Don't listen to him. Stick to your ways and keep contributing to F/OSS. If the "old school" tools are used and maintained, then they are still alive. Keep coding, and keep using your computer.
One day when all those iDevices are obsolete, and can't be upgraded or used because of their proprietary lock in mechanisms, you'll be laughing from your throne as you did not allow yourself or your utilities to become useless.
The best advise I can give to you is to not give into proprietary hardware just because it is shiny and new. You'll find yourself replacing everything every two years, and pouring money into the coughers of corporations. You'll become more dependent on the grace of other companies, and at the mercy of others.
Don't try to be hip, and don't run with the crowd just because it's there.
Money is transferred by by selling goods for a product unrelated to the product being sold. This is the basis of trade. In the cast of both art and software, time is being made into money for services rendered. In a world of pure trade, the software industry would not be able to exist, as software guys are not seen as valuable by people of labor. The existence of large companies that puts space between the software guys and the bulk of society allow for complex hardware and software to happen. Without money, there would be no value associated with a software person that works for months on end with no tangible result at the end, much less working for perpetuity. Without large corporations to fund Free/Open Source Software, the ecosystem of open source would be completely different, as the bulk of open source developers are paid. There is nothing wrong with an artist purchasing a product like photoshop. If GIMP wanted to be taken seriously, they would find a way to find the open source project to get not only developers on board, but people to find out what makes great software great for artists. They need to hire project managers, artists, and developers. All of which cost money. It is what makes the world go round.
This is the first time that I've seen someone talk about President Obama and Executive Orders in a way that makes sense. It is my understanding that Executive Orders have to do with the internal operations of the government, not as a mechanism of usurping congress when it comes to laws that have an effect on the American public.
It doesn't make any sense to use your device when your steering wheel and head unit have controls, but there should be a standard for controlling media devices, and MTP is a locked down proprietary Microsoft standard that isn't what we all want in our vehicles.
There is no reason to have all of this junk in a new car. The only thing one needs is a USB charging port and an aux in for the smartphone to play audio through the cars audio system. Anything else the car does will be done poorly and until more standardization ensues, shouldn't be done. Where there is standardization, there is prosperity (USB, 3.5mm audio, Bluetooth, 12V power plugs)
If the military's current network gets 2.4Gb/sec, I wonder how Google Fiber is offering 1Gb/sec to end users for such a low rate? How are they getting all this data to the backbone, and how are they actually getting 1Gb/sec to these people? Are they just touting the interface speed knowing that it won't be utilized to just scare the larger ISPs and manipulate the market?
People are going to do neither of these things. They will just type "Amazon" into their search/address bar hybrid, which is pretty much just a GoogleSpyBar now, where page ranks are what the difference between your bank and a phishing site are.
Maybe Google will start allowing people to purchase their names so that a search for "Amazon" goes to amazon.com versus a search landing page.
A success of this would be to launch a campaign against Facebook. Every time we put a "Like us on Facebook" for sticker on a business, we are just making them stronger. The idea would be to lean more towards the "Find us on the web", and a smaller sticker detailing why.
The solution to this is that all the legitimate businesses need to erase their presence on Facebook, and leave only the scammers on the site. Facebook has the attitude that we need them more than they need us. Legitimate business needs to move back to the World Wide Web. The problem of social media should be solved through some sort of de-centralized protocol such as e-mail, and certificate authorities should solve the problem of identification.
This is simply Facebook shooting themselves in the foot. Whenever somebody visits a Facebook page, they can normally be assured that the page in question is actually the company or person that it is claiming to be.
I've noticed a barrage of fake Facebook pages for Apple and other companies that are touting fake giveaways and other scans. Facebook's walled garden is infected with impostors and they don't seem to be doing anything about it. Personally, I don't trust any site without an EV-SSL certificate. Though the method is criticized, and not perfect, I believe it is the best compromise we currently have on a de-centralizized authority to show that people on the web are who they claim to be.
Facebook had a great opportunity to be a safe haven where you would know the the people around you are who they claim, but in the process of shoveling everyone in and keeping it Free, they've ended up with a real fundamental problem.
I have a hard time believing that they will make all their revenue on hardware alone. They will have access to search and activity data combined with a feed that shows people's whereabouts and habits. This marketing data will be worth way more than any direct advertising.
Dumping more money into a problem or idea doesn't automatically solve it. I'd say that NASA has a fair budget, and they always seem to get the money they need; especially if the idea is a well thought out one.
I know that it's April 1st, but can we make these articles at least a LITTLE believable? That's the whole point in getting the "... gotcha!" at the end.
In all seriousness, this is something we all probably don't do enough. How good are the backups if you can't restore from them? Do you really want the first time you verify your backups to be after a disaster?
That's the inherent problem with investing. If the stock does really well, you would have wished that you had bought more. If you sell the stock and it keeps climbing, you would have wished that you would have waited. If the stock tanks, well you get the point. No matter what, you can never be happy as an investor.
Doing that to a thousand hard drives seems fun, but whenever you look at the practicality of it, you quickly realize that a $10,000 degausser isn't that bad of a deal whenever it can wipe a drive in six seconds rather than trying to do it in hours by writing zeros over it.
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Don't listen to him. Stick to your ways and keep contributing to F/OSS. If the "old school" tools are used and maintained, then they are still alive. Keep coding, and keep using your computer.
One day when all those iDevices are obsolete, and can't be upgraded or used because of their proprietary lock in mechanisms, you'll be laughing from your throne as you did not allow yourself or your utilities to become useless.
The best advise I can give to you is to not give into proprietary hardware just because it is shiny and new. You'll find yourself replacing everything every two years, and pouring money into the coughers of corporations. You'll become more dependent on the grace of other companies, and at the mercy of others.
Don't try to be hip, and don't run with the crowd just because it's there.
Keywords are carefully and modulate.
This is why I expect vegetarians, or at least the extreme vegans to protest it. A lot of them protest milk/etc as it is created with "animal labor".
Money is transferred by by selling goods for a product unrelated to the product being sold. This is the basis of trade. In the cast of both art and software, time is being made into money for services rendered. In a world of pure trade, the software industry would not be able to exist, as software guys are not seen as valuable by people of labor. The existence of large companies that puts space between the software guys and the bulk of society allow for complex hardware and software to happen. Without money, there would be no value associated with a software person that works for months on end with no tangible result at the end, much less working for perpetuity. Without large corporations to fund Free/Open Source Software, the ecosystem of open source would be completely different, as the bulk of open source developers are paid. There is nothing wrong with an artist purchasing a product like photoshop. If GIMP wanted to be taken seriously, they would find a way to find the open source project to get not only developers on board, but people to find out what makes great software great for artists. They need to hire project managers, artists, and developers. All of which cost money. It is what makes the world go round.
This is the first time that I've seen someone talk about President Obama and Executive Orders in a way that makes sense. It is my understanding that Executive Orders have to do with the internal operations of the government, not as a mechanism of usurping congress when it comes to laws that have an effect on the American public.
Probably not a lot of people signing other people, as the registration is $38.00. 78,000+ applications? Do the math.
This should be exposed for what it is, a quick marketing and money grab.
Slashdot is just a slave to their scheme by publicizing it's lies.
Creative professionals would rather pay Adobe $1,000.00 than have to learn how to write software.
It doesn't make any sense to use your device when your steering wheel and head unit have controls, but there should be a standard for controlling media devices, and MTP is a locked down proprietary Microsoft standard that isn't what we all want in our vehicles.
There is no reason to have all of this junk in a new car. The only thing one needs is a USB charging port and an aux in for the smartphone to play audio through the cars audio system. Anything else the car does will be done poorly and until more standardization ensues, shouldn't be done. Where there is standardization, there is prosperity (USB, 3.5mm audio, Bluetooth, 12V power plugs)
If the military's current network gets 2.4Gb/sec, I wonder how Google Fiber is offering 1Gb/sec to end users for such a low rate? How are they getting all this data to the backbone, and how are they actually getting 1Gb/sec to these people? Are they just touting the interface speed knowing that it won't be utilized to just scare the larger ISPs and manipulate the market?
People are going to do neither of these things. They will just type "Amazon" into their search/address bar hybrid, which is pretty much just a GoogleSpyBar now, where page ranks are what the difference between your bank and a phishing site are.
Maybe Google will start allowing people to purchase their names so that a search for "Amazon" goes to amazon.com versus a search landing page.
Do no evil.(tm)
A success of this would be to launch a campaign against Facebook. Every time we put a "Like us on Facebook" for sticker on a business, we are just making them stronger. The idea would be to lean more towards the "Find us on the web", and a smaller sticker detailing why.
The solution to this is that all the legitimate businesses need to erase their presence on Facebook, and leave only the scammers on the site. Facebook has the attitude that we need them more than they need us. Legitimate business needs to move back to the World Wide Web. The problem of social media should be solved through some sort of de-centralized protocol such as e-mail, and certificate authorities should solve the problem of identification.
This is simply Facebook shooting themselves in the foot. Whenever somebody visits a Facebook page, they can normally be assured that the page in question is actually the company or person that it is claiming to be.
I've noticed a barrage of fake Facebook pages for Apple and other companies that are touting fake giveaways and other scans. Facebook's walled garden is infected with impostors and they don't seem to be doing anything about it. Personally, I don't trust any site without an EV-SSL certificate. Though the method is criticized, and not perfect, I believe it is the best compromise we currently have on a de-centralizized authority to show that people on the web are who they claim to be.
Facebook had a great opportunity to be a safe haven where you would know the the people around you are who they claim, but in the process of shoveling everyone in and keeping it Free, they've ended up with a real fundamental problem.
Avro also had a "flying saucer" that they did for the US Military.
From the docudrama: "and we're developing a flying saucer!"
I have a hard time believing that they will make all their revenue on hardware alone. They will have access to search and activity data combined with a feed that shows people's whereabouts and habits. This marketing data will be worth way more than any direct advertising.
We need a flag or something for these seven digiters.
Dumping more money into a problem or idea doesn't automatically solve it. I'd say that NASA has a fair budget, and they always seem to get the money they need; especially if the idea is a well thought out one.
HTML 5.1 needs a TeX tag... I'd do anything to see it. What's stopping it from happening? Someone should fork WebKit and do it.
I know that it's April 1st, but can we make these articles at least a LITTLE believable? That's the whole point in getting the "... gotcha!" at the end.
That's the April Fools joke! Duh!
In all seriousness, this is something we all probably don't do enough. How good are the backups if you can't restore from them? Do you really want the first time you verify your backups to be after a disaster?
Imagine seeing an astronaut by an asteroid, with the Earth and Moon in the background.
That's the inherent problem with investing. If the stock does really well, you would have wished that you had bought more. If you sell the stock and it keeps climbing, you would have wished that you would have waited. If the stock tanks, well you get the point. No matter what, you can never be happy as an investor.
Doing that to a thousand hard drives seems fun, but whenever you look at the practicality of it, you quickly realize that a $10,000 degausser isn't that bad of a deal whenever it can wipe a drive in six seconds rather than trying to do it in hours by writing zeros over it.