I love how when you login you get the SunOS version. uname also reports the SunOS version. Then you do a cat/etc/release and you get the Solaris version. Then isainfo -kv if you want to find out what architecture you are on.
That's why I used the phrase "assert control". You can tell people what to do, but until you have the means to make them do it you are not a government.
Yes, I should have started with a disclaimer that I wasn't talking about the Slashdot crowd:)
The first thing I do whether my phone is an iPhone or (currently) an Android is root/jailbreak it and install ssh... it's my preferred way of updating my ports on my FreeBSD machine since it stops so frequently.
I agree... and don't. It's certainly not a traditional Windows machine crammed into a pocket computer. It's something for people to surf the web, check their email, do their social network thing, look at the weather, listen to music/watch videos - all the things they use a "computer" for besides work (unless you count email). But there is almost zero time spent on configuration, debugging, etc. People do change background pictures and ringtones and things like that, but they certainly don't interact with the OS in a way they are conscious of. It's always a bit jarring when you have to deal with an actual file location in Android - for the most part the whole file system has been abstracted away. In iOS, it is completely abstracted away.
Since you are pedantic and might actually know why you are correcting someone - why is it that we can anglicize certain country names and not others. Why is it perfectly proper to Make Colon's name into Columbus, but the country named after him retains the "o" when spelled in English, even though place names inside of the US with the same origin are spelled with a "u"? We spell Brasil as Brazil, for instance.
I guess that is my point - they need not "dilute their brand". Lure people in with outrageous search results, but then any internal links stay respectable.
Sexing up headlines was always a tabloid thing and is somewhat frowned upon in serious papers. I don't think regular readers would appreciate reading 'Mitt Romney is 'Squandering' Candidacy With Health Care Snafu' in the WSJ.
This is the sort of thinking that I think is killing the papers. I agree with you 100% if this were a traditional paper, but in the online realm it costs nothing to publish the same story with multiple headlines targeting different groups. WSJ could have a "Yellow Journalism" headline (or headlines) to grab search engine hits and a respectable headline for their subscribers.
I'm generally not a big MS fan, but I have always liked their hardware. Their mice seem higher-quality than Logitech's, even though they are probably made in the same factory:)
I agree! Also, some idiots don't bolt their computers in fireproof boxes in their safe room with keypad access and bank vault security. Really, people need to be more careful with their data!
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This actually does solve a real world problem
Use case?
I love how when you login you get the SunOS version. uname also reports the SunOS version. Then you do a cat /etc/release and you get the Solaris version. Then isainfo -kv if you want to find out what architecture you are on.
Now that's a hot mess.
That's why I used the phrase "assert control". You can tell people what to do, but until you have the means to make them do it you are not a government.
In other words, I think we agree :)
I felt the same way, but then realized that "Firefox" is now the main version number much like OSX is more or less stuck at 10 forever.
Yes, I should have started with a disclaimer that I wasn't talking about the Slashdot crowd :)
The first thing I do whether my phone is an iPhone or (currently) an Android is root/jailbreak it and install ssh... it's my preferred way of updating my ports on my FreeBSD machine since it stops so frequently.
It's a pocket computer.
I agree... and don't. It's certainly not a traditional Windows machine crammed into a pocket computer. It's something for people to surf the web, check their email, do their social network thing, look at the weather, listen to music/watch videos - all the things they use a "computer" for besides work (unless you count email). But there is almost zero time spent on configuration, debugging, etc. People do change background pictures and ringtones and things like that, but they certainly don't interact with the OS in a way they are conscious of. It's always a bit jarring when you have to deal with an actual file location in Android - for the most part the whole file system has been abstracted away. In iOS, it is completely abstracted away.
I hate copyright as much as the next Slashdotter, but there is a huge difference between commercial speech and political speech.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario involving copyright where a political movement could be suppressed.
Since you are pedantic and might actually know why you are correcting someone - why is it that we can anglicize certain country names and not others. Why is it perfectly proper to Make Colon's name into Columbus, but the country named after him retains the "o" when spelled in English, even though place names inside of the US with the same origin are spelled with a "u"? We spell Brasil as Brazil, for instance.
It's a government as soon as the organization asserts control over others.
The Post is older. The Daily News isn't that old, but has been published since the 1920s. Those are just the two most (in)famous New York tabloids.
In Philly, the respectable daily is the Inquirer, which predates the Civil War - but there is a tabloid called the Daily News which dates to the 20s.
I guess that is my point - they need not "dilute their brand". Lure people in with outrageous search results, but then any internal links stay respectable.
That's a good one! I'm going to use it.
Since I married a black woman, anything I use besides the typical Airplane "I take it black" works to surprise people :)
It won't happen - trashy headlines predate the internet and are a time-tested way to get attention.
Sexing up headlines was always a tabloid thing and is somewhat frowned upon in serious papers. I don't think regular readers would appreciate reading 'Mitt Romney is 'Squandering' Candidacy With Health Care Snafu' in the WSJ.
This is the sort of thinking that I think is killing the papers. I agree with you 100% if this were a traditional paper, but in the online realm it costs nothing to publish the same story with multiple headlines targeting different groups. WSJ could have a "Yellow Journalism" headline (or headlines) to grab search engine hits and a respectable headline for their subscribers.
I thought you were going with cold and bitter.
Maybe they needed capacity and hadn't finished transitioning to 7 yet? They have until 2014, so it's not THAT stupid.
Well, they dropped it from the base release about a year ago but it is still there as a plugin.
But html editing... in Word?
Forgive me if I'm being ignorant, but are you giving MS credit for CSS?
I'm generally not a big MS fan, but I have always liked their hardware. Their mice seem higher-quality than Logitech's, even though they are probably made in the same factory :)
It's perfectly cromulent.
I'll let Dr. Seuss know :)
If you aren't polishing your tinfoil on BOTH SIDES you might as well just throw your files at the terrorists.
I agree! Also, some idiots don't bolt their computers in fireproof boxes in their safe room with keypad access and bank vault security. Really, people need to be more careful with their data!
I wrap all my files in tinfoil before uploading to the cloud.