systemd centralizes logging as opposed to the absurd mess of logfiles spewed all over the filesystem that we had before (and where processes could easily spoof log messages from other processes). For that reason alone I see it as a positive.
Battery cases prove SOME people like fatter phones, but they are a minority.
The free market is supposed to cater for niches, too. What seems to have happened is we have a bunch of Android smartphone manufacturers competing to make their phones identical to the iPhone, and ignoring everyone else. This seems like a market failure.
Let us not forget that one of Trump's major talking points is to send Syrian refugees back home.
Ah, so skipping over the white people thing. Because it does look, frankly, like our leaders are trying to flood us out and replace us with darker skinned people, for whatever reason.
You know, to that country that is in the middle of a brutal civil war?
Yes, I do know that country. It's on the other side of the world from the USA, with many safe (enough) countries between the two for asylum.
To refresh your memory, it appears that just the other day the the Assad regime used chlorine gas on the people of Aleppo. It wasn't the first time Assad has used chemical weapons on his own people. Unfortunately, it probably won't be the last. So, yes, almost quite literally, Trump does appear to plan on sending people to the gas chambers.
What utter bullshit. We don't have to take responsibility for what other people do. I certainly won't. I meant *US* sending people to the gas chambers. Are we to blame for all the women who get raped in African civil wars too?
Well, we are talking about a guy who, quite literally, can be sent on a days-long twitter rant by even the most trivial of (perceived) slights. I just shudder to think what Trump might do if he has his finger on the nuclear button.
Give me a break. He isn't insane. Hillary is more likely to start a war with Putin than Trump (listen to some of her past rants).
I hear people spouting off alt-right shit all over the place, here and the other site, at the gas station, the grocery store, etc. It scares the bejeezus out of me.
What exactly are you so scared of? That white people might actually retain one or two countries in the world where they're in a majority? That immigrants turned down will be sent to the gas chambers? Or that Trump will start World War 3 by declaring war with Putin?
So all advertisers are hyper-sensitive about their ads theoretically being linked with some content that is theoretically controversial because it contains charged political rhetoric or something?
I find that hard to believe.
And do all advertisers want the same treatment? What if I WANT my company to be associated with edgy political incorrectness, but not fluffy kittens or make-up tutorials? I guess I'm SOL with Youtube, huh?
I used to think that maybe this kind of thing was a good idea, but I've changed my mind. There are all sorts of reasons you might not want to use HTTPS for a website, usually revolving around the fact that it is just a pain in the ass to set up and maintain (especially if you run your own server). It's often overkill during development, or in a situation where you're piggybacking on an already-secure connection like SSH.
I suspect this is all to do with the desire of big corporations like Google to make the web more of a place for people with $$$. The money and time to setup and maintain SSL infrastructure.
And yeah I know you can use Let's Encrypt... if you're happy to put up with ludicrously short certificate expiration times, or install their software on your server and configure it to work with whatever you're serving your certs with (good luck if it's not Apache). But that sucks, frankly.
First thing I do before buying an Android phone is make sure there's a root method and supporting decent mod. First thing I do after buying an Android phone is root it, remove the crap the manufacturer put on there, and install decent mod.
With MS customers, "breaking point" seems to literally be "breaking" point. Like, unless you totally break their computer to the point of being unusable, they will use Microsoft shit. Telemetry? No problem. Ads? No problem. Shitty UI? No problem. Forced updates? No problem. Forced reboots? No problem. Stupid app store? No problem. Random lockups when using SSD? No problem. Massive updates that cause bugs all the time? No problem. Regular accidental-on-purpose resets of your privacy settings? No problem. Etc...
And this was precisely the reason why I have switched to Windows 10. Windows 7 lacks support of some more modern hardware and when installing it a shitload of patches had to be installed afterwards.
So you're rewarding Microsoft et al for their shitty behaviour. Well done, take a bow. Hope you like getting fucked up the ass.
Basically, you get major asshole points if you don't adhere to it, and you get the cooperation of free (volunteer), skilled programmers if you do - it's a matter of incentivisation.
It needs to be legally binding. Microsoft don't mind pissing off their own users! I hardly think they'll mind pissing off some Linux developers.
So is the main advantage of 3d NAND technology going to be access speed? I thought it was going to be able to enormously increase capacity, but with the drives coming in between 128GB and 1TB (similar sizes to existing drives), maybe I got the wrong idea.
Presumably because it violates the sacred Unix doctrine of "a program should do one thing, and do it well". Personally I've thought that doctrine has been out of date for some time now, having set up and configured one or two Linux e-mail servers (I just want a fucking MS Exchange equivalent where I can install one thing and have SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Webmail, etc.)
I'm also a cross-platform kind of guy, but I find myself on Windows machines most of the time. Microsoft actually did the right thing with Windows 10, walking back some of the 8.x "touch-only, tablet-only" craziness. It's not Windows 7, but in my mind it's a good compromise between the two worlds.
You can't just ignore the fundamental problems of Windows 10. It's endless telemetry, shoving ads in your face, basically turning the OS into software-as-a-service. This for me is a total dealbreaker, no matter what they've done with the UI.
As an aside, I *hate* the Windows 10 UI. The new control panel is extremely bland looking, and the icons tend to be tiny, composed of black-on-white or white-on-$background_color. Compared to the colourful Windows 7 icons they are horrible.
Who the hell has "gleefully adopted" Windows 10 apart from MS fanbois? It's so appalling I'm literally thinking of quitting.NET development rather than eventually being forced to use it.
And no, its UI isn't even good. It's shitty monochrome icons and minimalistic 2d bullshit. Windows 7 and Mint Cinnamon look a lot nicer.
Apple is always bitching about simplification. One button mice, as few cords as possible, thinner etc etc.
Thinner isn't simplification, it's just thinner. When we already have stupidly thin phones. Apple has digital anorexia. I wonder whether their roadmap is to get their phones down to 1 Planck length wide?
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systemd centralizes logging as opposed to the absurd mess of logfiles spewed all over the filesystem that we had before (and where processes could easily spoof log messages from other processes). For that reason alone I see it as a positive.
If this happened on Windows, I & many others would be scornful of it.
Microsoft would just call it a feature and make it force-reboot your machine too. And MS fanbois would start liking it.
Battery cases prove SOME people like fatter phones, but they are a minority.
The free market is supposed to cater for niches, too. What seems to have happened is we have a bunch of Android smartphone manufacturers competing to make their phones identical to the iPhone, and ignoring everyone else. This seems like a market failure.
That phone already exists, it's called an LG G3. Oh and it comes with a better operating system. ;-)
Ok, what's the catch? Why would MS spend even one man-hour working on this thing?
MS hate Windows 10 so much they're planning to switch over to Linux internally.
Let us not forget that one of Trump's major talking points is to send Syrian refugees back home.
Ah, so skipping over the white people thing. Because it does look, frankly, like our leaders are trying to flood us out and replace us with darker skinned people, for whatever reason.
You know, to that country that is in the middle of a brutal civil war?
Yes, I do know that country. It's on the other side of the world from the USA, with many safe (enough) countries between the two for asylum.
To refresh your memory, it appears that just the other day the the Assad regime used chlorine gas on the people of Aleppo. It wasn't the first time Assad has used chemical weapons on his own people. Unfortunately, it probably won't be the last. So, yes, almost quite literally, Trump does appear to plan on sending people to the gas chambers.
What utter bullshit. We don't have to take responsibility for what other people do. I certainly won't. I meant *US* sending people to the gas chambers. Are we to blame for all the women who get raped in African civil wars too?
Well, we are talking about a guy who, quite literally, can be sent on a days-long twitter rant by even the most trivial of (perceived) slights. I just shudder to think what Trump might do if he has his finger on the nuclear button.
Give me a break. He isn't insane. Hillary is more likely to start a war with Putin than Trump (listen to some of her past rants).
I hear people spouting off alt-right shit all over the place, here and the other site, at the gas station, the grocery store, etc. It scares the bejeezus out of me.
What exactly are you so scared of? That white people might actually retain one or two countries in the world where they're in a majority? That immigrants turned down will be sent to the gas chambers? Or that Trump will start World War 3 by declaring war with Putin?
pass data back and forth statelessly over HTTP. The web is great for that. Or for rendering things that are actually documents.
It's almost as if the web were designed for that in the first place.
We did. It's minds.com, and everyone should switch to it. It is much more dedicated to protecting free speech.
So all advertisers are hyper-sensitive about their ads theoretically being linked with some content that is theoretically controversial because it contains charged political rhetoric or something?
I find that hard to believe.
And do all advertisers want the same treatment? What if I WANT my company to be associated with edgy political incorrectness, but not fluffy kittens or make-up tutorials? I guess I'm SOL with Youtube, huh?
I used to think that maybe this kind of thing was a good idea, but I've changed my mind. There are all sorts of reasons you might not want to use HTTPS for a website, usually revolving around the fact that it is just a pain in the ass to set up and maintain (especially if you run your own server). It's often overkill during development, or in a situation where you're piggybacking on an already-secure connection like SSH.
I suspect this is all to do with the desire of big corporations like Google to make the web more of a place for people with $$$. The money and time to setup and maintain SSL infrastructure.
And yeah I know you can use Let's Encrypt... if you're happy to put up with ludicrously short certificate expiration times, or install their software on your server and configure it to work with whatever you're serving your certs with (good luck if it's not Apache). But that sucks, frankly.
Sounds like you shouldn't have kept dropping the phone in the fire. I have a G3 with CyanogenMod and it works great.
First thing I do before buying an Android phone is make sure there's a root method and supporting decent mod. First thing I do after buying an Android phone is root it, remove the crap the manufacturer put on there, and install decent mod.
With MS customers, "breaking point" seems to literally be "breaking" point. Like, unless you totally break their computer to the point of being unusable, they will use Microsoft shit. Telemetry? No problem. Ads? No problem. Shitty UI? No problem. Forced updates? No problem. Forced reboots? No problem. Stupid app store? No problem. Random lockups when using SSD? No problem. Massive updates that cause bugs all the time? No problem. Regular accidental-on-purpose resets of your privacy settings? No problem. Etc...
And this was precisely the reason why I have switched to Windows 10. Windows 7 lacks support of some more modern hardware and when installing it a shitload of patches had to be installed afterwards.
So you're rewarding Microsoft et al for their shitty behaviour. Well done, take a bow. Hope you like getting fucked up the ass.
Basically, you get major asshole points if you don't adhere to it, and you get the cooperation of free (volunteer), skilled programmers if you do - it's a matter of incentivisation.
It needs to be legally binding. Microsoft don't mind pissing off their own users! I hardly think they'll mind pissing off some Linux developers.
Quite hard to do with HDDs. I tried doing that once outdoors with a sledge hammer and I broke one of my patio tiles.
So is the main advantage of 3d NAND technology going to be access speed? I thought it was going to be able to enormously increase capacity, but with the drives coming in between 128GB and 1TB (similar sizes to existing drives), maybe I got the wrong idea.
You're certainly right about Exchange being an example of a program that neither does only one thing, nor does it well.
That must be why loads of businesses are willing to pay lots of money to keep using it, to point of strong vendor lock-in.
Presumably because it violates the sacred Unix doctrine of "a program should do one thing, and do it well". Personally I've thought that doctrine has been out of date for some time now, having set up and configured one or two Linux e-mail servers (I just want a fucking MS Exchange equivalent where I can install one thing and have SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Webmail, etc.)
I'm also a cross-platform kind of guy, but I find myself on Windows machines most of the time. Microsoft actually did the right thing with Windows 10, walking back some of the 8.x "touch-only, tablet-only" craziness. It's not Windows 7, but in my mind it's a good compromise between the two worlds.
You can't just ignore the fundamental problems of Windows 10. It's endless telemetry, shoving ads in your face, basically turning the OS into software-as-a-service. This for me is a total dealbreaker, no matter what they've done with the UI.
As an aside, I *hate* the Windows 10 UI. The new control panel is extremely bland looking, and the icons tend to be tiny, composed of black-on-white or white-on-$background_color. Compared to the colourful Windows 7 icons they are horrible.
Who the hell has "gleefully adopted" Windows 10 apart from MS fanbois? It's so appalling I'm literally thinking of quitting .NET development rather than eventually being forced to use it.
And no, its UI isn't even good. It's shitty monochrome icons and minimalistic 2d bullshit. Windows 7 and Mint Cinnamon look a lot nicer.
... complain more.
Apple is always bitching about simplification. One button mice, as few cords as possible, thinner etc etc.
Thinner isn't simplification, it's just thinner. When we already have stupidly thin phones. Apple has digital anorexia. I wonder whether their roadmap is to get their phones down to 1 Planck length wide?
Don't forget to piss on it.