No doubt we'll see more of this type of article for the next year as the drive to bury XP intensifies. It's not going to yield the results they expect, but hey.
Or tethered kite wind power generators, solar plants. Or asteroid mines, network technologies, methods of manipulating big data. Free open source video codecs for all, an OS for my lightbulbs, a library for ALL the books. And on and on.
"especially" is not "exclusively". He included all others explicitly there, and then went on as if iPads were the only tablet when they're not. Android tablets can run a proper OS, and much of the myriad open-source ware going back to the 1960's if you put a proper OS on them - and you can. That makes the device a general purpose computer. It's not how most use it, nor what drives sales, but it is the property that defines the thing - and so creates its name.
His dig at iPads might be appropriate but opening that up to the general case of all tablets when most tablets sold today are Android tablets is disingenuous, untrue, and ripe for correction.
As for Surface of all sorts, including the Pro... good luck with that. Eighteen years and no winners.
Also why a tablet is not a PC is you still can't, for the most part, develop on it.
This is completely untrue. I have a cheapie $100 quad-core ARM tablet with Android. I can put Ubuntu on it, connect it to a 1080p external display, keyboard and mouse, and edit and compile apps and even kernels directly on the device - not only for this device but for nearly any GCC target architecture. I can even farm out the compilation chore. Dozens of languages and development tools are available. It would not be my first choice for a development platform, but I've done a lot worse.
Hell, if I wanted I could host a few dozen websites on it in nginx or Apache, or attach and share some USB storage and call it a server. I'm not going to do that either, but I could.
You seem to be defining the category of hardware by the software running on it. That is not appropriate. Why not go whole hog and say "if it doesn't have Windows, it's not a PC"? Then we know what you're really saying.
In many offices there is that passive-agressive document weenie who demands the newest version of Office on launch day. And then he dives 2000 pages into the documentation to find the features to put in his documents that he sends to everybody else who doesn't have the latest version so they can't open them. Usually it's an HR person, and that's where they hide the leave request form - which is innately so simple a document it should be a text message.
Photoshop also has a vast installed base of pirate users who think stealing a very expensive program is superior to using any sort of free one because if they charge a lot of money for it, it must be better.
Part of the purpose of Attachmate acquiring Novell out of bankruptcy was to prevent WordPerfect from being ported back to Linux and letting the legal community have their WordPerfect back. Wordperfect never worked well for long in Windows before Windows was updated to prevent it. In Linux it would be a sustainable package. Attachmate is a puppet.
Ironically the ability to run WordPerfect was originally a huge selling point for Windows.
Was he calling for some random third party then? Why didn't he name it and give it hope? He didn't because he's a Republican and wants to blame the NSA on President Obama and the Democrats as if a shift in executive party would fix this problem.
As for myself I'm of the "a pox on both their houses" party so your assessment is invalid. I'd be an anarchist if they could get their shit together but of course, being anarchists, they can't.
A change of Presidential party or Congressional control isn't going to fix this. The problem is far deeper than that.
I can bring myself to barely tolerate partisan politics for up to six months before a general election and one week after in concession to the necessary political process. That's it: six months every two years is all these mouthbreathers get. Other than that I'm going to be a nuisance about it. These people need to give it a rest. We cannot keep fighting about who's pretending they're in charge every single day of every year. We've got real shit to do.
My god you partisan idiots don't give up when silly season is over. It's like a special form of retardation to drag your partisan politics into every realm of life even out of season, without reason or cause - to make every news event your rallying cry. I wish you all would suffocate on your own bile.
The NSA was founded in 1949 by Harry Truman. It has thrived across so many different administrations and congresses of every stripe that it must be assumed to be immune to partisan politics.
And this isn't the only shadow agency in the US government. At my last count there were seventeen.
These agencies operate of the foundation of "don't get caught". There will be nothing provable that will be admitted before any court anywhere. Likely some poor judge will try until he has a drunk driving incident, or is revealed as a closet pedophile (much to his own surprise) and is recused.
Actually it's kind of incredible to me that the NSA's astroturf brigade is not as active and effective as Microsoft's. Maybe reputation management isn't their thing.
I am not. For a genocidal bioweapon to kill everybody with a specific gene marker that identifies a "target" it has to propagate through all mankind to hit all the isolated pockets of populations. The non-targeted people must be afflicted carriers who are mostly not killed. Otherwise it is simply an area weapon and even then might get out of hand.
It is sadly possible to design a DNA-targeted bioweapon. But to kill one human a virus or bacterium must multiply billions of times. Every reproduction is a potential error and every afflicted human will have a few - and you are correct that most mutations die. Billions of reproductions times billions of humans equate to billions of mutations though, and some few survive to wreak untold horror on the untargeted populations.
So it is that DNA targeted bioweapons sadly can be created but happily cannot be controlled. The first one will kill us all. Eventually somebody will be both skilled enough to do it and dumb enough to try it. Hopefully not soon.
Want to think a scary thought: a DNA-targeted bioweapon can be developed to target Down's syndrome, susceptibility to arthritis or heart disease, excessive risk taking, alcoholic/drug dependency tendencies or intelligence - or the lack thereof among other things. Maybe we should be afraid of health insurance companies.
I'm afraid that without the unpleasant consequences of martyrdom the standard social inertia cannot be overcome. It is the brutality of the oppression of the martyr that incites the rebellion, not his call for social change. The martyr accepts that he's going to be oppressed and acts for change anyway. That is what makes martyrs special. We had this need long before the time of Jesus and I don't expect an end to it in my lifetime.
The law is wrong and needs to be changed. He did, in fact, break the law: he divulged state secrets entrusted to him under threat of severe penalty for disclosure. I believe he did the right thing, but it was still illegal. If you have strong moral convictions but not the will to expose yourself to punishment you should avoid this situation because the internal conflict between your will to do the right thing and your fear of punishment can drive you insane. In that case you are not martyr material.
Since this is the NSA he had to know they would find him - that's what they do. By outing himself he probably avoids some extrajudicial retirement. Nobody from here out is going to believe he locked himself in a duffel bag, or died of autoerotic asphyxiation, or overdosed on bath salts.
I'm not saying that he should be punished - only that he will. They'll get Julian Assange one day too, even if his punishment is to be hunted to the end of his days. By dragging it out so long that the defiant act becomes disassociated in the public mind with the tyrannical punishment the authorities may be doing themselves a favor and blunting the rebellion. But eventually Caesar gets what is Caesars until Caesar is no more.
Anyway, what do you care? By your own account you fled. You should probably fix or prevent the problems in your new home wherever it is. All politics are local. If things get too tough in your new home you can always find another one more to your liking. People who flee tyranny also do not martyrs make. Fleeing tyranny is for most the wisest course until there is no place to turn. If you've go the wit and will to make it anywhere and lack anchors like family and tradition, going to where the field is ripe with berries and the wolves are more like dachsunds is just smart. Win wherever you are! If things are going like you think our generation's version of the underground railroad is going to need another end. By building up resources to shelter refugees you can be that end. That seems to be a role you're more suited to than taking up arms against the tyrant.
Certainly if you intend to act, this is not the place to say so.
They do it to maintain their monopoly. That is more than enough reason for me.
What with the rise of mobile they seem to have lost the ability to prevent progress. And look at all the wonderful new things we get when that power is lost. Isn't it amazing?
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No doubt we'll see more of this type of article for the next year as the drive to bury XP intensifies. It's not going to yield the results they expect, but hey.
How about if you want a forum with censorship, you go find one?
Or tethered kite wind power generators, solar plants. Or asteroid mines, network technologies, methods of manipulating big data. Free open source video codecs for all, an OS for my lightbulbs, a library for ALL the books. And on and on.
When were they not? This is why we can't have nice things.
"especially" is not "exclusively". He included all others explicitly there, and then went on as if iPads were the only tablet when they're not. Android tablets can run a proper OS, and much of the myriad open-source ware going back to the 1960's if you put a proper OS on them - and you can. That makes the device a general purpose computer. It's not how most use it, nor what drives sales, but it is the property that defines the thing - and so creates its name.
His dig at iPads might be appropriate but opening that up to the general case of all tablets when most tablets sold today are Android tablets is disingenuous, untrue, and ripe for correction.
As for Surface of all sorts, including the Pro... good luck with that. Eighteen years and no winners.
That is not what he said. Are you mindreading, or is this an alt?
Also why a tablet is not a PC is you still can't, for the most part, develop on it.
This is completely untrue. I have a cheapie $100 quad-core ARM tablet with Android. I can put Ubuntu on it, connect it to a 1080p external display, keyboard and mouse, and edit and compile apps and even kernels directly on the device - not only for this device but for nearly any GCC target architecture. I can even farm out the compilation chore. Dozens of languages and development tools are available. It would not be my first choice for a development platform, but I've done a lot worse.
Hell, if I wanted I could host a few dozen websites on it in nginx or Apache, or attach and share some USB storage and call it a server. I'm not going to do that either, but I could.
You seem to be defining the category of hardware by the software running on it. That is not appropriate. Why not go whole hog and say "if it doesn't have Windows, it's not a PC"? Then we know what you're really saying.
A VM is not an emulation.
Hell, if you have Skype installed it's watching you even if you're not using it to make a call.
In many offices there is that passive-agressive document weenie who demands the newest version of Office on launch day. And then he dives 2000 pages into the documentation to find the features to put in his documents that he sends to everybody else who doesn't have the latest version so they can't open them. Usually it's an HR person, and that's where they hide the leave request form - which is innately so simple a document it should be a text message.
Photoshop also has a vast installed base of pirate users who think stealing a very expensive program is superior to using any sort of free one because if they charge a lot of money for it, it must be better.
Part of the purpose of Attachmate acquiring Novell out of bankruptcy was to prevent WordPerfect from being ported back to Linux and letting the legal community have their WordPerfect back. Wordperfect never worked well for long in Windows before Windows was updated to prevent it. In Linux it would be a sustainable package. Attachmate is a puppet.
Ironically the ability to run WordPerfect was originally a huge selling point for Windows.
So Linux has been clearly highly hardcore geeky stuff in it's first years.
Yes, it was. Somehow we managed to struggle through. Along the way we learned many useful things.
The folk who care to be this careful are interesting enough for special attention. You know that, don't you?
Was he calling for some random third party then? Why didn't he name it and give it hope? He didn't because he's a Republican and wants to blame the NSA on President Obama and the Democrats as if a shift in executive party would fix this problem.
As for myself I'm of the "a pox on both their houses" party so your assessment is invalid. I'd be an anarchist if they could get their shit together but of course, being anarchists, they can't.
A change of Presidential party or Congressional control isn't going to fix this. The problem is far deeper than that.
I can bring myself to barely tolerate partisan politics for up to six months before a general election and one week after in concession to the necessary political process. That's it: six months every two years is all these mouthbreathers get. Other than that I'm going to be a nuisance about it. These people need to give it a rest. We cannot keep fighting about who's pretending they're in charge every single day of every year. We've got real shit to do.
My god you partisan idiots don't give up when silly season is over. It's like a special form of retardation to drag your partisan politics into every realm of life even out of season, without reason or cause - to make every news event your rallying cry. I wish you all would suffocate on your own bile.
The NSA was founded in 1949 by Harry Truman. It has thrived across so many different administrations and congresses of every stripe that it must be assumed to be immune to partisan politics.
And this isn't the only shadow agency in the US government. At my last count there were seventeen.
This is not a partisan thing.
These agencies operate of the foundation of "don't get caught". There will be nothing provable that will be admitted before any court anywhere. Likely some poor judge will try until he has a drunk driving incident, or is revealed as a closet pedophile (much to his own surprise) and is recused.
If I hadn't already posted, I would mod this funny.
You think it matters if your email is encrypted? The odds are good your mail reader CC's every email to the NSA after/before it's decrypted/encrypted.
Actually it's kind of incredible to me that the NSA's astroturf brigade is not as active and effective as Microsoft's. Maybe reputation management isn't their thing.
I am not. For a genocidal bioweapon to kill everybody with a specific gene marker that identifies a "target" it has to propagate through all mankind to hit all the isolated pockets of populations. The non-targeted people must be afflicted carriers who are mostly not killed. Otherwise it is simply an area weapon and even then might get out of hand.
It is sadly possible to design a DNA-targeted bioweapon. But to kill one human a virus or bacterium must multiply billions of times. Every reproduction is a potential error and every afflicted human will have a few - and you are correct that most mutations die. Billions of reproductions times billions of humans equate to billions of mutations though, and some few survive to wreak untold horror on the untargeted populations.
So it is that DNA targeted bioweapons sadly can be created but happily cannot be controlled. The first one will kill us all. Eventually somebody will be both skilled enough to do it and dumb enough to try it. Hopefully not soon.
Want to think a scary thought: a DNA-targeted bioweapon can be developed to target Down's syndrome, susceptibility to arthritis or heart disease, excessive risk taking, alcoholic/drug dependency tendencies or intelligence - or the lack thereof among other things. Maybe we should be afraid of health insurance companies.
I'm afraid that without the unpleasant consequences of martyrdom the standard social inertia cannot be overcome. It is the brutality of the oppression of the martyr that incites the rebellion, not his call for social change. The martyr accepts that he's going to be oppressed and acts for change anyway. That is what makes martyrs special. We had this need long before the time of Jesus and I don't expect an end to it in my lifetime.
The law is wrong and needs to be changed. He did, in fact, break the law: he divulged state secrets entrusted to him under threat of severe penalty for disclosure. I believe he did the right thing, but it was still illegal. If you have strong moral convictions but not the will to expose yourself to punishment you should avoid this situation because the internal conflict between your will to do the right thing and your fear of punishment can drive you insane. In that case you are not martyr material.
Since this is the NSA he had to know they would find him - that's what they do. By outing himself he probably avoids some extrajudicial retirement. Nobody from here out is going to believe he locked himself in a duffel bag, or died of autoerotic asphyxiation, or overdosed on bath salts.
I'm not saying that he should be punished - only that he will. They'll get Julian Assange one day too, even if his punishment is to be hunted to the end of his days. By dragging it out so long that the defiant act becomes disassociated in the public mind with the tyrannical punishment the authorities may be doing themselves a favor and blunting the rebellion. But eventually Caesar gets what is Caesars until Caesar is no more.
Anyway, what do you care? By your own account you fled. You should probably fix or prevent the problems in your new home wherever it is. All politics are local. If things get too tough in your new home you can always find another one more to your liking. People who flee tyranny also do not martyrs make. Fleeing tyranny is for most the wisest course until there is no place to turn. If you've go the wit and will to make it anywhere and lack anchors like family and tradition, going to where the field is ripe with berries and the wolves are more like dachsunds is just smart. Win wherever you are! If things are going like you think our generation's version of the underground railroad is going to need another end. By building up resources to shelter refugees you can be that end. That seems to be a role you're more suited to than taking up arms against the tyrant.
Certainly if you intend to act, this is not the place to say so.
The "refreshments" must be amazing.
They do it to maintain their monopoly. That is more than enough reason for me.
What with the rise of mobile they seem to have lost the ability to prevent progress. And look at all the wonderful new things we get when that power is lost. Isn't it amazing ?
Clearly you haven't tried "Excel for supercomputers.
The National Security Agency is spying on the nation? Where is Ric Romero when you need him?