I should also add that SCO paid its attorney fees with Novell's money.
I agree that Netflix's original content is very good. My kids have latched on to Puss In Boots, and I watch it with them because of the adult humor disguised as child humor. I was shocked to discover that it was a Netflix original series, as it is very good within its genre.
The sleezy law firm representing SCO and Oracle contracted with SCO to represent them through all appeals for the up-front payment of $20M that SCO paid.
The main reason people are not running Linux is that it is not pre-installed.
Partially true, but not much. People use applications, not operating systems. The main reason that people are not running Linux is that they are tied to Windows-only applications. Migrating people to Free apps on Windows makes the transition to Linux fairly easy.
And the next reason is that it is hard to install on modern machines, especially on laptops....
This is complete and utter bullshit. Installing Linux is almost trivially easy, and has been for years. It does all the work for you, if you're using a desktop distribution like Kubuntu.
Because the spec for email address is is ridiculously complex.
Having written a host name and domain name validator from RFC's, I have to disagree. The specifications are fairly simple and straight forward. Very detailed, but fairly simple.
Programmers who write database-aware programs that choke on the literal words, "null", "blank", or whose programs can't accept an apostrophe are simply incompetent or just plain stupid. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of idiocy.
He leads because:
1) For some bizarre reason, people think he cares about them.
2) For some bizarre reason, people think he isn't lying out his ass just to win a game.
3) For some bizarre reason, people think the office of the President is somehow enabled to achieve Trump's lies.
4) To paraphrase Einstein, "People are Fucking Stupid."
I think it's about time that IT administrators that allow Windows to directly access critical information are held accountable as accomplices to the crime. We are at least a decade beyond the point where there is some type of excuse, even a feeble one, for this kind of negligence.
Closing access to the security and bug repositories to all but paying customers is understandable in Redhat's case, and isn't a factor for my workplace dumping Redhat. We have a few reasons (in no particular order):
1) License tracking is license tracking, regardless of whether it's Redhat, Microsoft, or Oracle. The major appeal of Free (and Open Source) software is not having to report to anyone.
2) We don't use Redhat support for anything other than software updates. The few times we used Redhat support for problem solving, the support personnel knew less about the problem space than we did. This is typical of most paid support.
3) With Redhat, there is no freedom to fire up a new virtual (or physical) server without significant additional cost, just like with non-Free software.
We're migrating everything over to Debian.
Debian's structure is more sane and consistent, is easier to manage, allows us to retain our freedom, and allows for unrestricted flexibility, including the ability to scale services up and down as we see fit. Not to mention, every issue we've ever had with Debian was answered on a public forum.
I think it's great that Redhat has become so successful, and wish them the best of luck in the future. I hope the door doesn't hit them on their way out.
Patents are anything but that. In fact they tell the world exactly how you do something.
That is what they're supposed to do, but patent applications are so obtuse nowadays that very few people skilled in their respective fields can understand what the patented "invention" actually does.
Except when they are...
I stand corrected. Even New York itself (the subject of the article) has such a mechanism.
You learn something new every day.
...it seems disingenuous.
Governments are not allowed to take donations, and many (if not all) of the issues addressed are Government issues. Governments take in money from taxes, so the only way for governments to get more money is to raise taxes.
Reactionary types have poisoned the word in the popular vernacular.
I'm sure there was a similar discussion when people first started objecting to Uranium in drinking water, when Uranium was first discovered. It was hailed as having many health benefits by those selling it. Now it's considered assanine, as will eventually be the case with GMO.
Build pedestrian crossings over traffic, like we do now in many locations. Then no one has to stop for anyone.
None of the reasons given in the article are even close to the reasons I don't take the bus. Some of them exist on my list of reasons not to take the bus, but they are statistical noise compared to my top reasons:
1) Other person 1 on the bus.
2) Other person 2 on the bus.
3) Other person 3 on the bus.
.
.
n) Other person n on the bus.
n+1) Getting from point A to point B on a bus takes forever. My newborn baby will be graduating from college first.
If your system uses DKMS, then all of that is handled transparently during the upgrade process, and doesn't introduce any extra reboots.
That said, I stopped buying NVidia products once the open source AMD driver became usable for desktop workloads. Now I buy only AMD video cards.
Downloading the ads but not displaying them is still stealing and wasting my bandwidth. The best solution is to simply block them.
[A]nd the other 2 who have actual experience with AI and know how shitty it still is, laugh at him[.]
Bingo. Artificial intelligence of the modern age is an absurd oxymoron. Give it another couple hundred years or so, and it *might* be able to design and write programs as well as an 8 year-old child.
The people afraid of A.I. usurping their programming jobs must be absolute wretched at their jobs.
...which enables people to learn one technology and move platforms easier.
People would be better served by learning PostgreSQL. It's very liberating.
Unless it's been validated in a clinical study....
Clinical studies can't be trusted, either, as they have usually been co-opted by financial interests.
How do you know that info is not being sent??
That is always a concern with Windows, regardless of version. There is just no way to know what its doing behind your back, even if you can spend the many man-lifetimes needed to reverse engineer every circumstance that could possible lead to a transmission back to Microsoft.
You're always better off not using Windows.
QT is even worse.
I used Qt extensively for years. Qt >= 4.0 is LGPL (unless that's been changed when I wasn't looking), meaning you are free to use it for closed-source purposes as long as you don't modify the library itself.
That being said, I find Java to be much better than Qt for desktop software in almost every way.
Now, as usage and awareness expands, I am see warnings, popups and outright refusal to serve me content if my ad blocking software is enabled.
That's actually good news, as the Web sites themselves take care of the culling that is so badly needed on the Web. It's one fewer Web site that you need to waste your time on.
Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the Web prior to its rampant commercialization, but I am. It was a vastly more pleasant experience.
1. How do you propose funding websites
99.99% of all Web sites in the world could go away entirely without diminishing the value of the Web. The funding "problem" is an excellent argument for ad blockers.