Since when? Seems to me open source is primarily about what the developers want
Open Source projects on the scale of Firefox and LibreOffice are all about what their patrons are wiling to pay for ---
and patrons of the arts on the grand scale, the state, the church, the merchant prince, have always had a targeted audience of "users" whose needs and expectations must be met.
The artist, architect or engineer, who put his own desires first soon finds himself off the payroll.
some Firefox users began to voice their displeasure over the move on public forums like Bugzilla, Google Groups, and Hacker News
These forums may be technically "open to the public," but that doesn't make them visible, accessible or inviting to anyone but the geek.
Which is one of the principal reasons why the geek gets sandbagged every time the infinitely greater mass of users move in a direction he doesn't want or expect them to go.
Integrated DRM media play in or through the browser will serve as an example.
I never wanted monthly music rental to begin with, so... no.
I never wanted a saddle horse, but I haven't seen the need to post that inconsequential fact to every equine forum on the net.
That said, I bought a year's subscription to XBox Music on Pi Day for $31.40.
30 million tracks available for streaming or downloads to up to four devices.
Broadly representative of all musical genres, all eras of recorded music, hit and miss when it comes to the spoken word, no audiobooks. Metadata is sparse. No album notes, no lyrics, but still a resource that is miles wide and deep and useful even to the hardcore CD and Vinyl enthusiast.
P2P and USENET are bottomless time sinks, here you can summon up 50 to 100 albums or tracks for sampling in one click and fill your shopping cart or playlist from there.
The HP Stream 8 will serve as an example of a Win 10 upgradeable budget Win 8.1 with Bing tablet.
WIMBOOT with Compressed OS. If you are wondering why you haven't seen the Win 10 upgrade tray app on your RAM-starved tablet or laptop this is the reason. A solution is in the works.
What about people who can't/don't want to update at the time Microsoft tells them?
Important updates for Win 10 home users will be automatically downloaded in the background. But not over a metered connection.
The Win 10
upgrade tray app that frays the geek mind does a compatibility check. You won't even see the thing unless your system is ready for the upgrade. As for the installer, it just sits there until you are ready to launch it.
Windows 1.0 was released in October of 1985. Twelve years before the launch of Slashdot. In 2015, the geek may fret and fume, but Windows remains a force to be reckoned with.
If the geek wants to "talk tech" on Slashdot, that is a fine with me. But the stained glass icon isn't an invitation to talk sensibly about Windows --- it is an invitation to rant and rave, and that wastes time.
Some of the deprecated features include: Media Center, out-of-the-box DVD playback and USB floppy support, desktop gadgets, deferring updates (Home edition), old versions of Windows games, and Windows Live Essentials version of OneDrive.
If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.
If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.
We really want smart-ish but programmable and directed -- cars that can drive themselves, not cars that can be our friends.
The driverless car will need to respond intelligently to the needs of its passengers if it is carrying the elderly, disabled, unsupervised minors and so on,
Live action and animation are two separate departments. Animation knows WTF it's doing, live action not so much.
The distinction between live action and animation has been blurred for decades.
Tron is the primal example. Rocket Raccoon is a fully realized character in Guardians of the Galaxy and not the comic relief or the blink-and-you'll miss it Easter Egg cameo of Howard The Duck.
if the rumors are true, they're planning to make up for all those free upgrades with a hefty OEM price for new computers (isn't it nice to be able to extract Monopoly rates when you need it). $109 OEM for the home version, $149 for Pro
To the uninitiated:
The New Egg retail price for single copies of Windows 10 in OEM packaging for the "system builder" isn't the dirt cheap wholesale price paid by Dell, HP or Lenovo for the mass-market OEM Windows system install.
Windows might have a couple of years left but unless they release source code under an open/free license there's no way it will continue to be an option.
The Anonymous Coward also said there was no future for MS Office 365. LibreOffice for the win.
Linux holds a 1.5% share of the desktop in the Net Applications stats, little changed since the dawn of time. Win 8/Win 8.1,14% Desktop Operating System Market Share
Before the sentence was handed down, the court heard from two parents of young men who died from drugs purchased on the Silk Road.
''You don't fit a typical criminal profile,'' she began. ''It's not TV or the movies in here. You're educated. You've got two degrees, an intact family, and 98 people willing to write letters on your behalf. And yet, we have you. And you are a criminal.''
Ulbricht had been betrayed by his own words, and over the next several minutes, Forrest proceeded to read the most damning passages from his own logs and journals.
'It's still not clear to me why you kept a journal,'' she noted, an aside that apparently produced laughter in the overflow room.
''You were captain of the ship. It wasn't a world of 'freedom'---it was a place with a lot of rules. It was a world of your laws.''
''It was a carefully planned life's work,'' she said, pointing to a 2010 journal entry saying he'd already been thinking about the site for a year. ''It was your opus. You wanted it to be your legacy---and it is.''
Ulbricht's ideological messages on Silk Road boards ''reveal a kind of arrogance,'' she said. ''Silk Road's creation shows that you thought you were better than the laws.''
As for the ''harm reduction'' arguments, the judge could not have been more cutting. She read every academic study suggested by the defense, and then some, and was not impressed.
''No drug dealer from Harlem or the Bronx would have made these arguments,'' said Forrest. ''It's an argument of privilege.''
Ulbricht was focused on harm that could come the user. But most drug violence didn't come from buys on the street, but from ''upstream'' violence that grows as demand grows, she asserted. Believing that the user is the only person affected by drug violence is ''f'antasy, it's magical thinking,'' she said.
As for Fernando Caudevilla, or ''Doctor X,'' the Spanish doctor hired by Ulbricht to give advice to users, the judge read his messages, and found them ''breathtakingly irresponsible.''
Caudevilla told a diabetic that using MDMA would be OK, as long as he remembered to check his glucose levels by setting an alarm. In another message, he advised an 18-year-old first time drug user to ''be careful and I think you'll be fine,'' and to ''stick to psychedelics.''
Because the concept of "choice" is anathema to UI designers circa 2015.
"Choice" --- as the geek defines it --- has never been a big part of Microsoft's success in its core markets. The same can be said, of course, for Apple.
When it comes to risk assessment, there's one type that humans are notoriously bad at: the very low-frequency but high-consequence risks and rewards. It's why so many of us are so eager to play the lottery, and simultaneously why we're catastrophically afraid of ebola and plane crashes.
Playing the lottery is a daydream that anyone can indulge in for the expenditure of a few dollars --- an impulse buy and a month's entertainment for the price of two rentals from the Red Box.
On 9 November 2005 a Boeing 777-200LR, dubbed the Worldliner, completed the world's longest non-stop passenger flight. It traveled 21,602 kilometres (11,664 nmi) eastward...from Hong Kong to London, in roughly 22 h 22 min
Ebola is simply a reminder of how quickly in the modern world a new and deadly infectious disease can spread beyond its origins. Replace West Africa with Central America and the Caribbean and see how you like the odds against containment.
The geek is not particularly good at distinguishing between singular incidents that have a massive --- long term -- social impact beyond a simple count of the number of dead and dying and those with occur randomly on a small scale across an entire country or continent and which can be absorbed without much difficulty.
I thought the political message of Star Wars was clear: a powerful executive gradually demonizes, marginalizes, ignores and then disbands a representative body...
Whatever their faults, the prequels make it plain that a decadent Republic and Jedi Order were ready to be shoved over a cliff before Palpatine came along.
The signs of sterility and paralysis can be seen everywhere you look.
Slapping him in maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole might as well be death, but is something like 1/10th as expensive as execution.
The economic argument against the death penalty doesn't work when you compare the state and federal systems. It would be trivially easy to dispose of the federal death row inmate if anyone really wanted to do it.
The number of federal prisoners on death row is 61.
27 are on death row for crimes committed in Texas, Missouri and Virginia. 2 for crimes committed in California. Federal Death Row Prisoners [March 24]
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Since when? Seems to me open source is primarily about what the developers want
Open Source projects on the scale of Firefox and LibreOffice are all about what their patrons are wiling to pay for ---
and patrons of the arts on the grand scale, the state, the church, the merchant prince, have always had a targeted audience of "users" whose needs and expectations must be met.
The artist, architect or engineer, who put his own desires first soon finds himself off the payroll.
some Firefox users began to voice their displeasure over the move on public forums like Bugzilla, Google Groups, and Hacker News
These forums may be technically "open to the public," but that doesn't make them visible, accessible or inviting to anyone but the geek.
Which is one of the principal reasons why the geek gets sandbagged every time the infinitely greater mass of users move in a direction he doesn't want or expect them to go.
Integrated DRM media play in or through the browser will serve as an example.
His defenses there have crumbled.
It's windows. You should expect it to be attacked in the highlands and the lowlands, near and far, to and fro, hither and yon...
Tell me why you shouldn't be treating any server OS the same way --- whatever its market share or geek cred.
I never wanted monthly music rental to begin with, so ... no.
I never wanted a saddle horse, but I haven't seen the need to post that inconsequential fact to every equine forum on the net.
That said, I bought a year's subscription to XBox Music on Pi Day for $31.40.
30 million tracks available for streaming or downloads to up to four devices.
Broadly representative of all musical genres, all eras of recorded music, hit and miss when it comes to the spoken word, no audiobooks. Metadata is sparse. No album notes, no lyrics, but still a resource that is miles wide and deep and useful even to the hardcore CD and Vinyl enthusiast.
P2P and USENET are bottomless time sinks, here you can summon up 50 to 100 albums or tracks for sampling in one click and fill your shopping cart or playlist from there.
Ha! Yeah, well, Canada is just as huge and is only bordered by ONE country. And they use metric.
If are you living near the US border, as almost every Canadian does, you have to be comfortable using both systems.
Everyone knows most of Canada is uninhabited, but seeing really is believing.
This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (MAPS and PHOTOS)
The HP Stream 8 will serve as an example of a Win 10 upgradeable budget Win 8.1 with Bing tablet.
WIMBOOT with Compressed OS. If you are wondering why you haven't seen the Win 10 upgrade tray app on your RAM-starved tablet or laptop this is the reason. A solution is in the works.
I feel as if I have dug three levels down into the MediaGoblin site and still without a clue as to what this thing is all about.
What about people who can't/don't want to update at the time Microsoft tells them?
Important updates for Win 10 home users will be automatically downloaded in the background. But not over a metered connection.
The Win 10 upgrade tray app that frays the geek mind does a compatibility check. You won't even see the thing unless your system is ready for the upgrade. As for the installer, it just sits there until you are ready to launch it.
Windows 1.0 was released in October of 1985. Twelve years before the launch of Slashdot. In 2015, the geek may fret and fume, but Windows remains a force to be reckoned with.
If the geek wants to "talk tech" on Slashdot, that is a fine with me. But the stained glass icon isn't an invitation to talk sensibly about Windows --- it is an invitation to rant and rave, and that wastes time.
Some of the deprecated features include: Media Center, out-of-the-box DVD playback and USB floppy support, desktop gadgets, deferring updates (Home edition), old versions of Windows games, and Windows Live Essentials version of OneDrive.
If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.
If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.
Windows 10 Specifications: Feature deprecation section
In a separate FAQ, Microsoft says it is ''providing a free DVD playback app in Windows 10 for Windows Media Center users.''
Here Are the Features Windows 10 Will Remove When You Upgrade, Windows 10 Q&A: Will Windows Media Center be available in Windows 10?
On 'Gamergate', 'sexual equality', 'gender issues', we don't care
Until the back pressure from coverage by mainstream news sites and other geek forums like Arts Technica can't be resisted any longer.
We really want smart-ish but programmable and directed -- cars that can drive themselves, not cars that can be our friends.
The driverless car will need to respond intelligently to the needs of its passengers if it is carrying the elderly, disabled, unsupervised minors and so on,
another brilliant idea from the editors of Dice/Slashdot
Redo slashdot, allow markdown, bbedit, html, LaTeX.. editing.
Design a proper responsive layout (It was not Beta) and keep it about tech
Personally, I find markup on a laptop or tablet pure agony and a distraction from what I want and need to post. The informal forum for me.
The days when the geek could wall himself off from the world are long gone, every decision he makes exists within a larger social context.
That is why stories like Gamersgate touch a raw nerve and can't be wished away.
Live action and animation are two separate departments. Animation knows WTF it's doing, live action not so much.
The distinction between live action and animation has been blurred for decades.
Tron is the primal example. Rocket Raccoon is a fully realized character in Guardians of the Galaxy and not the comic relief or the blink-and-you'll miss it Easter Egg cameo of Howard The Duck.
This is a win if you like big scifi movies that make billions of dollars, it's a loss if you liked a little bit of diversity in your movies.
Disney took a chance on Marvel properties as original, eccentric and obscure as Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6.
It did rather well by Wreck-It Ralph.
Which was rooted in character and story, not special effects.
if the rumors are true, they're planning to make up for all those free upgrades with a hefty OEM price for new computers (isn't it nice to be able to extract Monopoly rates when you need it). $109 OEM for the home version, $149 for Pro
To the uninitiated:
The New Egg retail price for single copies of Windows 10 in OEM packaging for the "system builder" isn't the dirt cheap wholesale price paid by Dell, HP or Lenovo for the mass-market OEM Windows system install.
Windows might have a couple of years left but unless they release source code under an open/free license there's no way it will continue to be an option.
The Anonymous Coward also said there was no future for MS Office 365.
LibreOffice for the win.
Linux holds a 1.5% share of the desktop in the Net Applications stats, little changed since the dawn of time.
Win 8/Win 8.1,14%
Desktop Operating System Market Share
Before the sentence was handed down, the court heard from two parents of young men who died from drugs purchased on the Silk Road.
''You don't fit a typical criminal profile,'' she began. ''It's not TV or the movies in here. You're educated. You've got two degrees, an intact family, and 98 people willing to write letters on your behalf. And yet, we have you. And you are a criminal.''
Ulbricht had been betrayed by his own words, and over the next several minutes, Forrest proceeded to read the most damning passages from his own logs and journals.
'It's still not clear to me why you kept a journal,'' she noted, an aside that apparently produced laughter in the overflow room.
''You were captain of the ship. It wasn't a world of 'freedom'---it was a place with a lot of rules. It was a world of your laws.''
''It was a carefully planned life's work,'' she said, pointing to a 2010 journal entry saying he'd already been thinking about the site for a year. ''It was your opus. You wanted it to be your legacy---and it is.''
Ulbricht's ideological messages on Silk Road boards ''reveal a kind of arrogance,'' she said. ''Silk Road's creation shows that you thought you were better than the laws.''
As for the ''harm reduction'' arguments, the judge could not have been more cutting. She read every academic study suggested by the defense, and then some, and was not impressed.
''No drug dealer from Harlem or the Bronx would have made these arguments,'' said Forrest. ''It's an argument of privilege.''
Ulbricht was focused on harm that could come the user. But most drug violence didn't come from buys on the street, but from ''upstream'' violence that grows as demand grows, she asserted. Believing that the user is the only person affected by drug violence is ''f'antasy, it's magical thinking,'' she said.
As for Fernando Caudevilla, or ''Doctor X,'' the Spanish doctor hired by Ulbricht to give advice to users, the judge read his messages, and found them ''breathtakingly irresponsible.''
Caudevilla told a diabetic that using MDMA would be OK, as long as he remembered to check his glucose levels by setting an alarm. In another message, he advised an 18-year-old first time drug user to ''be careful and I think you'll be fine,'' and to ''stick to psychedelics.''
Release to market with minimum feature set, Microsoft would be proud.
--- but when a Microsoft product offers more than a minimum feature set, the geek is the first to go ballistic.
Because the concept of "choice" is anathema to UI designers circa 2015.
"Choice" --- as the geek defines it --- has never been a big part of Microsoft's success in its core markets. The same can be said, of course, for Apple.
When it comes to risk assessment, there's one type that humans are notoriously bad at: the very low-frequency but high-consequence risks and rewards. It's why so many of us are so eager to play the lottery, and simultaneously why we're catastrophically afraid of ebola and plane crashes.
Playing the lottery is a daydream that anyone can indulge in for the expenditure of a few dollars --- an impulse buy and a month's entertainment for the price of two rentals from the Red Box.
On 9 November 2005 a Boeing 777-200LR, dubbed the Worldliner, completed the world's longest non-stop passenger flight. It traveled 21,602 kilometres (11,664 nmi) eastward...from Hong Kong to London, in roughly 22 h 22 min
Non-stop flight
Ebola is simply a reminder of how quickly in the modern world a new and deadly infectious disease can spread beyond its origins. Replace West Africa with Central America and the Caribbean and see how you like the odds against containment.
The geek is not particularly good at distinguishing between singular incidents that have a massive --- long term -- social impact beyond a simple count of the number of dead and dying and those with occur randomly on a small scale across an entire country or continent and which can be absorbed without much difficulty.
I thought the political message of Star Wars was clear: a powerful executive gradually demonizes, marginalizes, ignores and then disbands a representative body...
Whatever their faults, the prequels make it plain that a decadent Republic and Jedi Order were ready to be shoved over a cliff before Palpatine came along.
The signs of sterility and paralysis can be seen everywhere you look.
Slapping him in maximum security prison for life with no chance of parole might as well be death, but is something like 1/10th as expensive as execution.
The economic argument against the death penalty doesn't work when you compare the state and federal systems. It would be trivially easy to dispose of the federal death row inmate if anyone really wanted to do it.
The number of federal prisoners on death row is 61.
27 are on death row for crimes committed in Texas, Missouri and Virginia. 2 for crimes committed in California. Federal Death Row Prisoners [March 24]
The number of California prisoners on death row is 743. Death Row Inmates by State and Size of Death Row by Year [January 1]
$100 for a 56K modem
The USB modem at Amazon.com is $10-$20 and works just fine with your Win 8, Mac or Linux system.