People in China needs to deal with Americans and Europeans. People in Africa need to deal with people from Asia... We can no longer afford to live in our little boxes.
Which has been the case for thousands of years. For example, demographically speaking, Genghis Khan spread his Mongolian seed among numerous diverse cultures, such that 0.5% of all men today have potential Y-chromosomal lineage.
Buzzwords: string enough of them together and you too can be a Chief Diversity Officer.
It seems to me that Gentoo has settled into a core group of users who have been using it for years and its popularity percentage has stabilized at that level. My primary workstation has been Gentoo since 2004 (with an occasional emerge @world when I buy new hardware). In that time I've noticed on the forums a number of regular users who have been there as long as I have. I suspect a large number of those users are like me--engineers, software developers, and other folks with technical backgrounds who aren't afraid of compiling code and in fact like having all the libraries and sources right at hand. In other words, a bunch of graybeards (look at the slashdot user numbers on this sub-thread.)
Other distributions have that artificial separation between users and developers because the vast majority of users aren't developers and don't care if the headers are present; most of them have no clue how to compile from source and don't care to learn. Most Linux distros implement that artificial separation precisely because that's how it works on Mac and Windows.
Yup. I love mutt's html-dump mode; it shows me all the links (including the 1x1 bitmaps) and lets me pick and choose which ones I want to copy and paste to a real browser. 99% of the time the answer is 'none of them'. I suspect AMP-dump mode will function similarly.
The big problem with HTML email (or AMP) for us mutt-users is the wasted bandwidth when they actually include all those mime-attachments inline, clogging our mbox's with octet-junk.
Did Microsoft invent cloud computing? No. Would Microsoft have invented cloud computing? No. Microsoft is increasingly playing catch-up to open source innovation, and quite frankly, is falling further behind with each technology shift. Microsoft realizes this too, which is why you see more and more Microsoft products going open source. It's better for Microsoft if the next innovation is created by a developer re-imagining and building off a Microsoft open source tool than from a competitor's.
This a thousand times. I started writing code when I got my first TRS-80 in high school (yes I'm old). I was a Microsoft fan until the mid '90s, when they started charging for MSDN subscriptions. That was the final straw. I dumped Windows for Linux and NetBIOS for TCP/IP and never looked back. Most of the folks on this thread simply don't get it--Open Source is not about the end-user, it's all about the *developer* and his or her ability to get work done. Particularly when that work is creating new ways of doing things, new ideas, new technologies, and new approaches.
If Microsoft won the networking wars and there was no open IETF would the Internet we know today exist? Not a chance. Likewise, if an MSDN subscription costing thousands of dollars a year was the only way to develop and test an internationalized application, most developers today would be nothing but code monkeys working for a handful of large corporations working on a relative handful of applications. The rate of innovation would have been a tiny fraction of what it is today. Open source is what made the LAMP stack and the Internet possible. It is what made huge server farms possible. It is what made Android possible. It is what made the Rasberry Pi possible. And it is what will make the new technologies of tomorrow possible. Open source has always been about freeing the developer, not the end user.
You nailed the real problem. Let's not forget that a number of telecoms also actively lobby for (and win) legislation against any form of community broadband, condemning vast areas of the country outside of urban centers to outrageously expensive wireless or dial-up.
So true. However, I'm continually amazed at the number of projects written in C which still manage to break their APIs on a regular basis. In the final analysis it's not a language thing, it's a crappy developer thing.
Actually, the HAM radio example is a bad one. Broadcasting pop music of any sort is verboten on the amateur service, and the FCC will come looking for you for good reason--it's an abuse of the service.
Civil disobedience is refusing to sit at the back of the bus, or chaining oneself to a tree. Such an act puts the person engaged in it at risk, but that makes it a noble effort. Rioting, burning and destroying property puts others at risk and is the act of a selfish coward, particularly when done while wearing a mask. Antifa and KKK, same difference. Rioting is not civil disobedience.
I guess the anti-Trump protests are neither smart nor well run because all I hear about, even from networks with an obvious agenda like CNN, are antifa causing mayhem.
I was going to post something like this, but you beat me to it. With so many techies on this site you'd think a few of them could at least do the math. It's fairly simple to calculate the amount of power required in KWH to replace X number of vehicles driving around using Y horsepower. What it sums up to is the need to massively overhaul an aging and insufficient electric grid infrastructure. By 2040? Not going to happen. Sure, some folks may have enough space and sun to roll their own PV, but the entire car-driving population? Think again.
Back in the '80s and '90s many of the sales people were HAMs or retired engineers getting out of the house and making a little money on the side. If I needed a 74LS08 or a 5K pot, they knew exactly what I was talking about and where they were. That all changed once the cellphone debacle started. I knew those guys, and they all had the same experience you had. Sad.
Yup. We actually had two Radio Shacks in my small town, both owned by the same franchisee. The great thing about the franchise stores was that the owner had a lot of say in what the store could carry. In our two stores the franchisee was very tech-focused (as many of the independent franchisees were) and would carry Jimpack parts and dozens of other non-Radio Shack brands as well. Awesome stores for the hobbyist. However, Tandy went on the 'identical retail' push in the '90s along with many other retailers, trying to make every store in the chain identical in (crappy) parts and service. They eventually bought out and/or closed down all the old original franchisees, which IMO helped contribute to the long slow demise of Radio Shack.
Have you ever actually installed an embedded Linux system using something like Yocto? Or are you just making money on the side posting anonymously for Microsoft?
As a (anonymous coward) specialist, you should then also be aware that the vast majority of those Linux exploits are DOS or other flaws that do not pose an existential threat to the OS and filesystem itself due to the vastly superior Unix security and update model.
Still, this particular exploit--like most successful ones--depends primarily on clueless users. There is no operating system on the planet that can withstand a determined assault from a clueless user.
Replace it with a salary auction for the limited number of H-1Bs available. A company would 'buy' H-1Bs by bidding a minimum yearly salary for each visa, which it would then be required to pay the visa holder for the duration of the visa. The company with the highest bid wins the visa. Cap the number of visas available such that the minimum winning bids average 10% more than the salary paid to an American worker for the same job. That would allow Google and Microsoft to buy as many of the offshore geniuses as they want (or can afford), while putting a fork in the IT outsourcing firms who game the current lottery system.
Total bull. Europe was originally colonized by former Africans. And in the 6th century the Moors (Berbers, Arabs, and other dark-skinned folks from Africa and the Mid-East) ruled a good chunk of southern Europe for 700 years. These folks brought a lot of civilization and science to what was then a medieval Europe rather overrun with Barbaric tribes. The great civilizations of the Mid-East and Northern Africa then fell into ruin (not to mention being overrun by Mongol hordes) while Europe suddenly entered the Renaissance period, using a lot of what they had learned from the African Moors. The Europeans no more 'stole' all the natural resources of Africa then the Africans 'stole' the natural resources of Europe when they were the civilization in charge.
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Incas, Mayans, the Han Dynasty, the Great Caliphate, the 'West'; great civilizations arise because they bring a new and successful culture to the world stage. The shitholes of the world today are shitholes because of their current culture (bribery, corruption, tribalism, misogyny, etc.), not their skin color. Tomorrow, they might be the next Rome. Not because of some skin pigmentation, but because they somehow reinvented themselves and brought a new, dynamic culture to the world that improved life for the majority of folks. You anti-Western folks are really nothing more than apologists for crappy cultures.
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None of the cars I drove as a teen had power steering, or power brakes. Kids these days.
People in China needs to deal with Americans and Europeans. People in Africa need to deal with people from Asia... We can no longer afford to live in our little boxes.
Which has been the case for thousands of years. For example, demographically speaking, Genghis Khan spread his Mongolian seed among numerous diverse cultures, such that 0.5% of all men today have potential Y-chromosomal lineage.
Buzzwords: string enough of them together and you too can be a Chief Diversity Officer.
It seems to me that Gentoo has settled into a core group of users who have been using it for years and its popularity percentage has stabilized at that level. My primary workstation has been Gentoo since 2004 (with an occasional emerge @world when I buy new hardware). In that time I've noticed on the forums a number of regular users who have been there as long as I have. I suspect a large number of those users are like me--engineers, software developers, and other folks with technical backgrounds who aren't afraid of compiling code and in fact like having all the libraries and sources right at hand. In other words, a bunch of graybeards (look at the slashdot user numbers on this sub-thread.)
Other distributions have that artificial separation between users and developers because the vast majority of users aren't developers and don't care if the headers are present; most of them have no clue how to compile from source and don't care to learn. Most Linux distros implement that artificial separation precisely because that's how it works on Mac and Windows.
it's the asteroid that it knocks out of the asteroid belt into a collision course with Earth that's the problem.
Yup. I love mutt's html-dump mode; it shows me all the links (including the 1x1 bitmaps) and lets me pick and choose which ones I want to copy and paste to a real browser. 99% of the time the answer is 'none of them'. I suspect AMP-dump mode will function similarly.
The big problem with HTML email (or AMP) for us mutt-users is the wasted bandwidth when they actually include all those mime-attachments inline, clogging our mbox's with octet-junk.
Got that 8051 runnng yet?
Did Microsoft invent cloud computing? No. Would Microsoft have invented cloud computing? No. Microsoft is increasingly playing catch-up to open source innovation, and quite frankly, is falling further behind with each technology shift. Microsoft realizes this too, which is why you see more and more Microsoft products going open source. It's better for Microsoft if the next innovation is created by a developer re-imagining and building off a Microsoft open source tool than from a competitor's.
This a thousand times. I started writing code when I got my first TRS-80 in high school (yes I'm old). I was a Microsoft fan until the mid '90s, when they started charging for MSDN subscriptions. That was the final straw. I dumped Windows for Linux and NetBIOS for TCP/IP and never looked back. Most of the folks on this thread simply don't get it--Open Source is not about the end-user, it's all about the *developer* and his or her ability to get work done. Particularly when that work is creating new ways of doing things, new ideas, new technologies, and new approaches.
If Microsoft won the networking wars and there was no open IETF would the Internet we know today exist? Not a chance. Likewise, if an MSDN subscription costing thousands of dollars a year was the only way to develop and test an internationalized application, most developers today would be nothing but code monkeys working for a handful of large corporations working on a relative handful of applications. The rate of innovation would have been a tiny fraction of what it is today. Open source is what made the LAMP stack and the Internet possible. It is what made huge server farms possible. It is what made Android possible. It is what made the Rasberry Pi possible. And it is what will make the new technologies of tomorrow possible. Open source has always been about freeing the developer, not the end user.
You nailed the real problem. Let's not forget that a number of telecoms also actively lobby for (and win) legislation against any form of community broadband, condemning vast areas of the country outside of urban centers to outrageously expensive wireless or dial-up.
So true. However, I'm continually amazed at the number of projects written in C which still manage to break their APIs on a regular basis. In the final analysis it's not a language thing, it's a crappy developer thing.
I'm still waiting for the IPv4 to IPv6 transition.
Same here. As Gentoo is my primary desktop I'm staying away from these latest AMD parts until the bugs are sorted out.
Actually, the HAM radio example is a bad one. Broadcasting pop music of any sort is verboten on the amateur service, and the FCC will come looking for you for good reason--it's an abuse of the service.
Civil disobedience is refusing to sit at the back of the bus, or chaining oneself to a tree. Such an act puts the person engaged in it at risk, but that makes it a noble effort. Rioting, burning and destroying property puts others at risk and is the act of a selfish coward, particularly when done while wearing a mask. Antifa and KKK, same difference. Rioting is not civil disobedience.
I guess the anti-Trump protests are neither smart nor well run because all I hear about, even from networks with an obvious agenda like CNN, are antifa causing mayhem.
Correct.
I was going to post something like this, but you beat me to it. With so many techies on this site you'd think a few of them could at least do the math. It's fairly simple to calculate the amount of power required in KWH to replace X number of vehicles driving around using Y horsepower. What it sums up to is the need to massively overhaul an aging and insufficient electric grid infrastructure. By 2040? Not going to happen. Sure, some folks may have enough space and sun to roll their own PV, but the entire car-driving population? Think again.
Back in the '80s and '90s many of the sales people were HAMs or retired engineers getting out of the house and making a little money on the side. If I needed a 74LS08 or a 5K pot, they knew exactly what I was talking about and where they were. That all changed once the cellphone debacle started. I knew those guys, and they all had the same experience you had. Sad.
Yup. We actually had two Radio Shacks in my small town, both owned by the same franchisee. The great thing about the franchise stores was that the owner had a lot of say in what the store could carry. In our two stores the franchisee was very tech-focused (as many of the independent franchisees were) and would carry Jimpack parts and dozens of other non-Radio Shack brands as well. Awesome stores for the hobbyist. However, Tandy went on the 'identical retail' push in the '90s along with many other retailers, trying to make every store in the chain identical in (crappy) parts and service. They eventually bought out and/or closed down all the old original franchisees, which IMO helped contribute to the long slow demise of Radio Shack.
Dry dogs smell OK to me, but wet dogs definitely smell worse than wet humans.
Have you ever actually installed an embedded Linux system using something like Yocto? Or are you just making money on the side posting anonymously for Microsoft?
As a (anonymous coward) specialist, you should then also be aware that the vast majority of those Linux exploits are DOS or other flaws that do not pose an existential threat to the OS and filesystem itself due to the vastly superior Unix security and update model.
Still, this particular exploit--like most successful ones--depends primarily on clueless users. There is no operating system on the planet that can withstand a determined assault from a clueless user.
Sounds like a good solution to the Pacific ocean plastic garbage patch though.
Replace it with a salary auction for the limited number of H-1Bs available. A company would 'buy' H-1Bs by bidding a minimum yearly salary for each visa, which it would then be required to pay the visa holder for the duration of the visa. The company with the highest bid wins the visa. Cap the number of visas available such that the minimum winning bids average 10% more than the salary paid to an American worker for the same job. That would allow Google and Microsoft to buy as many of the offshore geniuses as they want (or can afford), while putting a fork in the IT outsourcing firms who game the current lottery system.
Total bull. Europe was originally colonized by former Africans. And in the 6th century the Moors (Berbers, Arabs, and other dark-skinned folks from Africa and the Mid-East) ruled a good chunk of southern Europe for 700 years. These folks brought a lot of civilization and science to what was then a medieval Europe rather overrun with Barbaric tribes. The great civilizations of the Mid-East and Northern Africa then fell into ruin (not to mention being overrun by Mongol hordes) while Europe suddenly entered the Renaissance period, using a lot of what they had learned from the African Moors. The Europeans no more 'stole' all the natural resources of Africa then the Africans 'stole' the natural resources of Europe when they were the civilization in charge.
Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Incas, Mayans, the Han Dynasty, the Great Caliphate, the 'West'; great civilizations arise because they bring a new and successful culture to the world stage. The shitholes of the world today are shitholes because of their current culture (bribery, corruption, tribalism, misogyny, etc.), not their skin color. Tomorrow, they might be the next Rome. Not because of some skin pigmentation, but because they somehow reinvented themselves and brought a new, dynamic culture to the world that improved life for the majority of folks. You anti-Western folks are really nothing more than apologists for crappy cultures.
Or worse yet, manage to 'lose it' like the team that made that carbon thing recently.