If you truly care about your product, posts that are essentially reviews about it are not going to be a problem, and you'll "give a flying fuck" abiout them. With your attitude everything online is pointless. So why hang around here?
File links are still strange, anomalous objects that other truly posix-compliant processes don't know what to do with. If you really think file links on Windows are useful you're fooling yourself or don't know any better.
The kernel is still a black-box collection of shared objects with a black-box threading model, as opposed to anyone with the time and gumption can look at the linux kernel and directly see why things happen the way they do.
Objects can still be one of several distinct classes that require special treatment or approches to processing where as in Linux EVERYTHING is ultimately a file, or at least looks like a file, greatly simplifying interfacing.
I KNOW there are other archectural issues that stick in my throat about windows but those three I think about and deal with all the time.
How does that fit into the free market capitalism that made America great?
It has nothing to do with capitolism, but it has everything to do with democracy and secret ballot free elections, and PR. This just looks shitty to the voting public. As an American IT worker, it looks shitty to me. Obama isn't winning a lot of PR victories lately, and now this.
I don't recall anyone sitting down with me and explaining taxes, the penal code, family law (with regard to chihldren out of wedlock), and how to manage my checkbook. Other than only cursory explanations from my parents and some half-assed sex ed in school I had to figure out on my own what the implecations are of handling any of that stuff incorrectly.
I've long felt that schools have been doing a disservice to pupils since the 70's; preparing grade school kids for life should include basic money management, awareness of the state and federal tax code, family law, and the penal code. It takes an education to understand the responsibilities society places on you and the consequences of ignoring them, yet we toss our kids to the wolves as soon as they complete primary without any of that. Its really rather silly.
I would think that a controls engineer would have quite a bit in common with a pilot; converting measurement units, telemetry, and you're almost guaranteed to need to know something about proportional-integral-derivatives (or PLC PID instructions, look them up). I'd think an engineer who was a pilot would be an attractive canidate to an employer.
LMFAO! Oh, wait, was that supposed to be serious? I mean, it's not like you're hurting Ubuntu...
Well, can't speak for anyone else but I for one am not interested in revenge on Canonical. I'm not that activist. I just need to get some work done. Perhaps you just need to lighten up on the Jolt 'n Monster nrg drinks.
I've never faulted them for trying to upshelf X, infact I aplauded the effort, some parts of X are so crusty they've turned to stone. But in so doing they've made the os inconvienient. Inconvinience in a pair of trousers is one thing, inconvienience when there's money and customers on the line however? That's unforgivable.
If everything was the same in every OS, things would be very boring.
Say I have this screwdriver that I like very much, and I use it on every flat headed screw I find. Then say the manufacturer updates the screwdriver every year, but it keeps doing what I need it to do, plus they add neat stuff like comfort grip or head lights or whatever. Still screws screws though. Great. Love it. Then one day they decide to add a phillips adapter. Ok, does it still turn flatheads? Ok. I still love my screwdriver. THEN: they decide they want it to turn tri-screws, and if you want it to turn flatheads you have to engage a little catch on the end of the handle that's hard to see and extend the flathead attachment. What the hell??!??!?? Exciting? Certainly, the excitement poors from my head as I feverously read manuals and user forums trying to figure out how to get that flathead extended as I really still just need the driver to do what it always did. Infact, I almost never encounter triscrews, AT ALL.
...will Wikipedia ever be able to flex any interactive multimedia muscle, and create a more interactive and guided experience for young learners?
Not to answer for Jimmy but NO! That would be a TERRIBLE idea. Wikimedia needs to concentrate on Wikipedia. But there's nothing to prevent some entrepreneur from copying the content and creating such a thing themselves. I'm sure they'd love to license up some one who wanted to do that.
My thought exactly. Binstock is certainly correct, but the tone of the article is as if there is a world-wide problem that needs to be addressed. I don't think so. I think he feels the need to qualify a programmatically philosophical point that everyone implicately understands already. For example, I've never had a manager look at my project and say "It has to be simpler!", meanwhile I'm always questioning my code and looking for stuff I can remove. When I get to a point where I simply can't, I move on.
Don't be rediculous. Advancements and research in science is money much better spent than throwing young men around the world to kill and die. You wanna save money? Tell congress to stop funding presidential wars.
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Oh? What exactly did that comment have to do with the discussion at hand?
Fu*k all you pretentious assholes that think they speak for all technical savvy users.
I have been supporting Windows since Windows 3.11
Sure, the kool-aid tastes great even after the heart stops.
You're confused. Science has always been by consensus.
Uh, NO. You're the confused one. Sorry you got hit by the bogus science peddlers.
If you truly care about your product, posts that are essentially reviews about it are not going to be a problem, and you'll "give a flying fuck" abiout them. With your attitude everything online is pointless. So why hang around here?
I KNOW there are other archectural issues that stick in my throat about windows but those three I think about and deal with all the time.
How does that fit into the free market capitalism that made America great?
It has nothing to do with capitolism, but it has everything to do with democracy and secret ballot free elections, and PR. This just looks shitty to the voting public. As an American IT worker, it looks shitty to me. Obama isn't winning a lot of PR victories lately, and now this.
I don't recall anyone sitting down with me and explaining taxes, the penal code, family law (with regard to chihldren out of wedlock), and how to manage my checkbook. Other than only cursory explanations from my parents and some half-assed sex ed in school I had to figure out on my own what the implecations are of handling any of that stuff incorrectly.
I've long felt that schools have been doing a disservice to pupils since the 70's; preparing grade school kids for life should include basic money management, awareness of the state and federal tax code, family law, and the penal code. It takes an education to understand the responsibilities society places on you and the consequences of ignoring them, yet we toss our kids to the wolves as soon as they complete primary without any of that. Its really rather silly.
I would think that a controls engineer would have quite a bit in common with a pilot; converting measurement units, telemetry, and you're almost guaranteed to need to know something about proportional-integral-derivatives (or PLC PID instructions, look them up). I'd think an engineer who was a pilot would be an attractive canidate to an employer.
LMFAO! Oh, wait, was that supposed to be serious? I mean, it's not like you're hurting Ubuntu...
Well, can't speak for anyone else but I for one am not interested in revenge on Canonical. I'm not that activist. I just need to get some work done. Perhaps you just need to lighten up on the Jolt 'n Monster nrg drinks.
Your brother was smart. He was protecting you from inane schlock.
...it is contaminated by unislamic content like blasphemy and pornography.
Let's not forget 'apostacy', which essentially the Islamic crime of being a Christian.
Hey, who let Archie Bunker use their computer?
I've never faulted them for trying to upshelf X, infact I aplauded the effort, some parts of X are so crusty they've turned to stone. But in so doing they've made the os inconvienient. Inconvinience in a pair of trousers is one thing, inconvienience when there's money and customers on the line however? That's unforgivable.
If everything was the same in every OS, things would be very boring.
Say I have this screwdriver that I like very much, and I use it on every flat headed screw I find. Then say the manufacturer updates the screwdriver every year, but it keeps doing what I need it to do, plus they add neat stuff like comfort grip or head lights or whatever. Still screws screws though. Great. Love it. Then one day they decide to add a phillips adapter. Ok, does it still turn flatheads? Ok. I still love my screwdriver. THEN: they decide they want it to turn tri-screws, and if you want it to turn flatheads you have to engage a little catch on the end of the handle that's hard to see and extend the flathead attachment. What the hell??!??!?? Exciting? Certainly, the excitement poors from my head as I feverously read manuals and user forums trying to figure out how to get that flathead extended as I really still just need the driver to do what it always did. Infact, I almost never encounter triscrews, AT ALL.
This is the current state of Ubuntu.
...will Wikipedia ever be able to flex any interactive multimedia muscle, and create a more interactive and guided experience for young learners?
Not to answer for Jimmy but NO! That would be a TERRIBLE idea. Wikimedia needs to concentrate on Wikipedia. But there's nothing to prevent some entrepreneur from copying the content and creating such a thing themselves. I'm sure they'd love to license up some one who wanted to do that.
Currently, Wikipedia Foundation is a single point of failure.
Its actually not, unless you belive digital media itself is a "single point of failure" (its not).
I'd rather have google ads than those donation campaigns.
Don't be drammatic, they come along once in a blue moon.
What do you imagine to be the technology or concept that will eventually push Wikipedia(as it currently exists) off the throne of general knowledge?
Knowlege in pill form. Or so it will go according to the lore and mythology of that hallowed paragon of entertainment "The Jetsons."
My thought exactly. Binstock is certainly correct, but the tone of the article is as if there is a world-wide problem that needs to be addressed. I don't think so. I think he feels the need to qualify a programmatically philosophical point that everyone implicately understands already. For example, I've never had a manager look at my project and say "It has to be simpler!", meanwhile I'm always questioning my code and looking for stuff I can remove. When I get to a point where I simply can't, I move on.
...road tax...
This is brought to you by the same people who brought you the VAT and the television tax.
Whereas in the east the govs. simply toss you in prison. Yeah, strait to the point. That's the way to go.
Right on. This is what I've done as well.
Don't be rediculous. Advancements and research in science is money much better spent than throwing young men around the world to kill and die. You wanna save money? Tell congress to stop funding presidential wars.
The PS4 runs a FreeBSD kernel? Who knew...? Kind wonder why... the BSD side of the tree has code older than Adam...