The immediate problem is steganography. It's not encryption, per se, but mountains of info can be sent in plain sight with none the wiser, if done correctly.
The best way to tell any government to shove it is to point to China and ask - are you promoting communism like China and their Great Firewall?
Hit the patent issuers benefits somehow, bonuses are probably best. Have a 10 and 20 year bonus payout. You're expected to do 'n' patents a year, all patents you review go into the bonus pool. All patents you reject that are later granted and upheld remove double their count. All patents you grant that are held invalid remove 5 times their count. (Numbers adjustable, obviously) It also solves the issue of keeping patent folks on the job, something that's apparently a problem. You'd have to stay in the job 200 years for the 10 year vesting to count, 30 years for the 20 year vesting to count, so you get 20 years worth of payouts after retiring from the bonus pool after 30+ years of work.
Money is a driver, so let it drive the desired outcomes.
The man still has a 38% approval rating. 4 out of 10 Americans think he's doing a good job. If that isn't hilarious in its absurdity, then I don't know what is.
So does that mean almost 4 in 10 Americans would cut off their nose to spite their face instead of admitting they're idiots and had their asses handed to them?
He's only been president for 7 months! He has done literally nothing that could be construed as having major impacts on the economy, unless he believes his mere presence moves markets.
Of course he does!!! Haven't you been listening to him?
Most "Software devs" today are barely aware of anything approaching real large scale code development. Therefore they have never been exposed to the need for proper packaging and maintaining manifests. It's sad state of affairs that the bulk of the profession is barely able to tie their figurative shoelaces.
Yeah, I don't get this. Even if I were to host a public/private github repo, I'd still run and have the authoritative copy in house. It's not like it's a huge effort to run a copy either. (if you're really wanting to do it in house on the cheap, buy a Mac Mini and OSX Server - boom - instant repo in about 10 minutes, otherwise, get a decent Apple/Linux box and setup GitLab or something similar)
I don't do 4 often as it slows things down too much, but 5 and 6 definitely. 6 ended the ads following me, at least until the next time you log into amazon or google (or, I guess, facebook or see what prez tweety burped today) it's pretty interesting to see when those ads come back. I block several of google, facebook, and twitter domains, so the amount of ads I see and that track me are pretty low.
As old farts as we are you can whine about Microsoft Office but I do not see much is better these days. It won for a reason.
Maybe that's because:
MS Office sucks ass. Always has. It didn't "win" because it was best. It won because MS leveraged their OS monopoly to kill all competition.
Libreoffice is plain ugly and the included spreadsheet program is no Excel. It reminds me of office 97.
That's interesting. Because that's the last usable interface of Office, IMNSHO. (Office 2000/2003 etc used the same interface, more or less, it wasn't until the horrible ribbon in 2010 that things really went south - yeah, that's a great idea - let's make context sensitive menus where 70% of the things you'd need to look up through the menu system are hidden by default - make it a game of hide and seek instead, because, you know, there's nothing more productive than that.)
But make decent developer tools and office productivity programs. That is their strength.
You may hate me but I am getting used to Office 365 with SharePoint, Dwelve, Dynamics, teams, and bookings besides the standard office suite it includes. They are web based so check them out?
Why would I hate you? The fact that they're web-based is the first reason I dislike them. I'm often moving about and not connected to the internet when I need to use office software. Their offline functionality just isn't there yet. Sharepoint as a consumer isn't overly terrible, I guess. It's when you need to customize it you wind up having to write code for everything, no matter how small a change to the basic flow Sharepoint provides out of the box. That sucks. Their development tools are mediocre at best, and their documentation, well, used toilet paper is sometimes a better source of information.
I disagree with Eclipse. But if I had a gun to my head and had to choose Apple or Windows. I would pick Windows in a heart beat.
Eclipse is a system you have to use enough to like, much like IntelliJ. Although, having used the latest iterations of both quite a bit recently, IntelliJ appears to be lacking some significant ease of use features I leverage in Eclipse. Nothing too terrible, but it does require thinking and typing more. On the plus side, it does handle method completions a little better when looking up a new name with arguments, but fails in loading args for a new reference.
As for having to choose windows or something else, it would almost always be something else. It would always be something else if the choice is win10, as that's not a choice, but something you wish on your enemies. Given Apple's relatively stable OS since 10.9 more than 3 years ago, I wonder at your Apple hatred. They certainly make good hardware, although I'm no fan of the latest touchbar MBPs. Note that OSX overall has been pretty decent, the instability introduced in 10.7/10.8 will wind up being for a good reason that will become evident in another 3-5 years. That's when MS will figure out that massively multi-core CPUs are the future and scramble to cobble together some sort of OS that works on it while Apple's OSX will just work, because that's what the fundamental change under the covers was all about. I'm amazed on the one hand they pulled it off with so little negative effects. OTOH, I would have preferred that it didn't come out until at least 10.9. iOS is also benefiting from those changes, and also has experienced some of the pain, since iOS 9 and later.
The good news is Microsoft is going pro opensource and multiplatform now as people are moving to mobile and clouds and do not care about Windows like they once did. It is a different company now as Gates and Balmer have both left and competition changed them
They're moving to cloud because if they don't, their business will b
I want a FreeBSD based stable OS with the GUI and ease of use of Ubuntu of 2006 with compviz and the app and development ecosystem of Windows.
NetBSD would be better;) But, I do admit the Ubuntu circa 2006-2011 or so were pretty easy, but why not go with Mint as of 2014 or 2015? I never used compviz, so can't comment.
Regarding the app and development ecosystem of windows? Are you kidding me? The apps are generally terrible, the development ecosystem seriously blows donkey turds. And yes, I have done windows system development recently enough to have a real opinion about how badly the entire windows system sucks, internally. I don't believe win10 made any improvements.
If they DOJ split MS we would have a cool office suite, SharePoint, visual studio and cloud services on all platforms. Oddly the new MS is moving in this direction as it cares about clouds azure and software rentals. But the Windows kernel is not bad today and like what vs code and visual studio are today.
MS Office sucks ass. Always has. It didn't "win" because it was best. It won because MS leveraged their OS monopoly to kill all competition.
Sharepoint, let me count the ways it sucks. You can start with having to write code for every little function and....never mind, I'll never finish this post.
The windows kernel is a pile of moldy swiss cheese as far as security goes. It's a fundamental failure at the base architectural level. I don't expect this to ever get fixed until the kernel is replaced.
While Visual Studio is sucky, so is Xcode. Android Studio isn't absolutely terrible, I'm still getting used to it. Eclipse works pretty well for what I use it for, IntelliJ seems adequate as well, I just don't prefer it (No choice with Android Studio, obviously) There's a host of other IDEs I've used in the past, all are pretty much subsets of VS/Xcode functionality, with some being significantly less capable.
?? XP? Does the term Winrot bring any memories of the past?
I have a feeling that would be more than 1 story to properly cover it. What do you mean by Winrot? The guaranteed self-destruction of NTFS via fragmentation? The guaranteed corruption of the registry? Or the guaranteed library DLL hell after a few months of updates and running various programs? Or something else entirely? There's so many things that term can apply to, all negative, and all requiring a reinstall.
I was going to say Windows is supperior in the fact it doesn't break between releases because it has an ABI compared to Linux. Hairyfeet on here has the hairyfeet challenge. Get any Linux distro in a VM and run more than 2 updates and see if it will still work?
I had no issues with Linux Debian 8->11. Then again, I don't use it for my fulltime desktop. So a plain vanilla install probably has fewer gotchas.
If you think OSX is stable you must not have used mountain lion or used wifi with yosemite.
I ran yosemite until I had to upgrade to macOS Sierra on my laptop. I had exactly 0 issues with 10.10, and, it being a laptop frequently moved, I guess I would have seen a wifi issue. Now, granted, I don't search automatically for wifi connections. I had 10.8 on my HTPC until just last month. Rock solid compared to any windows install I ever owned. Compared to 10.6 or 10.10? Not quite as good. However, 10.12 is running better than the previous 10.8, we'll see how it continues.
Safari sometimes can work with Office 365. Every other browser works fine with it.
MS product doesn't work 100% with Safari? Color me shocked.
When you uninstall something on MacOSX it leaves part of its traces on the system which become a nightmare to troubleshoot. Apple in it's wisdom wants to make sure you can't read hidden files in your ~libraries to find the cryptic containers to rid of the broken app that sticks around after an uninstall.
I don't seem to have a problem with reading any of those "hidden" files. Now, does the ~/Library file show up in Finder? It sure does, if you alter the preferences. (I had to look, admittedly, because I use Finder so seldom for Library file access)
Linux might have a GUI that changed little but it is unusable. I do not want a cell phone my desktop with Gnome3.
I'm not sure what that means. If it changed little, it's a functional clone of XP. Otherwise it changed a lot, and it looks like a cell phone. It can't be both. Personally, Gnome is dead to me. Systemd is not something I want on my systems.
I switched back to Windows from Linux when 10 came out cause they fixed all the windows 7 fuckups. UI was a pain in the ass to get used to, but that's with any new OS
I'd disagree - OSX has been relatively stable across many many releases as far as GUI interaction goes. Linux, on the whole, has kept its GUI more stable than any 2 consecutive releases of windows ever has since XP, possibly with the exception of the 8.0->8.1 point release, which I personally avoided like the steaming pile of shit it was.
Assange has a stake in not being a Russian patsy. It would invalidate his entire life's work immediately.
Murray, for whatever reason, is attempting to support Assange. (perhaps his job security?)
What do the pentagon papers have to do with it? Or Snowden? Or Manning? (Might as well grab all the major leakers you might come up with)
Not a single one of those links provides any proof or even evidence that the DNC emails were an internal job. It's no better than heresay or the local grifter claiming he did something in order to get another job. Next you'll be quoting Alex Jones or bringing up Pizzagate.
As regards the trivial harm scenario, I see that you do find something offensive about shit hitting you. It may surprise you or open your mind (there's always a chance) but some of us don't consider your smoke/vape exhalations as a much better option and results in the same reaction - walking away.
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The hard part is to code so you do not have to use locks. Let that simmer for a while.
The immediate problem is steganography. It's not encryption, per se, but mountains of info can be sent in plain sight with none the wiser, if done correctly.
The best way to tell any government to shove it is to point to China and ask - are you promoting communism like China and their Great Firewall?
if a trusted 3rd party was the sole authority.
And therein lies the problem with Bitcoin. Neither option really works at scale.
how is facebook simplistic? it needs to:
So, we have hashtagging sucking up most of 275MB of space. Excellent programmers there!
Only half?
Hit the patent issuers benefits somehow, bonuses are probably best. Have a 10 and 20 year bonus payout. You're expected to do 'n' patents a year, all patents you review go into the bonus pool. All patents you reject that are later granted and upheld remove double their count. All patents you grant that are held invalid remove 5 times their count. (Numbers adjustable, obviously) It also solves the issue of keeping patent folks on the job, something that's apparently a problem. You'd have to stay in the job 200 years for the 10 year vesting to count, 30 years for the 20 year vesting to count, so you get 20 years worth of payouts after retiring from the bonus pool after 30+ years of work.
Money is a driver, so let it drive the desired outcomes.
The man still has a 38% approval rating. 4 out of 10 Americans think he's doing a good job. If that isn't hilarious in its absurdity, then I don't know what is.
So does that mean almost 4 in 10 Americans would cut off their nose to spite their face instead of admitting they're idiots and had their asses handed to them?
He's only been president for 7 months! He has done literally nothing that could be construed as having major impacts on the economy, unless he believes his mere presence moves markets.
Of course he does!!! Haven't you been listening to him?
At least Rocky Horror is entertaining. This reality show is frightening.
That's not illegal, that's merely a violation of the user agreement.
Most "Software devs" today are barely aware of anything approaching real large scale code development. Therefore they have never been exposed to the need for proper packaging and maintaining manifests. It's sad state of affairs that the bulk of the profession is barely able to tie their figurative shoelaces.
Depending upon how it's done, they have a backup of the part of the repo they're tracking, nothing more.
VSS? ROTFLMAO. Seriously. Even CVS/Subversion with their known issues with atomic commits seem like warp drive starships next to the VSS travois.
Yeah, I don't get this. Even if I were to host a public/private github repo, I'd still run and have the authoritative copy in house. It's not like it's a huge effort to run a copy either. (if you're really wanting to do it in house on the cheap, buy a Mac Mini and OSX Server - boom - instant repo in about 10 minutes, otherwise, get a decent Apple/Linux box and setup GitLab or something similar)
I don't do 4 often as it slows things down too much, but 5 and 6 definitely. 6 ended the ads following me, at least until the next time you log into amazon or google (or, I guess, facebook or see what prez tweety burped today) it's pretty interesting to see when those ads come back. I block several of google, facebook, and twitter domains, so the amount of ads I see and that track me are pretty low.
Exactly they all suck in their own little ways :-)
As old farts as we are you can whine about Microsoft Office but I do not see much is better these days. It won for a reason.
Maybe that's because:
Libreoffice is plain ugly and the included spreadsheet program is no Excel. It reminds me of office 97.
That's interesting. Because that's the last usable interface of Office, IMNSHO. (Office 2000/2003 etc used the same interface, more or less, it wasn't until the horrible ribbon in 2010 that things really went south - yeah, that's a great idea - let's make context sensitive menus where 70% of the things you'd need to look up through the menu system are hidden by default - make it a game of hide and seek instead, because, you know, there's nothing more productive than that.)
But make decent developer tools and office productivity programs. That is their strength.
You may hate me but I am getting used to Office 365 with SharePoint, Dwelve, Dynamics, teams, and bookings besides the standard office suite it includes. They are web based so check them out?
Why would I hate you? The fact that they're web-based is the first reason I dislike them. I'm often moving about and not connected to the internet when I need to use office software. Their offline functionality just isn't there yet. Sharepoint as a consumer isn't overly terrible, I guess. It's when you need to customize it you wind up having to write code for everything, no matter how small a change to the basic flow Sharepoint provides out of the box. That sucks. Their development tools are mediocre at best, and their documentation, well, used toilet paper is sometimes a better source of information.
I disagree with Eclipse. But if I had a gun to my head and had to choose Apple or Windows. I would pick Windows in a heart beat.
Eclipse is a system you have to use enough to like, much like IntelliJ. Although, having used the latest iterations of both quite a bit recently, IntelliJ appears to be lacking some significant ease of use features I leverage in Eclipse. Nothing too terrible, but it does require thinking and typing more. On the plus side, it does handle method completions a little better when looking up a new name with arguments, but fails in loading args for a new reference.
As for having to choose windows or something else, it would almost always be something else. It would always be something else if the choice is win10, as that's not a choice, but something you wish on your enemies. Given Apple's relatively stable OS since 10.9 more than 3 years ago, I wonder at your Apple hatred. They certainly make good hardware, although I'm no fan of the latest touchbar MBPs. Note that OSX overall has been pretty decent, the instability introduced in 10.7/10.8 will wind up being for a good reason that will become evident in another 3-5 years. That's when MS will figure out that massively multi-core CPUs are the future and scramble to cobble together some sort of OS that works on it while Apple's OSX will just work, because that's what the fundamental change under the covers was all about. I'm amazed on the one hand they pulled it off with so little negative effects. OTOH, I would have preferred that it didn't come out until at least 10.9. iOS is also benefiting from those changes, and also has experienced some of the pain, since iOS 9 and later.
The good news is Microsoft is going pro opensource and multiplatform now as people are moving to mobile and clouds and do not care about Windows like they once did. It is a different company now as Gates and Balmer have both left and competition changed them
They're moving to cloud because if they don't, their business will b
Found an MBA!
I want a FreeBSD based stable OS with the GUI and ease of use of Ubuntu of 2006 with compviz and the app and development ecosystem of Windows.
NetBSD would be better ;) But, I do admit the Ubuntu circa 2006-2011 or so were pretty easy, but why not go with Mint as of 2014 or 2015? I never used compviz, so can't comment.
Regarding the app and development ecosystem of windows? Are you kidding me? The apps are generally terrible, the development ecosystem seriously blows donkey turds. And yes, I have done windows system development recently enough to have a real opinion about how badly the entire windows system sucks, internally. I don't believe win10 made any improvements.
If they DOJ split MS we would have a cool office suite, SharePoint, visual studio and cloud services on all platforms. Oddly the new MS is moving in this direction as it cares about clouds azure and software rentals. But the Windows kernel is not bad today and like what vs code and visual studio are today.
MS Office sucks ass. Always has. It didn't "win" because it was best. It won because MS leveraged their OS monopoly to kill all competition.
Sharepoint, let me count the ways it sucks. You can start with having to write code for every little function and....never mind, I'll never finish this post.
The windows kernel is a pile of moldy swiss cheese as far as security goes. It's a fundamental failure at the base architectural level. I don't expect this to ever get fixed until the kernel is replaced.
While Visual Studio is sucky, so is Xcode. Android Studio isn't absolutely terrible, I'm still getting used to it. Eclipse works pretty well for what I use it for, IntelliJ seems adequate as well, I just don't prefer it (No choice with Android Studio, obviously) There's a host of other IDEs I've used in the past, all are pretty much subsets of VS/Xcode functionality, with some being significantly less capable.
Apparently you don't value the freedom to not be subjected to other peoples exhaust.
?? XP? Does the term Winrot bring any memories of the past?
I have a feeling that would be more than 1 story to properly cover it. What do you mean by Winrot? The guaranteed self-destruction of NTFS via fragmentation? The guaranteed corruption of the registry? Or the guaranteed library DLL hell after a few months of updates and running various programs? Or something else entirely? There's so many things that term can apply to, all negative, and all requiring a reinstall.
I was going to say Windows is supperior in the fact it doesn't break between releases because it has an ABI compared to Linux. Hairyfeet on here has the hairyfeet challenge. Get any Linux distro in a VM and run more than 2 updates and see if it will still work?
I had no issues with Linux Debian 8->11. Then again, I don't use it for my fulltime desktop. So a plain vanilla install probably has fewer gotchas.
If you think OSX is stable you must not have used mountain lion or used wifi with yosemite.
I ran yosemite until I had to upgrade to macOS Sierra on my laptop. I had exactly 0 issues with 10.10, and, it being a laptop frequently moved, I guess I would have seen a wifi issue. Now, granted, I don't search automatically for wifi connections. I had 10.8 on my HTPC until just last month. Rock solid compared to any windows install I ever owned. Compared to 10.6 or 10.10? Not quite as good. However, 10.12 is running better than the previous 10.8, we'll see how it continues.
Safari sometimes can work with Office 365. Every other browser works fine with it.
MS product doesn't work 100% with Safari? Color me shocked.
When you uninstall something on MacOSX it leaves part of its traces on the system which become a nightmare to troubleshoot. Apple in it's wisdom wants to make sure you can't read hidden files in your ~libraries to find the cryptic containers to rid of the broken app that sticks around after an uninstall.
I don't seem to have a problem with reading any of those "hidden" files. Now, does the ~/Library file show up in Finder? It sure does, if you alter the preferences. (I had to look, admittedly, because I use Finder so seldom for Library file access)
Linux might have a GUI that changed little but it is unusable. I do not want a cell phone my desktop with Gnome3.
I'm not sure what that means. If it changed little, it's a functional clone of XP. Otherwise it changed a lot, and it looks like a cell phone. It can't be both. Personally, Gnome is dead to me. Systemd is not something I want on my systems.
I switched back to Windows from Linux when 10 came out cause they fixed all the windows 7 fuckups. UI was a pain in the ass to get used to, but that's with any new OS
I'd disagree - OSX has been relatively stable across many many releases as far as GUI interaction goes. Linux, on the whole, has kept its GUI more stable than any 2 consecutive releases of windows ever has since XP, possibly with the exception of the 8.0->8.1 point release, which I personally avoided like the steaming pile of shit it was.
Assange has a stake in not being a Russian patsy. It would invalidate his entire life's work immediately.
Murray, for whatever reason, is attempting to support Assange. (perhaps his job security?)
What do the pentagon papers have to do with it? Or Snowden? Or Manning? (Might as well grab all the major leakers you might come up with)
Not a single one of those links provides any proof or even evidence that the DNC emails were an internal job. It's no better than heresay or the local grifter claiming he did something in order to get another job. Next you'll be quoting Alex Jones or bringing up Pizzagate.
As regards the trivial harm scenario, I see that you do find something offensive about shit hitting you. It may surprise you or open your mind (there's always a chance) but some of us don't consider your smoke/vape exhalations as a much better option and results in the same reaction - walking away.
If you're going to change one, why not thousands, or perhaps just those that you inserted?
what proof do you have? Still none. Thank you for your speculations. Now go home Alex.