The same goes for Uber and all the other "disruptive" services and products. When you don't have to play by any rules it's easy to make things better. I still won't take Uber because I don't trust "some guy" to come pick me up. I want a service that follows all the standards and regulations we've established for a reason.
You don't trust "some guy" to come pick you up, so you'll take a taxi? That makes no sense. The "standards and regulations" were established for a reason - to lock out competition. And it worked. Uber is 3 times the size of the traditional taxi industry in San Francisco, meaning the taxi cartel's legislation was having the effect of cutting the market to 1/4 of its actual size. Cronyism hurts everybody.
Well the main problem in general is no one checks the 'why' in why a person is not hired. The companies get to say "We tried to find a local, but none were suitable for this position", the majority get thrown out during the paperwork phase before even getting an interview. Less than 1% get interviews and of those any reason under the sun is 'valid'. Technically they can't avoid hiring you for age, gender, or other protected status traits, but even that happens all the time because the company doesn't even have to tell you why you weren't hired. Most people get form letters that simply say "We found a more qualified applicant". Which is hilarious if the same job then appears in the paper (or online) the next week at that same company.
If the company had to disclose why they didn't hire someone and could only hire an H1B for skill, things would be much different. The companies would hate it though.
I looked at the requirements for hiring H1Bs as an employer - this is pretty much spot on. You basically have to swear that you can't find a local qualified worker and that's the end of it. Oh, and pay a few thousand bucks to the government. After that you can bring your H1B(s) over as long as you get a slot.
The whole thing needs to be shut down. You can read elsewhere on here where I describe the conditions around my wife coming here 23 years ago as an H1A. It's the exact same thing only in the medical industry. Most of the foreign nurses that you see here are the equivalent of the cheap programmer, with the main difference being that nursing is easier (bluntly speaking) and more standardized with a required board exam, so they do as good a job as an American would. Just much cheaper, and that's the point. Get rid of H1B and wages would rise and more Americans would be interested in being nurses. Allowing H1Bs simply manipulates the market in favor of business, cronyism 101.
We had a pretty hilarious case here in TN a few years ago that made the news. Without going into all the details, the Democrat who was supposed to win got more votes in a certain district than there were registered voters. Oops. Small district, but he got something like 140 of 100 possible votes, way off.
Look at Al Franken's win sometime, too, as there were pretty serious allegations of fraud there. Plus Hillary getting 6 of 6 coin tosses. I mean, yeah, 1/64th chance it *could* have happened. But do you really believe it did?
Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty
Maybe if Democrat voters had cared when Republicans were complaining about the obvious voter fraud - instead of yelling RACIST!!! - they wouldn't be in this mess right now?
The blame lies 100% on the git community for this debacle.
That was true for a few days after the release of 2.7.4, maybe even a few weeks, if we're generous. But the blame gradually shifts to Apple as time goes on and they leave the vulnerability unpatched. By now, it's 100% on Apple. It's not as though Apple doesn't have a mechanism for delivering patches, either.
To be fair to Apple, I typically download the X-Code updates on four or five different Macs here, about 1GB for each one. Multiply that out to all the Macs that are going to download X-Code. It's difficult to imagine the amount of bandwidth that they're burning with each update, it would suck to have to immediately do the same thing again.
There's no such thing in Cuba. You don't even need a tour guide. Source: Me. I've been to Cuba twice. I'm currently trying to go before I have to return home to Maine. I'm not sure why you'd state such a thing but it's not even remotely true. Yeah, it sucks to get caught in a lie but, you know, some of us actually travel and have traveled extensively.
I suppose you would know that it sucks to get caught in a lie, then.
I have a friend that just returned from a trip to Asia. He visited both Koreas. His take, same thing with different propaganda.
He should visit Cuba. It's also a tropical paradise with free healthcare, as long as you don't go to the 99% of the island that the Cuban government won't let you visit.
I have no idea how any of that disqualifies her from being a Democrat. Most of those positions are standard within the party, perhaps not so much among those who blindly vote for them.
...where nobody seems to know how they continue to get elected.
She's a Democrat. If I go to facebook now I'll see that my left-leaning friends - who would be howling like a pack of rabid banshees were this simply a Republican bill - will be silent at best and at worst screeching louder about how men need to be able to use the women's restrooms or you're a bigot hoping nobody will notice this. If I point out this bill I'll be told that normally Republicans to this but sometimes *both* parties do stupid things. Note that Democrats *never* do anything stupid on their own - either Republican do stupid things or they both do.
The students also had the police officers surrounded, had been asked and ordered to move. Had been shown the pepper spray and told what would happen if they did not move to allow the police officers through.
This would be credible except for one minor detail: John Pike had moved from inside the circle to outside the circle before he decided to pepper spray them. So, if those brave officers were really "surrounded" and had no other choice, well, it's interesting that Pike was able to bust through the lines, isn't it?
You know, it's funny, we all make "mistakes", but some "mistakes" are actually felonies. Like when John Pike assaulted peaceful "protestors" with pepper spray. He made a choice, and he had other choices he could have made that wouldn't have been crimes. He could have simply walked on. His choice. Instead, he chose to assault them. He didn't properly pay for his crimes but at least he lost his job and his name is all over the internet.
"...unless it happens within their jurisdiction which they are allowed to make laws governing."
Um... I hate to break it to you, but *literally* the entirety of the United States of America, and its territories, holdings, and a big swath of ocean surrounding such, are within the jurisdiction of the federal government.
This is the sort of ignorance I was lamenting above.
And that's why the Constitution was designed to be amended. And why we've done it numerous times.
Want the federal government to have new powers? Pass an amendment. Simple. Easy? Maybe not. But it (is supposed to) ensures that the feds don't go crazy doing things the States don't want them to.
Yes, exactly. Here's an interesting parallel. Note that alcohol was prohibited through an amendment, as the congress at the time recognized that they had no authority to enact laws regarding alcohol without an amendment. And prohibition was lifted through an amendment. By the time they decided marijuana was evil, they didn't bother with an amendment.
Murder is legal then, because it doesn't say they're allowed to make laws saying it's illegal.
Handled by the states. Pretty much everything was meant to be handled at the state/local level. The federal government only has the legal ability to do the things mentioned above.
I beg to differ, as the Constitution specifically mentions the general welfare of the nation in the same clause as defense.
This is probably a big part of what's wrong with our country today - people who grew up not understanding the basics of the Constitution. On both "sides of the aisle", by the way.
Let's look at the Constitution. The preamble mentions the general welfare:
We the people of the United States, in order to: 1. form a more perfect union 2. establish justice 3. insure domestic tranquility 4. provide for the common defense 5. promote the general welfare 6. and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
This part isn't "law"; it's simply an introductory paragraph explaining their goals in creating the Constitution.
Article I, Section 8 specifically enumerates the powers that are granted to Congress (which creates law) from the Constitution. It's short, so I'll include the entire thing:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
The line to which you refer actually explains that Congress can collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and then to use that money to pay for the common defense and general welfare. "General welfare" isn't "healthcare" -
Oh they understand the concept of NULL values, but the value isn't NULL. They know part of the location but at a low resolution.
ARIN can get you to the country level. The data here is NULL because they don't know where it is. The closest they can get is "USA", but, again, I can get that information elsewhere. For this particular dataset the appropriate value is NULL.
"“Until you reached out to us, we were unaware that there were issues with how we selected these lat/lons,”"
Bullshit.
To be fair, these are people who are running a database company but don't understand the basic concept of NULL values. And now their "fix" is to change the defaults to a more obvious wrong location.
Until 2008? LOL. When it was written 220 years ago it was definitely an individual right, and the guys who wrote it made that clear. Looney leftists hate that, but, well, reality isn't real friendly to them...
The ACLU does defend the Second Amendment. The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment's reference to "a well-regulated Militia" to mean a collective right, rather than an individual right.
Which is why they don't defend the 2nd Amendment. Nobody believes that it's a "collective right" (whatever that would mean, anyway). The people who wrote it made clear it was an individual right, and recent Supreme Court interpretations have upheld it as such. I know the anti-gun-nut hate that, but, well, welcome to reality.
A liberal friend of mine who understands the 2nd Amendment likes to use this analogy, which is fitting:
"A well-educated electorate being necessary to the preservation of a free society, the right of the people to own and read books shall not be infringed."
Does that statement sound like something that could be used to prevent ownership of books by individuals?
There are a large number of us power users who use Mac OS X because 1) it just works for stuff that I don't care about (like, 99% of what I do)
Which is...?
Photo editing, photoshop (two different things), web browsing, spreadsheet, word processing presentations, movie editing, dvd creation, calendar (that works with my phone), etc. I don't want to think about this stuff, it's important but tangential to my work.
2) if I need to do something "heavier" I can drop to bash and do it because it's a Unix machine.
Such as...?
Programming, shell scripting, etc. I make high-end web applications in vertical markets, so I have a full dev environment on my Mac. It's a Unix machine and I take full advantage of that. I use Linux exclusively on servers, although in the past I've used a lot of FreeBSD. I have no trouble moving between the three platforms.
It's also nice to be able to hook my camera up and have my pictures load without figuring out which piece of software is good for that
Not an issue on major Linux desktop distros? Major DE handle that properly, this coming from the guy that uses a Nikon D3300, Sony Xperia Z5 etc.
Good to know if I ever go back.
Another essential part of Linux that's just going to have to happen is really simple and full Windows API compatibility
But OS X doesn't, so what is it about OS X that's acceptable that isn't on Linux exactly?
Apple's not trying to "take over the desktop", they're happy to have the top 10% of that particular market. Read the next line where I say just that.
Yeah, but Apple doesn't do that with Macs! Okay, but they're also content with 10% of the desktop market. It's the top 10%, which is a nice place to be.
Linux isn't at 10% for desktops yet supposedly, so it seems silly to set pie in the sky goals.
Read "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" if you are truly interested. Every market becomes a two-horse race. Right now, Linux is basically RC Cola.
There's no room for another Apple, because they're at the top 10%, not the bottom. Linux's only chance at true desktop dominance is knocking Windows off the throne. And I contend that's easier to do if you can support Windows executables natively, because that's what's keeping people on Windows. Apple isn't trying to dominate the desktop at all, they're happy where they're at (which is "knock me over with a feather" surprising given that their market cap is the highest or second highest on the planet with only 10% of the desktop, right?).
Miscreations like the Unity and Gnome 3 desktop aside, the Linux desktop has been comparable if not better in user friendliness than Windows since the late 90s. What it lacks is a team of rabid marketing people ready to cram it down the throats of unsuspecting users who do not yet know that they need it. Now of course there is the temptation of pandering to the masses by trying to be more like OS X or Metro, but this leads to power users leaving and average users still not using it because they do not even know that it exists.
Are you kidding? There are a large number of us power users who use Mac OS X because 1) it just works for stuff that I don't care about (like, 99% of what I do) and 2) if I need to do something "heavier" I can drop to bash and do it because it's a Unix machine.
Geeze, Mac OS X is *exactly* what a Linux desktop should look and work like.
I love computers and everything I can do with them. I love my RPi and Linux servers and all that.
But I also have to get work done on this, and paying hundreds of dollars for Photoshop isn't a problem when I'm using it to make thousands of dollars. It's also nice to be able to hook my camera up and have my pictures load without figuring out which piece of software is good for that, seeing if it's been abandoned yet by its author(s), and if it works with my camera, etc. Does that mean that the Mac's "Photos" application is perfect? Hell no. But it *works* and fits my needs well enough that I don't need something else. Same goes for pretty much everything else on here.
Another essential part of Linux that's just going to have to happen is really simple and full Windows API compatibility. I know, it sucks, it's a moving target, etc. But someone else mentioned below needing to do stuff like GPS updates that only come with Windows software. Let's face it, Windows is the OS/390 of the desktop world. It might be ancient and suck, but there's so much software written against it that it simply has to be supported on the desktop for that desktop to gain wide acceptance.
Yeah, but Apple doesn't do that with Macs! Okay, but they're also content with 10% of the desktop market. It's the top 10%, which is a nice place to be. To break out of that niche requires running Windows executables with no further effort needed.
I want Linux to win everywhere, but I also know how this market works. And every year that goes by simply means more Windows software.
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The same goes for Uber and all the other "disruptive" services and products. When you don't have to play by any rules it's easy to make things better. I still won't take Uber because I don't trust "some guy" to come pick me up. I want a service that follows all the standards and regulations we've established for a reason.
You don't trust "some guy" to come pick you up, so you'll take a taxi? That makes no sense. The "standards and regulations" were established for a reason - to lock out competition. And it worked. Uber is 3 times the size of the traditional taxi industry in San Francisco, meaning the taxi cartel's legislation was having the effect of cutting the market to 1/4 of its actual size. Cronyism hurts everybody.
Well the main problem in general is no one checks the 'why' in why a person is not hired. The companies get to say "We tried to find a local, but none were suitable for this position", the majority get thrown out during the paperwork phase before even getting an interview. Less than 1% get interviews and of those any reason under the sun is 'valid'. Technically they can't avoid hiring you for age, gender, or other protected status traits, but even that happens all the time because the company doesn't even have to tell you why you weren't hired. Most people get form letters that simply say "We found a more qualified applicant". Which is hilarious if the same job then appears in the paper (or online) the next week at that same company.
If the company had to disclose why they didn't hire someone and could only hire an H1B for skill, things would be much different. The companies would hate it though.
I looked at the requirements for hiring H1Bs as an employer - this is pretty much spot on. You basically have to swear that you can't find a local qualified worker and that's the end of it. Oh, and pay a few thousand bucks to the government. After that you can bring your H1B(s) over as long as you get a slot.
The whole thing needs to be shut down. You can read elsewhere on here where I describe the conditions around my wife coming here 23 years ago as an H1A. It's the exact same thing only in the medical industry. Most of the foreign nurses that you see here are the equivalent of the cheap programmer, with the main difference being that nursing is easier (bluntly speaking) and more standardized with a required board exam, so they do as good a job as an American would. Just much cheaper, and that's the point. Get rid of H1B and wages would rise and more Americans would be interested in being nurses. Allowing H1Bs simply manipulates the market in favor of business, cronyism 101.
We had a pretty hilarious case here in TN a few years ago that made the news. Without going into all the details, the Democrat who was supposed to win got more votes in a certain district than there were registered voters. Oops. Small district, but he got something like 140 of 100 possible votes, way off.
Look at Al Franken's win sometime, too, as there were pretty serious allegations of fraud there. Plus Hillary getting 6 of 6 coin tosses. I mean, yeah, 1/64th chance it *could* have happened. But do you really believe it did?
Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty
Maybe if Democrat voters had cared when Republicans were complaining about the obvious voter fraud - instead of yelling RACIST!!! - they wouldn't be in this mess right now?
Not true. Many updates are much smaller than the whole package.
Maybe, but most x-code updates that I get are 1GB+.
The blame lies 100% on the git community for this debacle.
That was true for a few days after the release of 2.7.4, maybe even a few weeks, if we're generous. But the blame gradually shifts to Apple as time goes on and they leave the vulnerability unpatched. By now, it's 100% on Apple. It's not as though Apple doesn't have a mechanism for delivering patches, either.
To be fair to Apple, I typically download the X-Code updates on four or five different Macs here, about 1GB for each one. Multiply that out to all the Macs that are going to download X-Code. It's difficult to imagine the amount of bandwidth that they're burning with each update, it would suck to have to immediately do the same thing again.
There's no such thing in Cuba. You don't even need a tour guide. Source: Me. I've been to Cuba twice. I'm currently trying to go before I have to return home to Maine. I'm not sure why you'd state such a thing but it's not even remotely true. Yeah, it sucks to get caught in a lie but, you know, some of us actually travel and have traveled extensively.
I suppose you would know that it sucks to get caught in a lie, then.
Guy does not think he is a communist (hint: "democratic socialist" is not the same thing)
Maybe, but he has said nice things about evil communists (yes, Castro is evil) plenty of times of which we are aware:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/megana...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
It's also quite fascinating to see what the communists say about him.
I have a friend that just returned from a trip to Asia. He visited both Koreas. His take, same thing with different propaganda.
He should visit Cuba. It's also a tropical paradise with free healthcare, as long as you don't go to the 99% of the island that the Cuban government won't let you visit.
I have no idea how any of that disqualifies her from being a Democrat. Most of those positions are standard within the party, perhaps not so much among those who blindly vote for them.
...where nobody seems to know how they continue to get elected.
She's a Democrat. If I go to facebook now I'll see that my left-leaning friends - who would be howling like a pack of rabid banshees were this simply a Republican bill - will be silent at best and at worst screeching louder about how men need to be able to use the women's restrooms or you're a bigot hoping nobody will notice this. If I point out this bill I'll be told that normally Republicans to this but sometimes *both* parties do stupid things. Note that Democrats *never* do anything stupid on their own - either Republican do stupid things or they both do.
The students also had the police officers surrounded, had been asked and ordered to move. Had been shown the pepper spray and told what would happen if they did not move to allow the police officers through.
This would be credible except for one minor detail: John Pike had moved from inside the circle to outside the circle before he decided to pepper spray them. So, if those brave officers were really "surrounded" and had no other choice, well, it's interesting that Pike was able to bust through the lines, isn't it?
We all make mistakes.
You know, it's funny, we all make "mistakes", but some "mistakes" are actually felonies. Like when John Pike assaulted peaceful "protestors" with pepper spray. He made a choice, and he had other choices he could have made that wouldn't have been crimes. He could have simply walked on. His choice. Instead, he chose to assault them. He didn't properly pay for his crimes but at least he lost his job and his name is all over the internet.
"...unless it happens within their jurisdiction which they are allowed to make laws governing."
Um... I hate to break it to you, but *literally* the entirety of the United States of America, and its territories, holdings, and a big swath of ocean surrounding such, are within the jurisdiction of the federal government.
This is the sort of ignorance I was lamenting above.
And that's why the Constitution was designed to be amended. And why we've done it numerous times.
Want the federal government to have new powers? Pass an amendment. Simple. Easy? Maybe not. But it (is supposed to) ensures that the feds don't go crazy doing things the States don't want them to.
Yes, exactly. Here's an interesting parallel. Note that alcohol was prohibited through an amendment, as the congress at the time recognized that they had no authority to enact laws regarding alcohol without an amendment. And prohibition was lifted through an amendment. By the time they decided marijuana was evil, they didn't bother with an amendment.
Murder is legal then, because it doesn't say they're allowed to make laws saying it's illegal.
Handled by the states. Pretty much everything was meant to be handled at the state/local level. The federal government only has the legal ability to do the things mentioned above.
On May 12, 2011, Feinstein cosponsored PIPA.
I think this person needs to lose an election.
Me too, but why do you think that the morons who elected her will grow a brain cell before the next election.
I beg to differ, as the Constitution specifically mentions the general welfare of the nation in the same clause as defense.
This is probably a big part of what's wrong with our country today - people who grew up not understanding the basics of the Constitution. On both "sides of the aisle", by the way.
Let's look at the Constitution. The preamble mentions the general welfare:
We the people of the United States, in order to:
1. form a more perfect union
2. establish justice
3. insure domestic tranquility
4. provide for the common defense
5. promote the general welfare
6. and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
This part isn't "law"; it's simply an introductory paragraph explaining their goals in creating the Constitution.
Article I, Section 8 specifically enumerates the powers that are granted to Congress (which creates law) from the Constitution. It's short, so I'll include the entire thing:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
The line to which you refer actually explains that Congress can collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and then to use that money to pay for the common defense and general welfare. "General welfare" isn't "healthcare" -
Oh they understand the concept of NULL values, but the value isn't NULL. They know part of the location but at a low resolution.
ARIN can get you to the country level. The data here is NULL because they don't know where it is. The closest they can get is "USA", but, again, I can get that information elsewhere. For this particular dataset the appropriate value is NULL.
"“Until you reached out to us, we were unaware that there were issues with how we selected these lat/lons,”"
Bullshit.
To be fair, these are people who are running a database company but don't understand the basic concept of NULL values. And now their "fix" is to change the defaults to a more obvious wrong location.
Sigh.
Until 2008? LOL. When it was written 220 years ago it was definitely an individual right, and the guys who wrote it made that clear. Looney leftists hate that, but, well, reality isn't real friendly to them...
The ACLU does defend the Second Amendment. The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment's reference to "a well-regulated Militia" to mean a collective right, rather than an individual right.
Which is why they don't defend the 2nd Amendment. Nobody believes that it's a "collective right" (whatever that would mean, anyway). The people who wrote it made clear it was an individual right, and recent Supreme Court interpretations have upheld it as such. I know the anti-gun-nut hate that, but, well, welcome to reality.
A liberal friend of mine who understands the 2nd Amendment likes to use this analogy, which is fitting:
"A well-educated electorate being necessary to the preservation of a free society, the right of the people to own and read books shall not be infringed."
Does that statement sound like something that could be used to prevent ownership of books by individuals?
"DevOps was invented as a way to unite developers and IT operations (system administrators) to help them find a common ground."
I thought the idea was to make developers do system administration and save money. Did I miss something?
Which is...?
Photo editing, photoshop (two different things), web browsing, spreadsheet, word processing presentations, movie editing, dvd creation, calendar (that works with my phone), etc. I don't want to think about this stuff, it's important but tangential to my work.
Such as...?
Programming, shell scripting, etc. I make high-end web applications in vertical markets, so I have a full dev environment on my Mac. It's a Unix machine and I take full advantage of that. I use Linux exclusively on servers, although in the past I've used a lot of FreeBSD. I have no trouble moving between the three platforms.
Not an issue on major Linux desktop distros? Major DE handle that properly, this coming from the guy that uses a Nikon D3300, Sony Xperia Z5 etc.
Good to know if I ever go back.
But OS X doesn't, so what is it about OS X that's acceptable that isn't on Linux exactly?
Apple's not trying to "take over the desktop", they're happy to have the top 10% of that particular market. Read the next line where I say just that.
Yeah, but Apple doesn't do that with Macs! Okay, but they're also content with 10% of the desktop market. It's the top 10%, which is a nice place to be.
Linux isn't at 10% for desktops yet supposedly, so it seems silly to set pie in the sky goals.
Read "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" if you are truly interested. Every market becomes a two-horse race. Right now, Linux is basically RC Cola.
There's no room for another Apple, because they're at the top 10%, not the bottom. Linux's only chance at true desktop dominance is knocking Windows off the throne. And I contend that's easier to do if you can support Windows executables natively, because that's what's keeping people on Windows. Apple isn't trying to dominate the desktop at all, they're happy where they're at (which is "knock me over with a feather" surprising given that their market cap is the highest or second highest on the planet with only 10% of the desktop, right?).
Miscreations like the Unity and Gnome 3 desktop aside, the Linux desktop has been comparable if not better in user friendliness than Windows since the late 90s.
What it lacks is a team of rabid marketing people ready to cram it down the throats of unsuspecting users who do not yet know that they need it.
Now of course there is the temptation of pandering to the masses by trying to be more like OS X or Metro, but this leads to power users leaving and average users still not using it because they do not even know that it exists.
Are you kidding? There are a large number of us power users who use Mac OS X because 1) it just works for stuff that I don't care about (like, 99% of what I do) and 2) if I need to do something "heavier" I can drop to bash and do it because it's a Unix machine.
Geeze, Mac OS X is *exactly* what a Linux desktop should look and work like.
I love computers and everything I can do with them. I love my RPi and Linux servers and all that.
But I also have to get work done on this, and paying hundreds of dollars for Photoshop isn't a problem when I'm using it to make thousands of dollars. It's also nice to be able to hook my camera up and have my pictures load without figuring out which piece of software is good for that, seeing if it's been abandoned yet by its author(s), and if it works with my camera, etc. Does that mean that the Mac's "Photos" application is perfect? Hell no. But it *works* and fits my needs well enough that I don't need something else. Same goes for pretty much everything else on here.
Another essential part of Linux that's just going to have to happen is really simple and full Windows API compatibility. I know, it sucks, it's a moving target, etc. But someone else mentioned below needing to do stuff like GPS updates that only come with Windows software. Let's face it, Windows is the OS/390 of the desktop world. It might be ancient and suck, but there's so much software written against it that it simply has to be supported on the desktop for that desktop to gain wide acceptance.
Yeah, but Apple doesn't do that with Macs! Okay, but they're also content with 10% of the desktop market. It's the top 10%, which is a nice place to be. To break out of that niche requires running Windows executables with no further effort needed.
I want Linux to win everywhere, but I also know how this market works. And every year that goes by simply means more Windows software.