And yet, you're still using Windows. At this point, Microsoft knows that they own you and your laptop. Why should they care what you want when they know you will keep paying and promoting them regardless of what they do to you?
Perhaps you also think that Google shouldn't display the top level domain as well? By this logic, the top level domain is also a "trivial" part of the URL. There is clearly no discernible difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.com, right? There should be no problem, also, if Chrome shows just, "whitehouse" in the URL, because users will figure that out.
2) do you really think your *users* will be able to figure that out?
I find your second point to be doubly humorous (in a troublesome sort of way) after responding to your first point.
Browsers should not be screwing with what is displayed in the address bar. It is the browser's responsibility to faithfully display the actual contents of the address bar, not to impose its own dogma on it. I don't know if Google is trolling or not; but the whole concept of removing ANY information from the address bar is monumentally stupid, and reeks of Microsoft in the 90's.
...and start saying no to 80+ work weeks collectively.
That only works when there aren't a hundred H1B's (or other non-USA-equivalent) from shithole countries waiting to take each job. If all non-shithole-country IS/IT worker joined the union and said no to abusive working conditions, there would be only shithole country workers in IS/IT.
And no, that wouldn't convince companies to start paying high salaries for highly skilled workers. It would merely convince them to hire more shithole-country workers to fill the void.
You provide a lot of what-ifs, but leave out the most important one: what if Adobe developers were at least remotely competent at cross-platform development, and created an actual API that they would code to. Implement that API once across each supported platform, then stop worrying about it. That's cross-platform development tutorial #1.
Surely they're not so dumb as to be unable to do that.
They're not.
But doing so would remove an excuse for fleecing their customer base.
I've been hosting my own domains for a number of years now (I forgot how many), and would hate to ever have to go back to a 3rd party like gmail/Yahoo/Microsoft, etc. I usually spend about two hours from start to finish: create a Kimsufi account (I pay $12 a month for a dedicated server), install Linux, Apache, Postfix, and Dovecot, get the Let's Encrypt certificate, configure Postfix and Dovecot, create a new email account with Thunderbird, etc.
One of the largest benefits to all of this that I've experienced is spam control. I create a different email alias for every single entity with whom I exchange email, which then gets routed to my actual account (which is a non-obvious name that is very unlikely to be guessed). When I do get spam (which is rare), I know exactly where it came from so I can just disable or delete that alias.
I don't use IMAP, but rather download all of my email via POP3 to keep it away from intruders. So I don't have access to my email when I'm away from home, but that's a personal choice I made. There is nothing stopping you from using IMAP if you're okay with that.
Also, I wrote a simple script to automatically backup my server. I then periodically copy the backup to my home. If you have even marginal Linux skills, then this shouldn't be a problem. There are probably ways to automate backups, but this is the approach I've chosen.
Once the initial setup is done, maintenance for me has been minimal -- mostly starting the backups, though I could automate that too. But I'm lazy, and haven't bothered with much automation.
Apparently, Dropbox developers never bothered to learn how to create an API. My guess is that this all appears so hard to them because they never learned the simple lessons of encapsulation and polymorphism.
If you didn't support Clinton's impeachment and support Trumps, you are a piece of shit.
Clinton's impeachment was over an affair he had, and was a political witch hunt. A Trump impeachment would be over many campaign finance law violations and (possibly) election law violations.
The latter impeachment would be far more justified than the former.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that U.S. law does not apply outside U.S. soil (nor should you want it to - that would give the CIA free reign to enforce U.S. law in other countries).
There are many problems with that position, but I'll covert just one:
U.S. law does not apply outside of the U.S. borders, but neither does U.S. jurisdiction (and U.S. law only applies where the U.S. has jurisdiction). The U.S. does not have any legal authority outside of its jurisdiction. And inside U.S. jurisdiction, all Constitutional protections apply.
Cryptocurrencies won't have corrected adequately until they have a negative valuation. Whatever their greater than or equal to zero value is right now, it's still much too high.
Cryptocurrencies are completely worthless, and always have been, except to the morally bankrupt people above the bottom of the pyramid who knowingly suckered in the people below them. It stuns me how this was not obvious to everyone from the very beginning.
And the people who mortgaged their houses to burn it in the market are immense fools. My heart bleeds for them and their families, but that was immensely idiotic. My brain can't even comprehend that degree of stupid.
Which is very clearly a temporary abnormality. I've been at the same job for over 17 years. It pays decently, and is enough to support a family of four with mine as the only income, but I could make substantially more if I went somewhere else.
I won't though.
The current job market balance may be tilting in favor of employees at the moment, but that will inevitably change in the near future. And when it does, the, "last in, first out" rule will kick in. Secondly, I left my job once for higher pay, and I quickly regretted it. The bosses sucked, the technology sucked, and the people sucked, so I went back to my old job within a week. Most jobs suck, but mine strikes a great balance between responsibilities and job satisfaction that is very hard to find.
Thirdly, I watched how my employer handled its people during the Great Recession. When major cuts had to be made, "things" were drastically cut to preserve jobs. Retirees were't replaced when they retired, and some employees who wanted to retire early were given early retirement with full benefits, but not a single person was laid off. I have a job where my employer actually does value its employees, and that's very hard to find.
Being conservative in the USA means believe in individual liberty
For Christian Conservatives. All others need to surrender their rights and liberties at the alter.
natural law
Which is whatever Christian Conservative fantasies say it is at any point in time, reality be damned.
and limited government.
Unless Conservatives are in power; then the scope of Government expands with the velocity of the Big Bang. At least Federal Democrats and Federal Republicans have that in common. And who said they couldn't find common ground.
...what exactly is wrong with MySQL in your opinion?
MySQL's critical deficiencies are legion. The least of MySQL's major brain-damage revolves around silently accepting invalid data, then moving up to modifying data to fit column constraints (when the data should cause an error condition to be generated). The list goes on, but you can look those up yourself.
It didn't really surprise me that Oracle bought MySQL. Their thought process was something like, "We need a cheap, shitty database to complement our expensive, shitty database."
You'd be rightly pissed if the dealer was cheating against you[.]
The casino IS cheating against you. The casino is allowed to collect and use analytics in their war against you; but you will get kicked out, banned, and even possibly arrested for doing the same thing.
Always go to the casino with the intention of walking through the door, emptying your wallet/purse into the trashcan, and then immediately turning and leaving.
While the store-your-data-on-someone-else's-servers craze hasn't yet gotten that bad, it's just a matter of time until it does.
The school can post it online without compensation to the student or permission.
That was why, when I was in college, I did only the minimal work necessary to get the grade I wanted. I didn't put forth any reasonable effort until I got into the workforce.
The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail).
By "capital," you actually mean, "criminal." In the U.S., "capital" crimes are those that are punishable by death.
There is no such thing as a, "civil crime" in the U.S. All crimes are criminal, and most, and perhaps all, monetary-only disputes are civil.
Yep, ignorance was good enough for pappy and grandpappy, it's good enough for junior too!
And your next statement is a prime example of it.
Seriously, how many kids are going to get an education with home schooling? Other than learning that God created the world in 7 days and only likes white people?
I have three major things to say about that:
1) It is the stupidest, most ignorant perspective on home schooling to ever exist.
2) I used to think the same as you, being an atheist who thought the only reason homeschooling existed was so that Christians had an excuse to not teach their children about Evolution. But then I did some actual research on the subject, and found the anti-evolution angle to be an infinitesimally small part of home schooling.
3) My atheist wife convinced me to home school our kids, and it was the best educational decision we could have possibly made. The thought of watching my kids' intellects whither under the excruciating doldrum of public school is just too unbearable for serious consideration now.
Not only are my kids excelling at learning, they are thoroughly ENJOYING learning. This is something that gets extracted and crushed by the public school system early on.
My wife and I have also found a great balance between screen learning and hands-on learning for each of our kids, a balance which is usually impossible to find in public school.
As is usual for articles of this nature, it promotes a global mindset for a localized issue.
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I wasted SIX HOURS updating a laptop yesterday.
And yet, you're still using Windows. At this point, Microsoft knows that they own you and your laptop. Why should they care what you want when they know you will keep paying and promoting them regardless of what they do to you?
Given Google's recent history, I think the 44% that identified as Imposter is FAR too low. That should be closer to 80%.
1) WTF were you thinking...
Perhaps you also think that Google shouldn't display the top level domain as well? By this logic, the top level domain is also a "trivial" part of the URL. There is clearly no discernible difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.com, right? There should be no problem, also, if Chrome shows just, "whitehouse" in the URL, because users will figure that out.
2) do you really think your *users* will be able to figure that out?
I find your second point to be doubly humorous (in a troublesome sort of way) after responding to your first point.
Browsers should not be screwing with what is displayed in the address bar. It is the browser's responsibility to faithfully display the actual contents of the address bar, not to impose its own dogma on it. I don't know if Google is trolling or not; but the whole concept of removing ANY information from the address bar is monumentally stupid, and reeks of Microsoft in the 90's.
...and start saying no to 80+ work weeks collectively.
That only works when there aren't a hundred H1B's (or other non-USA-equivalent) from shithole countries waiting to take each job. If all non-shithole-country IS/IT worker joined the union and said no to abusive working conditions, there would be only shithole country workers in IS/IT.
And no, that wouldn't convince companies to start paying high salaries for highly skilled workers. It would merely convince them to hire more shithole-country workers to fill the void.
Please tell me more about how you will replace Photoshop with....
Actually, I do many of those things (the rest I don't need) with no significant problems. I will also raise you Kdenlive for video editing.
Software engineer / developer here. I can.
You provide a lot of what-ifs, but leave out the most important one: what if Adobe developers were at least remotely competent at cross-platform development, and created an actual API that they would code to. Implement that API once across each supported platform, then stop worrying about it. That's cross-platform development tutorial #1.
Surely they're not so dumb as to be unable to do that.
They're not.
But doing so would remove an excuse for fleecing their customer base.
I've been hosting my own domains for a number of years now (I forgot how many), and would hate to ever have to go back to a 3rd party like gmail/Yahoo/Microsoft, etc. I usually spend about two hours from start to finish: create a Kimsufi account (I pay $12 a month for a dedicated server), install Linux, Apache, Postfix, and Dovecot, get the Let's Encrypt certificate, configure Postfix and Dovecot, create a new email account with Thunderbird, etc.
One of the largest benefits to all of this that I've experienced is spam control. I create a different email alias for every single entity with whom I exchange email, which then gets routed to my actual account (which is a non-obvious name that is very unlikely to be guessed). When I do get spam (which is rare), I know exactly where it came from so I can just disable or delete that alias.
I don't use IMAP, but rather download all of my email via POP3 to keep it away from intruders. So I don't have access to my email when I'm away from home, but that's a personal choice I made. There is nothing stopping you from using IMAP if you're okay with that.
Also, I wrote a simple script to automatically backup my server. I then periodically copy the backup to my home. If you have even marginal Linux skills, then this shouldn't be a problem. There are probably ways to automate backups, but this is the approach I've chosen.
Once the initial setup is done, maintenance for me has been minimal -- mostly starting the backups, though I could automate that too. But I'm lazy, and haven't bothered with much automation.
It just requires a bit of experience....
Apparently, Dropbox developers never bothered to learn how to create an API. My guess is that this all appears so hard to them because they never learned the simple lessons of encapsulation and polymorphism.
I find it hard to care about either party when two evil companies are battling it out for the evil crown that only hurts the two evil companies.
They both suck, just in different ways.
...anyone using this technology knows it's at least 5+ years out....
I think you mistakenly dropped a zero at the end of that number.
If you didn't support Clinton's impeachment and support Trumps, you are a piece of shit.
Clinton's impeachment was over an affair he had, and was a political witch hunt. A Trump impeachment would be over many campaign finance law violations and (possibly) election law violations.
The latter impeachment would be far more justified than the former.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that U.S. law does not apply outside U.S. soil (nor should you want it to - that would give the CIA free reign to enforce U.S. law in other countries).
There are many problems with that position, but I'll covert just one:
U.S. law does not apply outside of the U.S. borders, but neither does U.S. jurisdiction (and U.S. law only applies where the U.S. has jurisdiction). The U.S. does not have any legal authority outside of its jurisdiction. And inside U.S. jurisdiction, all Constitutional protections apply.
Chrome 69 is going to suck twice as much.
Cryptocurrencies won't have corrected adequately until they have a negative valuation. Whatever their greater than or equal to zero value is right now, it's still much too high.
Cryptocurrencies are completely worthless, and always have been, except to the morally bankrupt people above the bottom of the pyramid who knowingly suckered in the people below them. It stuns me how this was not obvious to everyone from the very beginning.
And the people who mortgaged their houses to burn it in the market are immense fools. My heart bleeds for them and their families, but that was immensely idiotic. My brain can't even comprehend that degree of stupid.
This is very clearly a case of a worker's market.
Which is very clearly a temporary abnormality. I've been at the same job for over 17 years. It pays decently, and is enough to support a family of four with mine as the only income, but I could make substantially more if I went somewhere else.
I won't though.
The current job market balance may be tilting in favor of employees at the moment, but that will inevitably change in the near future. And when it does, the, "last in, first out" rule will kick in. Secondly, I left my job once for higher pay, and I quickly regretted it. The bosses sucked, the technology sucked, and the people sucked, so I went back to my old job within a week. Most jobs suck, but mine strikes a great balance between responsibilities and job satisfaction that is very hard to find.
Thirdly, I watched how my employer handled its people during the Great Recession. When major cuts had to be made, "things" were drastically cut to preserve jobs. Retirees were't replaced when they retired, and some employees who wanted to retire early were given early retirement with full benefits, but not a single person was laid off. I have a job where my employer actually does value its employees, and that's very hard to find.
Bitcoin will reach an appropriate value when it falls to zero.
Being conservative in the USA means believe in individual liberty
For Christian Conservatives. All others need to surrender their rights and liberties at the alter.
natural law
Which is whatever Christian Conservative fantasies say it is at any point in time, reality be damned.
and limited government.
Unless Conservatives are in power; then the scope of Government expands with the velocity of the Big Bang. At least Federal Democrats and Federal Republicans have that in common. And who said they couldn't find common ground.
This is slashdot after all and free software is somehow always superior over proprietary.
I know I didn't say so in my original posting, but PostgreSQL is massively superior to Oracle. MySQL, specifically, it even worse than Oracle, though.
...what exactly is wrong with MySQL in your opinion?
MySQL's critical deficiencies are legion. The least of MySQL's major brain-damage revolves around silently accepting invalid data, then moving up to modifying data to fit column constraints (when the data should cause an error condition to be generated). The list goes on, but you can look those up yourself.
It didn't really surprise me that Oracle bought MySQL. Their thought process was something like, "We need a cheap, shitty database to complement our expensive, shitty database."
You'd be rightly pissed if the dealer was cheating against you[.]
The casino IS cheating against you. The casino is allowed to collect and use analytics in their war against you; but you will get kicked out, banned, and even possibly arrested for doing the same thing.
Always go to the casino with the intention of walking through the door, emptying your wallet/purse into the trashcan, and then immediately turning and leaving.
While the store-your-data-on-someone-else's-servers craze hasn't yet gotten that bad, it's just a matter of time until it does.
Unfortunately there are no other choices besides Microsoft and Amazon's cloud DynoDB.
There's your first mistake.
No geeks Mysql is not the same thing nor close...
The thought of using MySQL for anything even remotely important should be enough to get someone fired and/or prosecuted.
...so don't bother bringing that up as these large customers use financial and AI reporting tools and APIs and not just simple SQL statements.
What do you think these reporting tools are sending to the database, if not SQL?
This was user error, not a systems error. An AWS employee fucked up.
I disagree. The "storing your data on someone else's servers" craze makes configuration so hard that not even the vendor can get it right.
The school can post it online without compensation to the student or permission.
That was why, when I was in college, I did only the minimal work necessary to get the grade I wanted. I didn't put forth any reasonable effort until I got into the workforce.
The only real difference is weather it is a capital crime ( aka punishable by the government and jail) or a civil crime ( aka I can sue you for money but you won't go to jail).
By "capital," you actually mean, "criminal." In the U.S., "capital" crimes are those that are punishable by death.
There is no such thing as a, "civil crime" in the U.S. All crimes are criminal, and most, and perhaps all, monetary-only disputes are civil.
Yep, ignorance was good enough for pappy and grandpappy, it's good enough for junior too!
And your next statement is a prime example of it.
Seriously, how many kids are going to get an education with home schooling? Other than learning that God created the world in 7 days and only likes white people?
I have three major things to say about that:
1) It is the stupidest, most ignorant perspective on home schooling to ever exist.
2) I used to think the same as you, being an atheist who thought the only reason homeschooling existed was so that Christians had an excuse to not teach their children about Evolution. But then I did some actual research on the subject, and found the anti-evolution angle to be an infinitesimally small part of home schooling.
3) My atheist wife convinced me to home school our kids, and it was the best educational decision we could have possibly made. The thought of watching my kids' intellects whither under the excruciating doldrum of public school is just too unbearable for serious consideration now.
Not only are my kids excelling at learning, they are thoroughly ENJOYING learning. This is something that gets extracted and crushed by the public school system early on.
My wife and I have also found a great balance between screen learning and hands-on learning for each of our kids, a balance which is usually impossible to find in public school.
As is usual for articles of this nature, it promotes a global mindset for a localized issue.