> Meanwhile all your applications work, your drivers work no matter how many patches and services packs get released...
The drivers work as in win7? that is, plug the oki old laser, win says no driver, you ignore it and go to the producer website, navigate around till you find the proper driver, download it, and then google for how to install printer drivers on win7 since the older method doesn't work?
But please go on repeating the linux on desktop mantra to winslaves, they helped build the MS monopoly so they deserve to suffer:D
If alternatives to the wintel monopoly weren't so strong you'd see that card played much more often. And you will see it if you let MS or Apple or Google own too much of your computing infrastructure.
If apple censored every other political app, one could argue that apple does just like a random webhost who doesn't allow pornography. If apple lets some political apps through and this one gets blocked, it's like a society where female must wear a burqa and males are exempted.
> The first thing I learnt in admin/support is that if you specialise, you limit your options, for both solutions & future employment. It's not so black and white. If you don't specialise, you're equivalent to a younger guy who asks for less and seems more ready for the next "tech flavor of the month" which managers like soo much, it lets them spit the right techno-babble at meetings.
"Fan" is wrong. "Hostage" is the right word. Enjoy re-learning basic stuff just to get your win8 systems going, and pray for good plugins to read newer formats on winxp vista workstations with office. And ask for more money than the unix admins. They keep typing ls -l as they did on the VAX of the university when they were 30 years younger, those lazy hippies.
There are 2 categories of operating systems. First kind: the pc is the territory, the objective is ownership of the territory, the OS is one of the weapons. This category sees windows, recent OSX, recent ubuntu, oracle linux, android... Free software is an asset there. They are easy to spot because the value uniqueness of user interface, which translates to change for the sake of change, NIH syndrome. Other kind: the OS is a mean to have programs running, projects who focus on compatibility between platforms and generations of hardware. Debian, BSDs, most minor OSes. Free software is a philosophy there.
The first kind is favoured by the hardware makers, the second kind makes your current pc basically immortal.
I dunno, as an indie dev you can change the warranty in the license of your software, stating that "This software will occasionally test your hardware by deadlocking it, perform random functions regardless the user inputs, and make hardware resources available to the cloud, specifically to the latest botnet makers."
>What an informed or rational decision can a consumer make with a GM label in foods?
The rational decision is to eat the food we have been eating for millennia and leave the experiment to the progressive guys like you who think corporations are acting in people's best interest.
>What's next? Putting "GAY" and "JEW" labels in people so we can make an informed decisions who we relate to?
oh, do you "relate to" bananas and pizza? funny guy.
Given the consequences of eating bad food, it's like knowing whether the piano teacher of your daughter is a sex offender with tastes for younger people.
I see no reason why the control system of the mars rover should be linked to anything else than the rover itself.
On the other hand, if something go badly wrong, an insulated system cannot put the blame on damn russian/chinese/iranian hackers, saving ass and injecting FUD for further "regulating" the net, in one swift move.
Therefore I am not amazed anymore to hear the rover is potentially at risk. What the risk is in practice, I dunno: let's face it, the NASA probably uses Logo to drive the rover around and nobody among black hats remembers about Logo:D
When it had to beat netscape, Explorer was a good browser. If it ever manages to become relevant again, it will try to make it difficult for everybody else again. All corporations behave the same way, not all have the levers MS can pull, but that's a technicality.
In fact the closest I can think to bedrock is "rootless gobolinux" on a stable distro, bedrock is different enough. Possibly GP was ironic, not trolling. The poor sap deplores multiple distros and prefers to submit his PC experience to what UI designers at MS, Apple (and why not, Canonical) decide it's best for the user^H^H^H^H trapping of users in their own differentiated user interface. Personally I'd rather switch distros every day of the week.
That is a superficial problem. The deep problem is that the mozilla foundation gets money mainly from google, so google owns a racehorse and feeds another one too. Google chrome starts getting marketshare and mozilla starts fiddling with the extensions system instead of reinforcing THE ONLY THING STANDING UP AGAINST EVERYBODY ELSE... coincidence?
Math is not used to its fullest extent. Nor ALL OTHER FRIGGIN' SUBJECTS ARE, except sexual education.
Anyway, at least, math is one of the few neutral subjects where it's not the professors' bias who decides what is good or bad.
Political science is the selection of propaganda items that have grown popular because it somehow serves the interests of the powerful people of the moment. No wonder they prefer that instead of math.
It doesn't matter how much the tax changes for the psychologically 'strange' people who accumulate money, it matters what it change for all others.
And there are relatively few people who just accumulate money without altering lifestyle. All others when they get money, switch from a circle to another circle who spends more. Money is never enough, the circles of the very powerful can take today's megalottery winner and return it a beggar in 5 years.
Having said that, in my personal model of reality, money is mainly a mean of control, its effectiveness depends on its scarcity, so it is not important how much money a few people accumulate as long as, on average, most people don't have enough of it. Consider everybody as a prisoner and the rich persons as the kapos who simply got a larger bowl of soup in return for keeping the others in line. That explains perfectly the difference between naive rich people and pro rich people. But ok, just my model. Observe for yourself.
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In fact you are dumpster stuffing. Thank you for reminding people about the impact of planned obsolescence.
> Meanwhile all your applications work, your drivers work no matter how many patches and services packs get released...
The drivers work as in win7? that is, plug the oki old laser, win says no driver, you ignore it and go to the producer website, navigate around till you find the proper driver, download it, and then google for how to install printer drivers on win7 since the older method doesn't work?
But please go on repeating the linux on desktop mantra to winslaves, they helped build the MS monopoly so they deserve to suffer :D
That's easy when you sell a black box.
If alternatives to the wintel monopoly weren't so strong you'd see that card played much more often. And you will see it if you let MS or Apple or Google own too much of your computing infrastructure.
If apple censored every other political app, one could argue that apple does just like a random webhost who doesn't allow pornography. If apple lets some political apps through and this one gets blocked, it's like a society where female must wear a burqa and males are exempted.
I am not surprised either, anyway.
> The first thing I learnt in admin/support is that if you specialise, you limit your options, for both solutions & future employment.
It's not so black and white. If you don't specialise, you're equivalent to a younger guy who asks for less and seems more ready for the next "tech flavor of the month" which managers like soo much, it lets them spit the right techno-babble at meetings.
"Fan" is wrong. "Hostage" is the right word. Enjoy re-learning basic stuff just to get your win8 systems going, and pray for good plugins to read newer formats on winxp vista workstations with office. And ask for more money than the unix admins. They keep typing ls -l as they did on the VAX of the university when they were 30 years younger, those lazy hippies.
There are 2 categories of operating systems. First kind: the pc is the territory, the objective is ownership of the territory, the OS is one of the weapons. This category sees windows, recent OSX, recent ubuntu, oracle linux, android... Free software is an asset there. They are easy to spot because the value uniqueness of user interface, which translates to change for the sake of change, NIH syndrome. Other kind: the OS is a mean to have programs running, projects who focus on compatibility between platforms and generations of hardware. Debian, BSDs, most minor OSes.
Free software is a philosophy there.
The first kind is favoured by the hardware makers, the second kind makes your current pc basically immortal.
A thread about sex on slashdot is like a thread about cannibalism in a vegan forum.
> Had I mod points, I'd mod this informative just to see people's reaction.
They stare at you while you shout "Soylent green is PEOPLE!"
So much for certification.
I dunno, as an indie dev you can change the warranty in the license of your software, stating that
"This software will occasionally test your hardware by deadlocking it, perform random functions regardless the user inputs, and make hardware resources available to the cloud, specifically to the latest botnet makers."
So it always performs as planned :)
>What an informed or rational decision can a consumer make with a GM label in foods?
The rational decision is to eat the food we have been eating for millennia and leave the experiment to the progressive guys like you who think corporations are acting in people's best interest.
>What's next? Putting "GAY" and "JEW" labels in people so we can make an informed decisions who we relate to?
oh, do you "relate to" bananas and pizza? funny guy.
Given the consequences of eating bad food, it's like knowing whether the piano teacher of your daughter is a sex offender with tastes for younger people.
You mean you are comfortable about an AV solution, and a popular one, meddling with a write protected hosts file and telling you nothing about it?
One should AT LEAST have learned about this behavior from Windows or Defender changelogs.
I see how windows gives you job security, though. You can't be held responsible for the inner working of a black box.
Yo dawg,
I herd you like to exploit flaws,
so I put a flaw in your flaws exploit kit,
so you can exploit flaws while your devkit's flaw is exploited.
> Wow, you're about as dumb as the article writer.
we'll see about that shortly
>The DSN is not connected to the Internet or any public network.
So what? where in my comment I imply it is?
I simplify my comment:
A. it is dumb to put the control system on the internet
B. But if they do it, they have a scapegoat.
Got it now, genius?
I see no reason why the control system of the mars rover should be linked to anything else than the rover itself.
On the other hand, if something go badly wrong, an insulated system cannot put the blame on damn russian/chinese/iranian hackers, saving ass and injecting FUD for further "regulating" the net, in one swift move.
Therefore I am not amazed anymore to hear the rover is potentially at risk. What the risk is in practice, I dunno: let's face it, the NASA probably uses Logo to drive the rover around and nobody among black hats remembers about Logo :D
Well, if they all understood it, that would explain the Windows 8 interface.
When it had to beat netscape, Explorer was a good browser. If it ever manages to become relevant again, it will try to make it difficult for everybody else again. All corporations behave the same way, not all have the levers MS can pull, but that's a technicality.
In fact the closest I can think to bedrock is "rootless gobolinux" on a stable distro, bedrock is different enough. Possibly GP was ironic, not trolling. The poor sap deplores multiple distros and prefers to submit his PC experience to what UI designers at MS, Apple (and why not, Canonical) decide it's best for the user^H^H^H^H trapping of users in their own differentiated user interface. Personally I'd rather switch distros every day of the week.
That is a superficial problem.
The deep problem is that the mozilla foundation gets money mainly from google, so google owns a racehorse and feeds another one too.
Google chrome starts getting marketshare and mozilla starts fiddling with the extensions system instead of reinforcing THE ONLY THING STANDING UP AGAINST EVERYBODY ELSE... coincidence?
Actually, he throws chairs against the wall until inspiration comes, but this time he had too few chairs.
I thought they called it "the cloud" because it's all fuzzy inside...
Welcome to the cloud! Where your data is our data.
As "the cloud" is getting more traction, expect worse things to happen. We are still in the acceptance phase.
> you are aware -why- there was such a gap between xp and vista, right?
You should measure gaps between final releases, not a release and a beta.
Math is not used to its fullest extent. Nor ALL OTHER FRIGGIN' SUBJECTS ARE, except sexual education.
Anyway, at least, math is one of the few neutral subjects where it's not the professors' bias who decides what is good or bad.
Political science is the selection of propaganda items that have grown popular because it somehow serves the interests of the powerful people of the moment. No wonder they prefer that instead of math.
(hey I can troll too, can't I)
It doesn't matter how much the tax changes for the psychologically 'strange' people who accumulate money, it matters what it change for all others.
And there are relatively few people who just accumulate money without altering lifestyle. All others when they get money, switch from a circle to another circle who spends more. Money is never enough, the circles of the very powerful can take today's megalottery winner and return it a beggar in 5 years.
Having said that, in my personal model of reality, money is mainly a mean of control, its effectiveness depends on its scarcity, so it is not important how much money a few people accumulate as long as, on average, most people don't have enough of it. Consider everybody as a prisoner and the rich persons as the kapos who simply got a larger bowl of soup in return for keeping the others in line. That explains perfectly the difference between naive rich people and pro rich people. But ok, just my model. Observe for yourself.