A many kloc network client and the choice to either run it with root privileges or update it with a popup... In my universe the answer would be DROP ROOT PRIVILEGES OBVIOUSLY... or install an updater and run that one only as root.
web2py, a python project, autoupdates and I don't recall having seen anything about running as root on windows. If so, why google can't do that too...
If your only issue is preventing people from tying the android name to bad user experiences, why not simply defend the trademark and release the free stack under a different name? worked for apple, and worked for java, who didn't even bother changing name.
No problem for me. Maybe, those who wrote the code and see other guys get money from it, putting it into a proprietary license, and in the future possibly prevent improvements on the free code base using patents, maybe those have a problem and wish they used the gpl v.2 or later. But I'm too pessimist, for now let's hope the free code stays free and let other people do what they want with it.
Better to be strict, a badly written kernel module in an hypervisor is a security nightmare. Also oracle doesn't seem very idealistic about FOSS and even shows little lip service to it, so I think that simply waiting for them to fix stuff would not have worked so much.
Did the guy you were replying to imply linux repairs itself? He said it's easy to do something to linund ox because everything is treatable with some tools. I said it's also easy to get full featured and completely compatible versions on USB sticks SD cards live cds. I'll up the ante pointing out that the tools are multiplatform (in case you need to check out a powerpc config file) and that recovering a partition when you switched out enough hardware make windows barf out at boot. While linux tries it best to work with whatever it finds when it boots.
The other OSes can be installed on cd dvd and usb and booted from there when your hd goes clicky clicky. A 512 mb sd card can hold a linux os on which you can do work, an xp freshly installed system needs drivers for printing scanning 3d even unencrypted dvd.
You talk about the sum, me about the factors. Usability decreases with the removal, and increases if the replacement makes up for the loss. Did the ribbon make up for the loss? Notice that in your examples you ADDED stuff, not removed it. Command lines are windows in a GUI. Ditto for tabs.
And apple is not a good exampe as it gradually went back to more mainstream choices. Lisa was more different than the mac, the mac moved the close button "on the wrong side" like windows, and got a command line. The desktop metaphor - which incidentally proves that familiarity can be increased by changes - and the standard look of mac apps are a thing of the past.
Of course MS uses the same metrics or usability that everybody else does, so they know it. But they want to make their environment unique no matter the cost, so that switching to alternatives is cumbersome and/or competition has to catch up if they want to provide an UI familiar to windows users.
We could call it "ribbonisation", or, in linux land, "ubuntisation".
And like a car from the 70s, it's possibly more environmentally friendly to keep it if you run it sparingly instead of sending it to the dumpster and buying new cheap crap made by an underpaid drone, ultimately directed by a bunch of sociopaths in grey suits.
I don't get this: In the beginning browsers were judged by how they rendered... well, respond to broken sites made for other browsers. When chrome was the new kid on the block, suddenly browsers' performance matters to the millisecond. When FF catches up, performance doesn't matter.
Sure sure, I don't care for milliseconds too. And since FF depends on google and google has its own horse, I think it is doomed even if the code will live on. But at the moment I am quite content with ff+noscript+debian even on older hardware.
Except the killing did not happen, so you are condemning the ideal act of considering a god as your god, which is tautological. Following ideals to the extreme detriment of oneself is fought by the current system, so that doesn't surprise me.
But of course you're instead condemning those who would obey such an order should it come in the future. A pity that a christian could perfectly refuse to obey that order since it would be teaching twice the same lesson and a supreme being with alzheimer is not probably the real god, so...
If you think Mt5 clashes with Mt7, either it's a scam and the writers were so dumb - or so clever- to try and make you believe to illogical things, or it's not a scam and then you have to work out how fulfillment does not necessarily clash with "being static", especially when the receivers of teachings are evolving creatures.
Free to choose - somebody is still gonna slap his 40ish son as if he was 4 and dropping the icecream.
So, to be kind and politically correct towards windows - stockholm syndrome is real - we must ignore the fact that OSX has indeed less volume and variety of malware? Does not make sense. OSX has less malware than windows and is the more refined desktop OS out there. Windows has more games and possibly vertical apps, and I prefer debian to both. See? No problems.
> I have been a slashdot slacker lately. Wow. Some things never change. I guess, to fit in, I have to hate all things DRM and all things Microsoft.
Or you can repeat past gen's mistakes with microsoft.
But people wise up, and will instead repeat past gen's mistakes with apple or google.
As for whatever TFA says, data exchange is a problem already solved by "standards", that worked already in the time when tablets were made of clay. MS is going the "new standard controlled by us as soon as we have enough share" route, have a fun ride.
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A many kloc network client and the choice to either run it with root privileges or update it with a popup...
In my universe the answer would be DROP ROOT PRIVILEGES OBVIOUSLY... or install an updater and run that one only as root.
web2py, a python project, autoupdates and I don't recall having seen anything about running as root on windows. If so, why google can't do that too...
In that case, since we were not discussing configurability but hard limits, the poster was OT.
A guy takes a BSD app, adds two lines of code in two minutes and patents the possibly trivial stuff that it makes.
Now nobody can add similar functionality to that BSD app.
If the app had been GPLed I'd have to write it from scratch and having it compete with the GPL version in the market.
Now who's getting severe limitations again? the guy who deserve them.
The GPL is free, it's just a bit selective about whom it gives freedom to.
In this post the "abstract concept of freedom" is defined as:
freeÂdom
n.
1. The condition of being free of restraints.
If your only issue is preventing people from tying the android name to bad user experiences, why not simply defend the trademark and release the free stack under a different name? worked for apple, and worked for java, who didn't even bother changing name.
No problem for me. Maybe, those who wrote the code and see other guys get money from it, putting it into a proprietary license, and in the future possibly prevent improvements on the free code base using patents, maybe those have a problem and wish they used the gpl v.2 or later. But I'm too pessimist, for now let's hope the free code stays free and let other people do what they want with it.
he, who? doesn't even list an email address. There is no problem with public forums, there is a problem in the mandatory real name policy.
Better to be strict, a badly written kernel module in an hypervisor is a security nightmare. Also oracle doesn't seem very idealistic about FOSS and even shows little lip service to it, so I think that simply waiting for them to fix stuff would not have worked so much.
Did the guy you were replying to imply linux repairs itself? He said it's easy to do something to linund ox because everything is treatable with some tools. I said it's also easy to get full featured and completely compatible versions on USB sticks SD cards live cds. I'll up the ante pointing out that the tools are multiplatform (in case you need to check out a powerpc config file) and that recovering a partition when you switched out enough hardware make windows barf out at boot. While linux tries it best to work with whatever it finds when it boots.
> and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person
in fact, if you search for "do not judge" in google, first result is buddh...er.. ok, beginners luck.
I'll try "do not kill"... FUUUUUUU
The other OSes can be installed on cd dvd and usb and booted from there when your hd goes clicky clicky. A 512 mb sd card can hold a linux os on which you can do work, an xp freshly installed system needs drivers for printing scanning 3d even unencrypted dvd.
You talk about the sum, me about the factors. Usability decreases with the removal, and increases if the replacement makes up for the loss. Did the ribbon make up for the loss?
Notice that in your examples you ADDED stuff, not removed it. Command lines are windows in a GUI. Ditto for tabs.
And apple is not a good exampe as it gradually went back to more mainstream choices. Lisa was more different than the mac, the mac moved the close button "on the wrong side" like windows, and got a command line. The desktop metaphor - which incidentally proves that familiarity can be increased by changes - and the standard look of mac apps are a thing of the past.
The usefulness of alternatives to the start menu is irrelevant because the start menu was familiar to the average user.
Taking familiar stuff away decreases usability, always.
Of course MS uses the same metrics or usability that everybody else does, so they know it. But they want to make their environment unique no matter the cost, so that switching to alternatives is cumbersome and/or competition has to catch up if they want to provide an UI familiar to windows users.
We could call it "ribbonisation", or, in linux land, "ubuntisation".
It figures, yet the obsession with performance seemingly tied with the establishment of chrome seems out of place to me.
And like a car from the 70s, it's possibly more environmentally friendly to keep it if you run it sparingly instead of sending it to the dumpster and buying new cheap crap made by an underpaid drone, ultimately directed by a bunch of sociopaths in grey suits.
I don't get this: In the beginning browsers were judged by how they rendered... well, respond to broken sites made for other browsers. When chrome was the new kid on the block, suddenly browsers' performance matters to the millisecond. When FF catches up, performance doesn't matter.
Sure sure, I don't care for milliseconds too. And since FF depends on google and google has its own horse, I think it is doomed even if the code will live on. But at the moment I am quite content with ff+noscript+debian even on older hardware.
I heard FF version number wants to track how many times Berlusconi has issues with justice. They lag behind, a bit.
may that happen because he has a fullscreen terminal window opened by xinit and not much else? :D
Except the killing did not happen, so you are condemning the ideal act of considering a god as your god, which is tautological. Following ideals to the extreme detriment of oneself is fought by the current system, so that doesn't surprise me.
But of course you're instead condemning those who would obey such an order should it come in the future. A pity that a christian could perfectly refuse to obey that order since it would be teaching twice the same lesson and a supreme being with alzheimer is not probably the real god, so...
Sorry buddy but you're not the judge.
If you think Mt5 clashes with Mt7, either it's a scam and the writers were so dumb - or so clever- to try and make you believe to illogical things, or it's not a scam and then you have to work out how fulfillment does not necessarily clash with "being static", especially when the receivers of teachings are evolving creatures.
Free to choose - somebody is still gonna slap his 40ish son as if he was 4 and dropping the icecream.
So, to be kind and politically correct towards windows - stockholm syndrome is real - we must ignore the fact that OSX has indeed less volume and variety of malware? Does not make sense.
OSX has less malware than windows and is the more refined desktop OS out there. Windows has more games and possibly vertical apps, and I prefer debian to both. See? No problems.
> I have been a slashdot slacker lately. Wow. Some things never change. I guess, to fit in, I have to hate all things DRM and all things Microsoft.
Or you can repeat past gen's mistakes with microsoft.
But people wise up, and will instead repeat past gen's mistakes with apple or google.
As for whatever TFA says, data exchange is a problem already solved by "standards", that worked already in the time when tablets were made of clay. MS is going the "new standard controlled by us as soon as we have enough share" route, have a fun ride.
> Like .bash_history ?
Nobody reads the 2000 page *nix manuals anymore, I guess?
I am not sure yours is a counterpoint, and I'd see postgres more suitable to replace oracle.
> It's called Fedora.... Also known as the crowd-sourced beta testing for RHEL.
FTFY
>they just don't know how to handle things.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Or so think those who believe the excuses of malicious people.
How comfortable does it feel to know your company database is in the hands of these fine folks.
Even easier: put it in a blimp ;)