If you like Ubuntu and don't want to "update your distro every 6-12 months" then choose an LTS release. Those are supported for 5 years. There may be other reasons not to like Ubuntu but the update cycle is not one of them.
Err, yes it still is because the LTS releases updates are for security patches. Over time you can't get updates to packages that you would want without going through other means. An example of a package I would want to see updates constantly but cannot expect to see from Ubuntu LTS is for Blender 3D. I'm sure I could find others if I still bothered to use Ubuntu.
I'm not sure what the OP means when he says "mechanical equipment it controls" but assume he means the PC and it's peripherals.
1st off. It depends on what you want from your Linux flavor OS. Seems to me you want to get away from the Windows shenanigans but coming from a Windows ecosystem myself. I couldn't stand the Ubuntu/Fedora update your distro every 6-12 months. Windows just updates until it's time to switch to a new version some years later (until Windows 10 that is to say).
I'm probably going against the tide here but having gone the rolling release way, I don't see myself going back for personal needs to a major distro like Ubuntu.
Manjaro is an easy to use rolling release distro to start with and once you feel comfortable, you can move to Arch Linux if you feel you need to be more of a poweruser.
I don't mean to be insensitive here but when I see something in this article saying “Usually, they outsource the low-paying jobs” I'm thinking these people were fine with it since it didn't touch them. I have seen places where you can tell these high-level employees are fine with outsourcing and even thought it was normal that their company was saving money. They would have done something to defend the low paying jobs if they had understood it would eventually come for them. The lack of solidarity between tech workers is appalling I find. I'm not suggesting it would fix the underlying problem occurring here but it makes it hard for me to have sympathy for them.
On the other side of this issue, what about the students? Are they still going to go to this school knowing it's telling them their future job won't be there because an H1B has it or will they stop registering for these courses to send a message to the school's administration? I'll bet they will still attend and give their borrowed money to get a diploma that won't mean anything to an employer who can get people on the cheap.
Why would I pay 20 bucks to see a movie when I can download it for free?
Because it's unethical? It's not made to be given out for free. At least not at the moment of release.
If you want to watch it for free and legally. You can wait till the movie ends up on TV in a few years.
Can't wait that long you say?
You can wait till it's available on some form of video on demand for a much cheaper price than going to the theater.
Sure you can ignore the morals and just download the god awful camera quality but it's not worth it IMO.
True but it hasn't affected enough people to change things yet. Look at the bailouts that occurred. The 1st vote attempt didn't pass because a massive amount of people called their elected officials screaming to them to vote against it. They had to vote a second time to pass it making arguments to ignore the voter's wishes.
It's sad to say but too many still have a lot to loose at this point.
Here's the problem . . . . these CEOs who are so in love with A.I./ Robotics are slowly putting themselves out of business.
Once you've eliminated all the workers, and nobody has a job any more (no job = no money), who exactly is going to buy your company's products? Have you considered what happens when 90% of your customers no longer have any money?
No, CEOs have not considered and probably won't see it until it hits them hard.
Look at it this way. The first companies to automate will see their profit margins increase because the remaining sectors continue to employ people where most of the profits are coming from since the workers at that company probably don't purchase much of the products they sell. Or the small amount they purchase is offset by the cost savings. So it will look positive on paper for these companies while many end up on the unemployment line. It will send a signal to shareholders and CEOs that this is a good thing pushing to expand this practice. As it expands into others areas replacing jobs faster than new (human) jobs can be created you'll see the unemployment numbers shoot up and then the profits start going down. It will probably go unexplained at first as the robotic replacement continues as a cost saving measure before someone making the correlation that all these lost jobs have destroyed the consumer's ability to buy anything is heard in the media and governments. I say heard because we are discussing it now as we will for years to come to come and won't be heard or simply waved off as unfounded worries.
And if you think Universal Basic Income is the answer, where do think that money is going to come from? From the businesses and the wealthy? The same people who do everything they can to hide their money and avoid paying taxes? Good luck with that.
I don't believe a basic income will be the solution and don't believe anyone currently has the answer but I do believe that ultimately all this will be a good thing as it will cause a demand by all to rethink how everything is done but not before we hit a 20s style depression if not worse.
In the short term, you will be seeing people end up in massive debt as the problem gets ignored until we hit a point where too many are on the streets and probably protesting at best, looting and rioting at worst. Then when it can no longer be ignored that's when how the economy works will have to be reconsidered/reformed and things for the people can start improving again.
The amount of "pollution" cause by viewing a PDF is negligible. It is orders of magnitude less than the environmental cost of printing the same document on paper.
If you don't know, then you're an idiot.
Excuse me but I don't recall calling anyone names. Keep your insults to yourself buddy.
As I said before, it's not just about the electric consumption. It's about how some places using coal to create the electricity also destroy the local environment so now you not only pollute the skies but destroy the forests too so you loose your trees as well.
The only thing that is pointless here is the unending desire to kill trees for no valid reason.
You have no idea how many times I watch office workers print something only to scan it back to a digital format again.
And yet we see endless people who print out from those same digital copies.
As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal which pollutes the atmosphere and the mining of coal destroys the forest to a point those same trees cannot grow back because the soil is contaminated with the coal (looking at you North Carolina). So what's worse?
It's not from a want to use my digital wallet. In all aspects, it's far superior to the chip and pin system that the credit card companies want us to use. Those things are terrible and the deployment in the US is atrocious. Whenever I can pay with my phone, I do. It's so easy, much faster, and more secure than anything the credit card companies are offering.
I'm sorry but how is Apple Pay more secure? I haven't used it but from what I am reading, you upload your credit card info to your iPhone and then wave it near an NFC device to pay. That may sound faster but not more secure unless you need to enter your iPhone's PIN number before the transaction can occur but that wouldn't make it that much faster than punching a pin number. Credit cards also have NFC capability as well but limited to a certain amount and can be disabled to limit to using a PIN number which I find far more secure.
Windows PCs get updates pushed out by Microsoft. In the case of Android, shouldn't Google be in charge of pushing the updates?
I think even Windows Phone updates are controlled by Microsoft even through OEM phones (if they had any left I mean).
You know, I think looking at this that it's a little easy to say it was discovered now.
Who's to say it wasn't discovered by people playing back when it was published?
Let's face it, it's not like records of the period are detailed. I can imagine folks posting about it on their local BBS which in turn would get lost over time.
... it was long overdue. I'm not a fan of the Liberals but this is a good 1st step in the right direction.
Thank you must also be given to the voters who finally were able to rally and kick out the Conservatives.
Too often we do not feel our votes make a difference but it did make one here.
Now the only question to us is, how far will these changes go? We'll see over time.
I would think if they can get to a point where it works properly, has a certain ease to be installed on PCs and software can be ported to it with a reasonable amount of work that it would then come down to the communities to supply the rest. Drivers mainly for hardware that it doesn't support. This is how Linux got started where people made drivers to make it work on their systems. The problem now is that Linux has most of the attention of developers working in the open source world so the Hurd's challenge would need to be able to get people's interest once they achieve that milestone.
I'm sure there are plenty of other things that I'm missing as I am not following the Hurd much but I do believe that getting to a point where it works well enought that drivers are a bigger issue that getting people to create them would be the key to moving fast on everything else. More people able to use means more people able to contribute back code.
I particularly enjoy reading from the Communities Dominate Brands to see where the cell phone market is going. He's been pretty much spot on in regards to Nokia and predicted that Microsoft would do cut to the Lumia brand which is part of today's headlines on/.
I always think of the man pages on the Linux command prompt when thinking of the worst documents out there.
I really think whoever writes into these has no idea how to make them human readable.
I couldn't be bothered most of the time and ended up googling for what I needed to do instead.
I guess Quebec bashing from the rest of the country is to be expected in news like those.
Well like it or now, Quebec bring a shit lot of stuff and specialization for Canada that isn't to look down (aerospace, hydroelectricity and videogame to name a few). Furthermore, I don't know in what world you live but I don't see how speaking a different language is in any way related in actual capabilities or skill.
Humm, let's see. Hydro Quebec gets 80% of it's current revenu from Quebecers and constantly demanding increases of 4 to 5% per years while making record profits. So while it makes a lot of money, it's not doing it from what it sells to the US because it has to sell there at a lost and subsidize to companies who threaten to leave the province.
Aerospace? Bombardier is cuttings a lot of jobs of late because of poor decisions and I got a friend working there who is currently quite nervous of loosing his post.
Videogames? You mean that sector being subsidized by the provincial government who decided to cut the amount to smaller studios who in some cases are looking to move to Ontario because the tax credits there are better? The same Ontario where most of the big studios who have offices in Montreal also have them in Toronto? Without those tax credits I promise you the video game industry would leave in a heart beat because it's not hard to move that sort of company around.
And this is why Quebec is in such an amazing financial state.
And for those who don't know much about Quebec, I am being sarcastic. Quebec needs to stop putting itself into deficit year after year before it gets to a point where we get imposed stuff like they are doing in Greece because I promise you, there isn't a politician alive here with the backbone to refuse to pay the creditors and put it's population 1st.
Having heard too many stories of gambling addicts loosing everything in Casinos and even seeing it happen to my own father. I might have gotten behind the idea of blocking gambling websites if they blocked all of them period. But since Loto-Quebec will be making it so that people go to their online site instead it's not a move to help reduce the risk. Just making sure our own provincially hungry fox guards the hen house. People will still loose their shirts in the end and we'll still have these establishment who end up putting people in poverty which I find is only a short term boost to the provincial revenue for a long term lost.
I'm not even certain it's a good thing for Loto-Quebec since it would open the door to other provinces and countries blocking access to Quebec gambling sites. Who knows where this could end up? Once you start blocking one group of sites, you could start blocking other groups too.
In the end, I don't think it will be seen as legal. Someone will surely challenge this all the way to the supreme court.
Wasn't there a bunch of articles lately explaining how much of these app developers aren't making any return because of how difficult it is to be seen on the store or how most users don't really use much of these apps once the hype passes.
Why wouldn't it be different? Most of the open source projects where there was a major disagreement ended up with a fork.
Just think of the Open Office when Oracle was just letting it die. People just went and did Libre Office when they were ignored.
There's no reason to think that the folks over at Debian couldn't just create their own fork if they felt they were being ignored.
If that were to happen, it would then all come down to how many Debian users move over vs who stays.
That being said, I'd rather they all come to a consensus that everyone could be happy with.
Let's say a US show like Sleepy Hollow from Fox is playing for instance.
I'm only thinking of that one as it's totally being bombarded on me as part of the fall lineup at the moment and know which station in the US plays it.
Now, Global TV in Canada has the rights to play that same show in Canada and is doing so at the same time.
Well what would be the point of paying for ads on Global if everyone is watching the US feed via cable and satellite?
So the solution is to have the Global TV feed play which is playing simultaneously to FOX replace the feed from the FOX channel and insure we see those commercials targeting Canadians. At least that's what I was noticing when I had cable. I believe there is talk about changing that.
I think he means that Over the air (OTA) broadcast is a pure uncompressed signal of HDTV 1080i quality. The cable company has to compress the signal to get so many channels to get to the subscriber. Some feel there is a loss in quality vs OTA but depending on who you talk to it's not something people will notice.
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If you like Ubuntu and don't want to "update your distro every 6-12 months" then choose an LTS release. Those are supported for 5 years. There may be other reasons not to like Ubuntu but the update cycle is not one of them.
Err, yes it still is because the LTS releases updates are for security patches. Over time you can't get updates to packages that you would want without going through other means. An example of a package I would want to see updates constantly but cannot expect to see from Ubuntu LTS is for Blender 3D. I'm sure I could find others if I still bothered to use Ubuntu.
I'm not sure what the OP means when he says "mechanical equipment it controls" but assume he means the PC and it's peripherals.
1st off. It depends on what you want from your Linux flavor OS. Seems to me you want to get away from the Windows shenanigans but coming from a Windows ecosystem myself. I couldn't stand the Ubuntu/Fedora update your distro every 6-12 months. Windows just updates until it's time to switch to a new version some years later (until Windows 10 that is to say).
I'm probably going against the tide here but having gone the rolling release way, I don't see myself going back for personal needs to a major distro like Ubuntu. Manjaro is an easy to use rolling release distro to start with and once you feel comfortable, you can move to Arch Linux if you feel you need to be more of a poweruser.
I don't mean to be insensitive here but when I see something in this article saying “Usually, they outsource the low-paying jobs” I'm thinking these people were fine with it since it didn't touch them. I have seen places where you can tell these high-level employees are fine with outsourcing and even thought it was normal that their company was saving money. They would have done something to defend the low paying jobs if they had understood it would eventually come for them. The lack of solidarity between tech workers is appalling I find. I'm not suggesting it would fix the underlying problem occurring here but it makes it hard for me to have sympathy for them.
On the other side of this issue, what about the students? Are they still going to go to this school knowing it's telling them their future job won't be there because an H1B has it or will they stop registering for these courses to send a message to the school's administration? I'll bet they will still attend and give their borrowed money to get a diploma that won't mean anything to an employer who can get people on the cheap.
Why would I pay 20 bucks to see a movie when I can download it for free?
Because it's unethical? It's not made to be given out for free. At least not at the moment of release.
If you want to watch it for free and legally. You can wait till the movie ends up on TV in a few years.
Can't wait that long you say?
You can wait till it's available on some form of video on demand for a much cheaper price than going to the theater.
Sure you can ignore the morals and just download the god awful camera quality but it's not worth it IMO.
True but it hasn't affected enough people to change things yet. Look at the bailouts that occurred. The 1st vote attempt didn't pass because a massive amount of people called their elected officials screaming to them to vote against it. They had to vote a second time to pass it making arguments to ignore the voter's wishes.
It's sad to say but too many still have a lot to loose at this point.
Here's the problem . . . . these CEOs who are so in love with A.I./ Robotics are slowly putting themselves out of business.
Once you've eliminated all the workers, and nobody has a job any more (no job = no money), who exactly is going to buy your company's products? Have you considered what happens when 90% of your customers no longer have any money?
No, CEOs have not considered and probably won't see it until it hits them hard.
Look at it this way. The first companies to automate will see their profit margins increase because the remaining sectors continue to employ people where most of the profits are coming from since the workers at that company probably don't purchase much of the products they sell. Or the small amount they purchase is offset by the cost savings. So it will look positive on paper for these companies while many end up on the unemployment line. It will send a signal to shareholders and CEOs that this is a good thing pushing to expand this practice. As it expands into others areas replacing jobs faster than new (human) jobs can be created you'll see the unemployment numbers shoot up and then the profits start going down. It will probably go unexplained at first as the robotic replacement continues as a cost saving measure before someone making the correlation that all these lost jobs have destroyed the consumer's ability to buy anything is heard in the media and governments. I say heard because we are discussing it now as we will for years to come to come and won't be heard or simply waved off as unfounded worries.
And if you think Universal Basic Income is the answer, where do think that money is going to come from? From the businesses and the wealthy? The same people who do everything they can to hide their money and avoid paying taxes? Good luck with that.
I don't believe a basic income will be the solution and don't believe anyone currently has the answer but I do believe that ultimately all this will be a good thing as it will cause a demand by all to rethink how everything is done but not before we hit a 20s style depression if not worse.
In the short term, you will be seeing people end up in massive debt as the problem gets ignored until we hit a point where too many are on the streets and probably protesting at best, looting and rioting at worst. Then when it can no longer be ignored that's when how the economy works will have to be reconsidered/reformed and things for the people can start improving again.
FTFY, you black bastard.
Very mature dude. I know it's /. but I didn't realize the site still attracted young people in diapers.
The amount of "pollution" cause by viewing a PDF is negligible. It is orders of magnitude less than the environmental cost of printing the same document on paper.
If you don't know, then you're an idiot.
Excuse me but I don't recall calling anyone names. Keep your insults to yourself buddy.
As I said before, it's not just about the electric consumption. It's about how some places using coal to create the electricity also destroy the local environment so now you not only pollute the skies but destroy the forests too so you loose your trees as well.
So ya, I do know.
The only thing that is pointless here is the unending desire to kill trees for no valid reason.
You have no idea how many times I watch office workers print something only to scan it back to a digital format again.
And yet we see endless people who print out from those same digital copies.
As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal which pollutes the atmosphere and the mining of coal destroys the forest to a point those same trees cannot grow back because the soil is contaminated with the coal (looking at you North Carolina). So what's worse?
It's not from a want to use my digital wallet. In all aspects, it's far superior to the chip and pin system that the credit card companies want us to use. Those things are terrible and the deployment in the US is atrocious. Whenever I can pay with my phone, I do. It's so easy, much faster, and more secure than anything the credit card companies are offering.
I'm sorry but how is Apple Pay more secure? I haven't used it but from what I am reading, you upload your credit card info to your iPhone and then wave it near an NFC device to pay. That may sound faster but not more secure unless you need to enter your iPhone's PIN number before the transaction can occur but that wouldn't make it that much faster than punching a pin number. Credit cards also have NFC capability as well but limited to a certain amount and can be disabled to limit to using a PIN number which I find far more secure.
Windows PCs get updates pushed out by Microsoft. In the case of Android, shouldn't Google be in charge of pushing the updates?
I think even Windows Phone updates are controlled by Microsoft even through OEM phones (if they had any left I mean).
Can someone explain this to me?
You know, I think looking at this that it's a little easy to say it was discovered now.
Who's to say it wasn't discovered by people playing back when it was published?
Let's face it, it's not like records of the period are detailed. I can imagine folks posting about it on their local BBS which in turn would get lost over time.
... it was long overdue. I'm not a fan of the Liberals but this is a good 1st step in the right direction.
Thank you must also be given to the voters who finally were able to rally and kick out the Conservatives.
Too often we do not feel our votes make a difference but it did make one here.
Now the only question to us is, how far will these changes go? We'll see over time.
I would think if they can get to a point where it works properly, has a certain ease to be installed on PCs and software can be ported to it with a reasonable amount of work that it would then come down to the communities to supply the rest. Drivers mainly for hardware that it doesn't support. This is how Linux got started where people made drivers to make it work on their systems. The problem now is that Linux has most of the attention of developers working in the open source world so the Hurd's challenge would need to be able to get people's interest once they achieve that milestone.
I'm sure there are plenty of other things that I'm missing as I am not following the Hurd much but I do believe that getting to a point where it works well enought that drivers are a bigger issue that getting people to create them would be the key to moving fast on everything else. More people able to use means more people able to contribute back code.
I particularly enjoy reading from the Communities Dominate Brands to see where the cell phone market is going. /.
He's been pretty much spot on in regards to Nokia and predicted that Microsoft would do cut to the Lumia brand which is part of today's headlines on
I always think of the man pages on the Linux command prompt when thinking of the worst documents out there.
I really think whoever writes into these has no idea how to make them human readable.
I couldn't be bothered most of the time and ended up googling for what I needed to do instead.
Wait! You mean nerds don't like Star Trek?
I guess Quebec bashing from the rest of the country is to be expected in news like those.
Well like it or now, Quebec bring a shit lot of stuff and specialization for Canada that isn't to look down (aerospace, hydroelectricity and videogame to name a few). Furthermore, I don't know in what world you live but I don't see how speaking a different language is in any way related in actual capabilities or skill.
Humm, let's see. Hydro Quebec gets 80% of it's current revenu from Quebecers and constantly demanding increases of 4 to 5% per years while making record profits. So while it makes a lot of money, it's not doing it from what it sells to the US because it has to sell there at a lost and subsidize to companies who threaten to leave the province.
Aerospace? Bombardier is cuttings a lot of jobs of late because of poor decisions and I got a friend working there who is currently quite nervous of loosing his post.
Videogames? You mean that sector being subsidized by the provincial government who decided to cut the amount to smaller studios who in some cases are looking to move to Ontario because the tax credits there are better? The same Ontario where most of the big studios who have offices in Montreal also have them in Toronto? Without those tax credits I promise you the video game industry would leave in a heart beat because it's not hard to move that sort of company around.
And this is why Quebec is in such an amazing financial state.
And for those who don't know much about Quebec, I am being sarcastic. Quebec needs to stop putting itself into deficit year after year before it gets to a point where we get imposed stuff like they are doing in Greece because I promise you, there isn't a politician alive here with the backbone to refuse to pay the creditors and put it's population 1st.
Disclaimer: I live here too.
Having heard too many stories of gambling addicts loosing everything in Casinos and even seeing it happen to my own father. I might have gotten behind the idea of blocking gambling websites if they blocked all of them period. But since Loto-Quebec will be making it so that people go to their online site instead it's not a move to help reduce the risk. Just making sure our own provincially hungry fox guards the hen house. People will still loose their shirts in the end and we'll still have these establishment who end up putting people in poverty which I find is only a short term boost to the provincial revenue for a long term lost.
I'm not even certain it's a good thing for Loto-Quebec since it would open the door to other provinces and countries blocking access to Quebec gambling sites. Who knows where this could end up? Once you start blocking one group of sites, you could start blocking other groups too.
In the end, I don't think it will be seen as legal. Someone will surely challenge this all the way to the supreme court.
Wasn't there a bunch of articles lately explaining how much of these app developers aren't making any return because of how difficult it is to be seen on the store or how most users don't really use much of these apps once the hype passes.
Why wouldn't it be different? Most of the open source projects where there was a major disagreement ended up with a fork.
Just think of the Open Office when Oracle was just letting it die. People just went and did Libre Office when they were ignored.
There's no reason to think that the folks over at Debian couldn't just create their own fork if they felt they were being ignored.
If that were to happen, it would then all come down to how many Debian users move over vs who stays.
That being said, I'd rather they all come to a consensus that everyone could be happy with.
It's the commercials.
Let's say a US show like Sleepy Hollow from Fox is playing for instance.
I'm only thinking of that one as it's totally being bombarded on me as part of the fall lineup at the moment and know which station in the US plays it.
Now, Global TV in Canada has the rights to play that same show in Canada and is doing so at the same time.
Well what would be the point of paying for ads on Global if everyone is watching the US feed via cable and satellite?
So the solution is to have the Global TV feed play which is playing simultaneously to FOX replace the feed from the FOX channel and insure we see those commercials targeting Canadians. At least that's what I was noticing when I had cable. I believe there is talk about changing that.
I think he means that Over the air (OTA) broadcast is a pure uncompressed signal of HDTV 1080i quality. The cable company has to compress the signal to get so many channels to get to the subscriber. Some feel there is a loss in quality vs OTA but depending on who you talk to it's not something people will notice.