It doesn't necesarrily get worse, but you need to be open and honest to your closest people. Tell them that you had to learn social interaction and that it doesn't come naturally.
It's what I did and people accept me with the occasional weird now, because they know I make a real effort to fit in.
Occasional contacts with people I don't see regularly tend to go well, as they don't see me often enough to know that I'm off sometimes.
It's still embarrassing to miss a social cue every once in a while though, because that makes you stick out like a sore thumb.
Feelings of isolation will never go away completely, but I combat that rationally. If people ask my boyfriend how I'm doing, that means they care about me. If they care about me, I add something of value to their lives. That makes me part of their group.
I don't care who's dick you suck as long as it is not mine.
Ah, and here we have it, the petty reason why you are bandying about a lot of rhetoric like perverted and unnatural.
Don't flatter yourself pal, just because you happen to have a penis, doesn't mean homosexual men are lusting after you. With about 3.5 billion men in the world, chances are that you aren't that overwhelmingly attractive.
Even if you were God's sexual gift to Earth, I have been with my man in a committed relationship for thirteen years now, so your penis doesn't even come in the picture.
Are we? What you describe is going into a venue in zombie mode and just do the first thing that pops up in your head. Yeah, one can live that way and always feel fulfilled with the "knowledge" that you "got what you wanted", while spending an unnecessary fortune on overpriced products and services.
While I do use ad-blockers and don't watch to much television these days, I still see and hear ads. They are sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying and most of the time completely forgetable. I haven't found myself with a bag of groceries yet where the thing was overflowing with brandname products.
When I go shopping I think in product categories. What kinds of products do I need? Who sells that the cheapest, with acceptable quality? With every item I get that is not on the shopping list I stop and force myself to think, do I really need what I just fetched off the shelf? Most of the time it is not a top brand item, but I'll put it back all the same if it doesn't make sense to purchase. (But yeah, this is a little spur of the moment influencing by placement and packaging...)
Bigger purchases I might also think about what was advertised, but I always research the range of products and I purchase that which has good reviews online and has the most bang for the buck. If I was influenced by mass advertising, my tv would have been a Samsung (as that is being spammed in The Netherlands). My current TV is an LG, not because it was an LG, but because it had the right specs and the right price.
The dual licensing of Qt came after the creation of the Gnome DE. Before that the Qt license was "free" (no licensing fees) for non-commercial use, but not FOSS and that was the point of contention.
Stallman is OK with dual licensing, as it is up to the licensee to go with the closed license. The FOSS licensed variant makes sure that one can choose which.
*** Overall mandatory participation systems are a better way ***
Assuming the "voters" can be arsed to look up the politicians and the election programs, instead of just resentfully hauling their carcasses into a voting booth and crossing one of the pretty check boxes or just ticking the mark at the party that the family has alway voted for.
Politics and elections are like Russian salad. Voting determines the ratios of the constituent ingredients/parties, but at the end of the day you get the same old Russian salad.
A lack of tech knowledge is therefore pretty unforgivable
Have you ever seen a CEO (or other executive) do something themselves that isn't a braindead easy and canned procedure on a computer? Any time it requires a modicum of application knowledge and a smidge of creativity, they come running to their underlings to delegate the task.
This is also typical:
[T]he survey of 436 global business leaders finds that only 23% are confident their organizations have the knowledge and skills to succeed in the digital aspects of their business.
The organisation as a whole probably has enough knowledge present to adequately cope with digital demands, but this knowledge is never tapped, because most of it isn't formalised in a certificate or diploma, so it doesn't officially exist. Therefore the employees are digital peasants and the company is doomed.
You forget one thing. If copyright protection is dead, then it doesn't matter if you only distribute binaries.
Take as much visible source as you like. Put it in binaries with your own "secret" sauce. People who want human readable source will decompile your binaries (even obfuscated ones) and extract any valuable bits you came up with. With impunity.
It works both ways. Either you have protections or no one has. Don't try to hide behind contract law. One leaked copy and one breach of contract later, everyone who wasn't a party to the contract can do whatever they want.
They leader ship of al queda was just as well known and identified by other nation states.
Being identified and recognized are two different things in this context. Osama may well have been identified by practically anyone and their dog as the leader within Al Qaida. But being identified as a leader of something doesn't mean that the thing that is been led is also recognized.
When it comes to politics and nation states, being recognized by the international community means to be accepted as a legitimate entity. A recognized state is sovereign and its leader considered the head of state. Osama bin Laden's band of extremists were neither sovereign nor was Osama bin Laden recognized as a head of state.
Good, now they can focus on getting me more space for less cash.
^^Absolutely this. SSD's have proven themselves to be reliable enough and plenty fast, but they are so anemic in size in relation to price that they are realistically only interesting to use as a system disk.
That is entirely possible. It could be that consumer workloads aren't heavy enough to make any meaningful use of the faster speed of PCIe SSD's. In that case, there won't be any noticable difference between a SATA SSD and A PCIe one.
Look at it like this. If you have a continuous high volume, high throughput load then a faster SSD will make a difference as it can shift more data per second then a slower one. If you only have occasional bursts of activity, like loading an office suite, the difference will not be that noticable. If a faster SDD can load an office suite in 19 seconds instead of 21, a user won't notice this as a significant improvement.
The computer is a tool that should enable us to spend more time accomplishing what we want, not configuring a window manager to use the full resolution of my display, or figuring out that Gnome looks horrible while KDE feels slow on my system, or my trackpad isn't working. (These are all actual experiences I have had installing different versions of Ubuntu on one system, thanks to its poor support.)
You are comparing preloaded machines to a home install. Apples (no pun intended) and oranges.
I should be able to make one purchase with something that is cutting edge if I want.
What is stopping you? Several Linux shops sell high-end machines with linux preloaded and supported. (No, it is easier to abuse the comparison of a home install, on hardware not specifically selected to be supported in kernel by Linux, to preloaded OEM machines.)
Now, before you call me an Apple fanboy, I should let you know that I have been a Linux advocate since 98' at the tender age of 16.
What you did in the past is irrelevant. Currently you are cherry picking points to paint the picture you want and in the process you shit all over Linux.
The more imaginative can easily see there is no technological reason you can't hook a keyboard, mouse and monitor to a smartphone or tablet and do everything a desktop can do.
It is not that imaginative. It is also not that smart. By hooking up that smartphone to all that stationary stuff, you essentially turn that smartphone into... (drum roll please) a desktop machine. Which negates the very thing that makes the smartphone so successful, the incredible portability of the device.
A smartphone, used as a smartphone, is a marvel of independence. It is light, reasonably powerful in what it can do and it is exceptionally autonomous. All it needs and can do, is baked into that little oblong.
The moment you promote (or is that demote) the smartphone into the central processing unit of a desktop setup, it suddenly becomes a cumbersome affair. Suddenly, you need to haul more peripherals with you to be able to turn that smartphone into a desktop or you need to worry that the other location has everything you need in place (including the right connectors and protocols).
Also, if it is not a smartphone but a desktop replacement, it suddenly needs to do more diverse and more heavy tasks than a smartphone. So the ultra-portable nature of the hardware becomes a problem. You either end up with a "desktop replacement" that has the oomph of the pre-Pentium 4 era machine or you need to buy ($$$) server-based processing capabilities from a third party (read SaaS and PaaS).
The only shaky advantages that "smartphone as a desktop" has, is that it doesn't need to sync local files as you carry them around at all times and you can make phone calls from the "desktop".
For the same amount of money I can buy marvelously small but more powerful, stationary machines and hook those permanently up to all that stationary peripheral equipment and use that smartphone as a true mobile device, without being negatively affected by the need to do stuff on it that is better done on equipment specifically designed for it.
It [OS X] already has about 13.4% US desktop market share already.
But it is not BSD. It is OS X and it is certainly isn't licensed with a two or three clause BSD license. Also, OS X is an amalgam of different systems. It contains pieces of BSD, of MACH and Apple OSes.
If OS X is BSD, then VMS won, as Windows NT is a distant VMS derivative.
(Tongue in cheek:) Linux is just a terminal emulator with scope creep.
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The difference is that an idiot user doesn't get support from fellow Linux users, the user gets berated. Then two things can happen.
1.) The idiot user flees crying to another system, to be an idiot who does get encouragement from other idiots to be an idiot.
2.) The idiot user cleans up his/her act and stops being an idiot.
In both cases it is problem solved.
Subscribed to it? So paying for a locked up, VM-ed Windows is better than for a bare metal one...
Beter pay Valve for SteamOS games. Better long term prospects.
Some people do make good on the threat. I know I did when Microsoft threatened to put me in a digital ghetto with Project Paladium.
My machine? Then it is my Linux.
It doesn't necesarrily get worse, but you need to be open and honest to your closest people. Tell them that you had to learn social interaction and that it doesn't come naturally.
It's what I did and people accept me with the occasional weird now, because they know I make a real effort to fit in.
Occasional contacts with people I don't see regularly tend to go well, as they don't see me often enough to know that I'm off sometimes.
It's still embarrassing to miss a social cue every once in a while though, because that makes you stick out like a sore thumb.
Feelings of isolation will never go away completely, but I combat that rationally. If people ask my boyfriend how I'm doing, that means they care about me. If they care about me, I add something of value to their lives. That makes me part of their group.
This really happened? It didn't concoct as a feverish fantasy in your brain?
I can honestly say that in all my 41 years, I've never, ever mentioned that I'm gay while ordering fries.
I don't care who's dick you suck as long as it is not mine.
Ah, and here we have it, the petty reason why you are bandying about a lot of rhetoric like perverted and unnatural. Don't flatter yourself pal, just because you happen to have a penis, doesn't mean homosexual men are lusting after you. With about 3.5 billion men in the world, chances are that you aren't that overwhelmingly attractive. Even if you were God's sexual gift to Earth, I have been with my man in a committed relationship for thirteen years now, so your penis doesn't even come in the picture.
Munich has had this system since 2004. I refuse to believe that Munich could have survived this long on the system if it really was like in TFS.
*** You guys are missing the point. ***
Are we? What you describe is going into a venue in zombie mode and just do the first thing that pops up in your head. Yeah, one can live that way and always feel fulfilled with the "knowledge" that you "got what you wanted", while spending an unnecessary fortune on overpriced products and services.
While I do use ad-blockers and don't watch to much television these days, I still see and hear ads. They are sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying and most of the time completely forgetable. I haven't found myself with a bag of groceries yet where the thing was overflowing with brandname products.
When I go shopping I think in product categories. What kinds of products do I need? Who sells that the cheapest, with acceptable quality? With every item I get that is not on the shopping list I stop and force myself to think, do I really need what I just fetched off the shelf? Most of the time it is not a top brand item, but I'll put it back all the same if it doesn't make sense to purchase. (But yeah, this is a little spur of the moment influencing by placement and packaging...)
Bigger purchases I might also think about what was advertised, but I always research the range of products and I purchase that which has good reviews online and has the most bang for the buck. If I was influenced by mass advertising, my tv would have been a Samsung (as that is being spammed in The Netherlands). My current TV is an LG, not because it was an LG, but because it had the right specs and the right price.
The dual licensing of Qt came after the creation of the Gnome DE. Before that the Qt license was "free" (no licensing fees) for non-commercial use, but not FOSS and that was the point of contention.
Stallman is OK with dual licensing, as it is up to the licensee to go with the closed license. The FOSS licensed variant makes sure that one can choose which.
*** Overall mandatory participation systems are a better way ***
Assuming the "voters" can be arsed to look up the politicians and the election programs, instead of just resentfully hauling their carcasses into a voting booth and crossing one of the pretty check boxes or just ticking the mark at the party that the family has alway voted for.
Politics and elections are like Russian salad. Voting determines the ratios of the constituent ingredients/parties, but at the end of the day you get the same old Russian salad.
My my, what positivity. Automation will label those out of a job as just another unnecessary mouth to feed.
Have you ever seen a CEO (or other executive) do something themselves that isn't a braindead easy and canned procedure on a computer? Any time it requires a modicum of application knowledge and a smidge of creativity, they come running to their underlings to delegate the task.
This is also typical:
The organisation as a whole probably has enough knowledge present to adequately cope with digital demands, but this knowledge is never tapped, because most of it isn't formalised in a certificate or diploma, so it doesn't officially exist. Therefore the employees are digital peasants and the company is doomed.
Seems to me like a problem solved. Everybody happy.
Were big, we own this shit, we don't want to create new stuff, we want to be paid in perpetuity!
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You forget one thing. If copyright protection is dead, then it doesn't matter if you only distribute binaries.
Take as much visible source as you like. Put it in binaries with your own "secret" sauce. People who want human readable source will decompile your binaries (even obfuscated ones) and extract any valuable bits you came up with. With impunity.
It works both ways. Either you have protections or no one has. Don't try to hide behind contract law. One leaked copy and one breach of contract later, everyone who wasn't a party to the contract can do whatever they want.
They leader ship of al queda was just as well known and identified by other nation states.
Being identified and recognized are two different things in this context. Osama may well have been identified by practically anyone and their dog as the leader within Al Qaida. But being identified as a leader of something doesn't mean that the thing that is been led is also recognized.
When it comes to politics and nation states, being recognized by the international community means to be accepted as a legitimate entity. A recognized state is sovereign and its leader considered the head of state. Osama bin Laden's band of extremists were neither sovereign nor was Osama bin Laden recognized as a head of state.
Good, now they can focus on getting me more space for less cash.
^^Absolutely this. SSD's have proven themselves to be reliable enough and plenty fast, but they are so anemic in size in relation to price that they are realistically only interesting to use as a system disk.
That is entirely possible. It could be that consumer workloads aren't heavy enough to make any meaningful use of the faster speed of PCIe SSD's. In that case, there won't be any noticable difference between a SATA SSD and A PCIe one. Look at it like this. If you have a continuous high volume, high throughput load then a faster SSD will make a difference as it can shift more data per second then a slower one. If you only have occasional bursts of activity, like loading an office suite, the difference will not be that noticable. If a faster SDD can load an office suite in 19 seconds instead of 21, a user won't notice this as a significant improvement.
What about us poor Windows USERS?
Well, you could always switch and be a lab rat with us...
Sounds like a match...
Bzzt. Wrong! the first serious desktop systems were started in 1999 (NOFI WM users). So a mere 15 years.
Pre-KDE and pre-Gnome systems were more akin MS-DOS with Windows 3.11, feature wise.
You are comparing preloaded machines to a home install. Apples (no pun intended) and oranges.
What is stopping you? Several Linux shops sell high-end machines with linux preloaded and supported. (No, it is easier to abuse the comparison of a home install, on hardware not specifically selected to be supported in kernel by Linux, to preloaded OEM machines.)
What you did in the past is irrelevant. Currently you are cherry picking points to paint the picture you want and in the process you shit all over Linux.
It is not that imaginative. It is also not that smart. By hooking up that smartphone to all that stationary stuff, you essentially turn that smartphone into... (drum roll please) a desktop machine. Which negates the very thing that makes the smartphone so successful, the incredible portability of the device.
A smartphone, used as a smartphone, is a marvel of independence. It is light, reasonably powerful in what it can do and it is exceptionally autonomous. All it needs and can do, is baked into that little oblong.
The moment you promote (or is that demote) the smartphone into the central processing unit of a desktop setup, it suddenly becomes a cumbersome affair. Suddenly, you need to haul more peripherals with you to be able to turn that smartphone into a desktop or you need to worry that the other location has everything you need in place (including the right connectors and protocols).
Also, if it is not a smartphone but a desktop replacement, it suddenly needs to do more diverse and more heavy tasks than a smartphone. So the ultra-portable nature of the hardware becomes a problem. You either end up with a "desktop replacement" that has the oomph of the pre-Pentium 4 era machine or you need to buy ($$$) server-based processing capabilities from a third party (read SaaS and PaaS).
The only shaky advantages that "smartphone as a desktop" has, is that it doesn't need to sync local files as you carry them around at all times and you can make phone calls from the "desktop".
For the same amount of money I can buy marvelously small but more powerful, stationary machines and hook those permanently up to all that stationary peripheral equipment and use that smartphone as a true mobile device, without being negatively affected by the need to do stuff on it that is better done on equipment specifically designed for it.
But it is not BSD. It is OS X and it is certainly isn't licensed with a two or three clause BSD license. Also, OS X is an amalgam of different systems. It contains pieces of BSD, of MACH and Apple OSes.
If OS X is BSD, then VMS won, as Windows NT is a distant VMS derivative.
(Tongue in cheek:) Linux is just a terminal emulator with scope creep.
Are we talking about a Linux distro or Windows here?
A distro has everything neatly managed in the repository. Click, install and it updates automatically with the rest of the system...