...abstruse and incomprehensible to anybody outside their little circle.
Its "obtuse", but your point is taken. But let's be honest, many, if not every, circle of technical wizards in charge of a popular project gets infected with elitism to some degree. I will say however, and without really understanding the exact technical reasons canonical seems to be taking the technical "high road" and laughing some of their userbase writhes in pain on the ground behind them.
Been on/. a long time, lunacy is in the eye of the beholder. If the king of lunatics as big as the US Gov, who among the peons can say any particular person is a lunatic with any credibility?
I've been a life-long cinservative. Now, the way I see it, the US Government is the lunatic. If your livelyhood depends on that entiity, who are you to question it, right? Of course everyone else is a lunatic.
A false sense of WHAT? I cherry picked WHAT??? I'm sitting here in CALIFOIRNIA just sort of shooting off repsonses to idiots, I'm not writing a peer-reviewed article, just an opinion, AS AN AMERICAN, understanding however that the US GOV is OFF ITS ROCKER as a democratic institution, and I'm a european shill now? So much for land of the free... OUR government is out of control. Scrape the shit out of your eyes, brother. This govnernment set out a plate of delicacies called the "Internet", implicitlly said "I will govern this gift with a benevolant hand", and then whosale helped itself to whatever secrets it wanted. That's morally wrong, I don't care what you say. This government is under the illusion that it knows what's right. The last 10 years show it really isn't. To believe otherwise is to be blind, or complicate.
i think several countries who think they have the tehcnological balls are leaning in that direction. I really don't have a problem with the logic, if some one is going to claim to be a non-partisan, benevolant, shepherd of the world's main digital infrastructure (implied by the fact that the US has resisted efforts to make ICANN a part of the UN, which was an intelligent decision in my opinion) they need to NOT be evil. The US has broken this implied promise, and has completely ruined the good will it has enjoyed with other western countries, the few in the middle east, and everywhere else. Its like believing your mother has been stashing away your newspaper money and then finding out from your brother she spent it on crack. Its a complete collapse of the goodwill built up since WWII. The US government has gone from being a 9/11 victim deserving of sympathy to a paranoid 800 lb gorilla just itching for some one to look at it cross-eyed, and intelligent, civilized people are looking at with a new eye, and rightly so.
I see a lot of American idiots who say "If you're doing nothing wrong, what does it matter?" right here, even on this supposedly anarchist-leaning forum. Well, ask yourself: Why does Angela Merkel have a problem with the US Gov spying on her? What would your response be? "Oh, well, she's a peer, she's the head of another Government..." why should that be any different? The US Government is supposed to be working FOR YOU, they are YOUR EMPLOYEE. This and the subprime fiasco should be a huge red flag. That more Americans aren't apalled at what this government has been up to lately is astounding to me. Keep 'em hungry and thay'll be happy with the few crumbs they do get, I guess.
No, but the US sucks becuase it got caught. If you're gonna spy on your friends, you CAN NOT get caught. Period. Relying on the silence of underlings only shows off your real weakness.
The Crown funded most of the transport, infrastructure and civil service of the American Colonies...
No, the colonies did becuase George III, a porphyric idiot, started upping the taxes to pay for England's little imperialistic chessmatch with France. The Crown bestowed no gifts. Or was the Boston Tea Party a little fraternity roughhousing?
Your right, but a surprising number of the games I enjoy run on Linux just fine, infact I have an older I really like that actually runs better on Wine. Just sayin'.
There was nothing plainly broken about Qt under Nokia, at least from anything I could see, and its still the only truly cross-platform gui framework around for native applications. As for the web, I would bet on RoR, at least for the forseeable fututre. For mobile apps, well, That's going to be interesting. HTML5 seems like the way to go, not even Qt for Android seems usable to me right now. But the OP has a point, its a difficult situation. Best thing to do is pick one and be prepared to maintain it yourself, hopefully its a foss angle.
This is all about the strength of the car dealer lobby in Texas, and the politicians who have interests in them, that's all. After oil, car (and truck) dealers are the #2 industry there. That's an overstatement, but pretty darn near up there. That's all that's going on there, its not about "freedom" or any other political catchphrase.
Why do I have to be specific about treacle? You did a good job of generalizing a bunch of American crap, I'm having just as much fun generalizing British crap. You make a broad claim, get a broad retort. I'm not gonna drill it down for ya, you can do the hard work. Blood pudding is a gross item, anyway you look at it. I'm tossing it in because it exists, weather or not if fits in your "category". And the package of ccb's I had once said just that; "Clotted Cream Biscuits".
Now step off ya limey bastard.
Yes. treacle, blood pudding, and clotted cream biscuits are much better than anything over here. We eat pure shit compared to the delicacies to be had in your dusty corner for the world.
Absolutely, although I'm a little surprised some software hotshot hasn't audited it yet on his own just to make a name for himself. It would be a complex analysis, for sure, but independants have done more complex things.
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I read the headline and came away with "Lou Reed Just Died". I'm gonna miss that guy.
The Laser Disc system was first named "DiscoVision". Wow...
Johnny (as a Death Star tech) is seen behind a control bay plugging the laser cannon back into its power source giggling "Just kidding!"
meh. thrilling.
...abstruse and incomprehensible to anybody outside their little circle.
Its "obtuse", but your point is taken. But let's be honest, many, if not every, circle of technical wizards in charge of a popular project gets infected with elitism to some degree. I will say however, and without really understanding the exact technical reasons canonical seems to be taking the technical "high road" and laughing some of their userbase writhes in pain on the ground behind them.
Say what you want, I didn't need any help hating Unity.
They should at least provide a demo, which they'll be doing soon, I hope.
Been on /. a long time, lunacy is in the eye of the beholder. If the king of lunatics as big as the US Gov, who among the peons can say any particular person is a lunatic with any credibility?
I've been a life-long cinservative. Now, the way I see it, the US Government is the lunatic. If your livelyhood depends on that entiity, who are you to question it, right? Of course everyone else is a lunatic.
To a mad tyrant.
A false sense of WHAT? I cherry picked WHAT??? I'm sitting here in CALIFOIRNIA just sort of shooting off repsonses to idiots, I'm not writing a peer-reviewed article, just an opinion, AS AN AMERICAN, understanding however that the US GOV is OFF ITS ROCKER as a democratic institution, and I'm a european shill now? So much for land of the free... OUR government is out of control. Scrape the shit out of your eyes, brother. This govnernment set out a plate of delicacies called the "Internet", implicitlly said "I will govern this gift with a benevolant hand", and then whosale helped itself to whatever secrets it wanted. That's morally wrong, I don't care what you say. This government is under the illusion that it knows what's right. The last 10 years show it really isn't. To believe otherwise is to be blind, or complicate.
i think several countries who think they have the tehcnological balls are leaning in that direction. I really don't have a problem with the logic, if some one is going to claim to be a non-partisan, benevolant, shepherd of the world's main digital infrastructure (implied by the fact that the US has resisted efforts to make ICANN a part of the UN, which was an intelligent decision in my opinion) they need to NOT be evil. The US has broken this implied promise, and has completely ruined the good will it has enjoyed with other western countries, the few in the middle east, and everywhere else. Its like believing your mother has been stashing away your newspaper money and then finding out from your brother she spent it on crack. Its a complete collapse of the goodwill built up since WWII. The US government has gone from being a 9/11 victim deserving of sympathy to a paranoid 800 lb gorilla just itching for some one to look at it cross-eyed, and intelligent, civilized people are looking at with a new eye, and rightly so.
I see a lot of American idiots who say "If you're doing nothing wrong, what does it matter?" right here, even on this supposedly anarchist-leaning forum. Well, ask yourself: Why does Angela Merkel have a problem with the US Gov spying on her? What would your response be? "Oh, well, she's a peer, she's the head of another Government..." why should that be any different? The US Government is supposed to be working FOR YOU, they are YOUR EMPLOYEE. This and the subprime fiasco should be a huge red flag. That more Americans aren't apalled at what this government has been up to lately is astounding to me. Keep 'em hungry and thay'll be happy with the few crumbs they do get, I guess.
No, but the US sucks becuase it got caught. If you're gonna spy on your friends, you CAN NOT get caught. Period. Relying on the silence of underlings only shows off your real weakness.
All bets are off when your hand is revealed, man.
The Crown funded most of the transport, infrastructure and civil service of the American Colonies...
No, the colonies did becuase George III, a porphyric idiot, started upping the taxes to pay for England's little imperialistic chessmatch with France. The Crown bestowed no gifts. Or was the Boston Tea Party a little fraternity roughhousing?
Maybe he was playing with a toy gun.
Android and Windows Vista/7/8 get away by not using Xorg and exclusively using proprietary drivers.
Obvious Man states the obvious. But they aren't "getting away" by simply writing code to their own specs.
Your right, but a surprising number of the games I enjoy run on Linux just fine, infact I have an older I really like that actually runs better on Wine. Just sayin'.
There was nothing plainly broken about Qt under Nokia, at least from anything I could see, and its still the only truly cross-platform gui framework around for native applications. As for the web, I would bet on RoR, at least for the forseeable fututre. For mobile apps, well, That's going to be interesting. HTML5 seems like the way to go, not even Qt for Android seems usable to me right now. But the OP has a point, its a difficult situation. Best thing to do is pick one and be prepared to maintain it yourself, hopefully its a foss angle.
Yeah, that, and Tesla's sales cycle is a disruptive one, I think has someting to do with it.
This is a rediculous post. Bruce Schneier can be trusted as much as anyone can be "trusted" until he shows otherwise. What a waste of bandwidth.
This is all about the strength of the car dealer lobby in Texas, and the politicians who have interests in them, that's all. After oil, car (and truck) dealers are the #2 industry there. That's an overstatement, but pretty darn near up there. That's all that's going on there, its not about "freedom" or any other political catchphrase.
We should allow human sacrifices for those religions that allow them then, obviously.
Why do I have to be specific about treacle? You did a good job of generalizing a bunch of American crap, I'm having just as much fun generalizing British crap. You make a broad claim, get a broad retort. I'm not gonna drill it down for ya, you can do the hard work. Blood pudding is a gross item, anyway you look at it. I'm tossing it in because it exists, weather or not if fits in your "category". And the package of ccb's I had once said just that; "Clotted Cream Biscuits". Now step off ya limey bastard.
Yes. treacle, blood pudding, and clotted cream biscuits are much better than anything over here. We eat pure shit compared to the delicacies to be had in your dusty corner for the world.
Absolutely, although I'm a little surprised some software hotshot hasn't audited it yet on his own just to make a name for himself. It would be a complex analysis, for sure, but independants have done more complex things.