and in fact seem to want to make their new country more like the hellholes they escaped from
So, how Mexican is Texas? Maybe those other places aren't much like Iraq either?
Many people are going to be shocked when Trump wins.
The Republican party are already undermining him and cutting off the money supply. It's unlikely that he will make it on his own fortune. If he does, then I agree with you that a lot of people are going to get a shock since they appear to see him as something other than the grasping casino owner who blew a vast amount of inherited money to get to where he is. He'll make Nixon, Ford, Johnson, Clinton and all the rest look like saints in comparison. He'll make Carter look like a political mastermind.
For the uninformed, I'd say look things up yourself instead of listening to other uninformed people like the above. If the European Commission had so much power as suggested then the UK would have been forced to have the Euro as a currency. Each country can tell the European Commission to piss off and go fuck themselves if there is a condition they do not like. What about Greece you say? Greece did exactly that with several offers until they got one they accepted.
It was Goldman Sachs telling Greece to invest in the USA and the 2008 stock crash that fucked them over big time. Everything else has just been kicking them while they are down.
I find it very funny that Americans like to make fun of the financial shortcomings of Greece. All they did wrong was to trust in the US economy.
Not really standard across L.A.or across Chicago either. It was just bad English with people who know each other getting by over time. Calling it "dialects" is just an insult to everyone and pointless since a translation dictionary is not going to work, instead just use a normal one and rip most of the pages out.
So a dialect can't exist if there are more than one?
For a dialect to exist it needs multiple speakers and to be distinct instead of just being a cut down version of something else. Different bits broken in English does not make it different "dialects".
The PR spin was about pretending some kids who had communication problems were equivalent to pidgin being used as a trade language in places where English is a second language. It's bullshit to try to justify spending less on education. If it was real and these were real "dialects" then it would be far more expensive to educate them in that instead of English, but the reality was a fig leaf to hide behind and pretend it was not worth teaching those kids English and just leaving them on the scrapheap to fend for themselves.
There were plenty of people on the Republican side that opposed it, which is why it was dropped, so I really do not get why you are trying to gold plate a policy that was never implemented.
The Amazon one doesn't come close to what the poster above was asking for especially since they said nothing about contrast. The pocketbook one on the other hand has a lot going for it. The only reason I recommended the Boox over it is because I've never used the pocketbook.
That one too if you can get it. The newer 9.7 inch Onyx Boox with Android does have less battery life than the previous linux model but the hardware is also different (eg. faster processor and it has bluetooth etc). Battery life not such a massive deal when the one with less life can still last a few days between charges - eg. reading ten hours plus per day over a wet long weekend without needing a charge. Wifi chews through battery so there is room for improvement if the device is being used for web browsing, although I've noticed with reading long pages (eg. web fiction) it loads the page and then tends to disconnect the wifi to save power if you have been on the same page for a few minutes.
Ebonics isn't about teaching only a dumbed down English
With respect that is exactly what it was as a cynical measure to cut costs by not spending much money on people who had little or no impact on the political process.
It was recognizing that there are some language forks that are different enough that they may qualify as a dialect
That was the PR "spin" after the fact and to be frank unadulterated bullshit. A lot of effort was put into spreading the bullshit, so like the "night pilots eat lots of carrots" spin to disguise the secret of radar it makes sense that some of the bullshit stuck.
The "dialect" thing reminds me of a foreign journalist that went to South Central L.A. and had trouble with the broken English Hispanic people there were using. "No problem", he thought, "I speak Spanish like a native so I'll just use that". He couldn't understand their broken Spanish either.
It's not a standard pidgin English it's our own English without a workable level of education.
Onyx Boox does all that. Very nice, but you need a love it a lot to pay the price it comes at. It runs the Amazon and Kobo android app as well as it's native readers (including FBreader) for PDF, ePub etc. More storage is a matter of putting in a microsd card of whatever size you want.
The Onyx Boox is a nice eink tablet with buttons if you are prepared to carry something as big as a iPad around. They are not cheap, especially the large ones, but the useful life is likely to be quite a few years.
It's overkill unless you want to do something like display PDF files in which case some are so badly formatted that you need that sort of memory to cache stuff and render them early so it's quick enough with page turns that you don't take a coffee break between each page. That's a factor with the ten inch readers. With this little one it's text to speech that is apparently the memory hog.
The Onyx Boox and a few others are very open but don't have the integration with a "store". None of them are as cheap as the ones that are associated with a "store" so the Kobo is a midpoint with "enough control" for the user. The ones where you buy a device outright and do what you like without any attempt to tie you into ongoing costs are very expensive, but they exist. The eink patent holders really screwed over the small players.
That on is good, I'd also recommend the pocket Kobo but it's not on sale new anymore, which is a pity since it is very compact and very cheap. Real linux as mentioned and Kobos can even boot Debian if you don't like the linux that comes with it. Some hang glider folks even hacked the pocket Kobo to use as a display for various things they wanted to know while in the air.
The downside of the pocket Kobo is that its Micro SD slot is internal (not that it's hard to get the back off) and has the OS on it instead of being pure storage. That can be an advantage when hacking it since you can have the modified system on a different Micro SD card and just swap them over instead of changing the base system at all.
With an unmodified Kobo side loading books is just as easy as copying stuff to a USB drive. Just dump them on there and after it spends a few seconds adding them to the database they show up in the main interface as recent files.
Well, their heart's in the right place, but doing this now is... unfathomably stupid
All they are doing is falling for the hype. With all the people here shouting about a singularity and all the people even calling something like "Tay" an A.I. I can't really blame them.
It's only a draft. Stupid shit gets written all the time in any large org which is why drafts are circulated in the first place instead of final copies written in isolated silos.
I think so too but there are plenty of people on this site alone that argue that functional A.I. is just about to happen. Mechanical Turk stunts like "Tay" being called A.I. confuses the issue too and is likely to convince some that it's already here in a limited way and about to take off any day soon.
It's only a draft, so it's not a lot of people taking this stuff seriously, but those people are only guilty of believing what a lot of people on this site are saying and are doing something about it.
Humanoid robots are likely always going to be a novelty
I used to think that but there is a lot of stuff built for the human form factor so instead of a redesign from scratch it may make sense to have something human sized or shaped to work with it. Even "Robbie the Robot" is humanoid compared with a welding robot. If you want something to get through manholes or similar hatches you've got size limits based on the size of human beings.
It appears that it's a draft plan to cover a corner case and it ended up looking silly. See also the draft plans the Pentagon has for invading the UK. If you try to have plans for everything, such in this case A.I. advancing at a massive rate, then some of those plans are going to look more than a little crazy.
Maybe look at this another way - all of those "singularity" types and those ones that think human scale artificial intelligence is just around the corner should be flattered that somebody is taken them seriously.
It's not racist. Education cuts from Reagan onwards meant Ebonics for everyone in some public systems regardless of race, creed or color:) A suggestion to save money by teaching only a quick and nasty pidgin English was the racist bit. Referring to that proposal is not racist, it's history.
Being in there at all speaks volumes that they have no idea what people are using *nix for. They are windows weenies with a single user non-networked mindset that are trying to reshape other stuff into that image.
It's several things. It's even happened with a USB wireless mouse dongle, ZFS and a couple of other things a few years back that have hopefully been fixed in the meantime.
The Daniel Stone "truth about Wayland" video of him presenting his unfinished powerpoint presentation is a good example of that attitude. Want to use software more than a couple of years old or use something other than a tablet? If you want that then to him you are an irrelevant dinosaur that should be dead already. WTF is wrong with these kids?
On the Gnome 3 front, I'll agree that it's probably easier to just go with MATE desktop if you miss Gnome 2 that much. I'm sympathetic, but the fork has been pretty viable, so it's not like there's no recourse
It's still not quite to the point where people who have had gnome2 on their workstations for a decade are not going to be annoyed by it. Centos5 still gets updates and still has gnome2.
systemd has caused some headaches
I've had a few of them, and fucking insane shit like suggestions to kill all background processes when a user logs off indicate that there are many more to come thanks to the systemd team wanting to change *nix into something completely different and stop all old software from working. I still use systemd on a few desktop machines but have had to roll some systems back to an earlier version due to weird shit happening with init. To me an init system that hangs on startup overnight just because it cannot recognize a USB wireless mouse dongle has some serious design flaws. That "fast parallel init" that Lennert promised but did not deliver as described should not block on a single hardware item plugged into USB.
As for syntax, try typing "systemctl isolate multi-user.target" in a hurry instead of "telinit 3". WTF is wrong with Lennart and why is his manager too much of a wimp to let him get away with stupid shit?
A very good thing that "dnf" does (systemd developers take special note) is that it will accept the syntax of the thing that it is replacing. Typing "yum upgrade" on a new Fedora system will pass the task off to "dnf" and it will do the job for you as if "yum" was still on the system.
As for systemd, it only bothers me at two times - startups and shutdowns. Sometimes it hangs and won't get the job done which makes it like MS Windows years back when the only choice at times was to go for the reset button or power button. That's life on the bleeding edge these days I suppose but someone should teach Lennart P. not to unleash his shit until it has reached at least beta quality and can no longer be described as shit.
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So, how Mexican is Texas?
Maybe those other places aren't much like Iraq either?
The Republican party are already undermining him and cutting off the money supply. It's unlikely that he will make it on his own fortune. If he does, then I agree with you that a lot of people are going to get a shock since they appear to see him as something other than the grasping casino owner who blew a vast amount of inherited money to get to where he is. He'll make Nixon, Ford, Johnson, Clinton and all the rest look like saints in comparison. He'll make Carter look like a political mastermind.
For the uninformed, I'd say look things up yourself instead of listening to other uninformed people like the above.
If the European Commission had so much power as suggested then the UK would have been forced to have the Euro as a currency.
Each country can tell the European Commission to piss off and go fuck themselves if there is a condition they do not like. What about Greece you say? Greece did exactly that with several offers until they got one they accepted.
It was Goldman Sachs telling Greece to invest in the USA and the 2008 stock crash that fucked them over big time. Everything else has just been kicking them while they are down.
I find it very funny that Americans like to make fun of the financial shortcomings of Greece. All they did wrong was to trust in the US economy.
Not really standard across L.A.or across Chicago either. It was just bad English with people who know each other getting by over time. Calling it "dialects" is just an insult to everyone and pointless since a translation dictionary is not going to work, instead just use a normal one and rip most of the pages out.
For a dialect to exist it needs multiple speakers and to be distinct instead of just being a cut down version of something else. Different bits broken in English does not make it different "dialects".
The PR spin was about pretending some kids who had communication problems were equivalent to pidgin being used as a trade language in places where English is a second language. It's bullshit to try to justify spending less on education. If it was real and these were real "dialects" then it would be far more expensive to educate them in that instead of English, but the reality was a fig leaf to hide behind and pretend it was not worth teaching those kids English and just leaving them on the scrapheap to fend for themselves.
There were plenty of people on the Republican side that opposed it, which is why it was dropped, so I really do not get why you are trying to gold plate a policy that was never implemented.
The Amazon one doesn't come close to what the poster above was asking for especially since they said nothing about contrast.
The pocketbook one on the other hand has a lot going for it. The only reason I recommended the Boox over it is because I've never used the pocketbook.
That one too if you can get it. The newer 9.7 inch Onyx Boox with Android does have less battery life than the previous linux model but the hardware is also different (eg. faster processor and it has bluetooth etc). Battery life not such a massive deal when the one with less life can still last a few days between charges - eg. reading ten hours plus per day over a wet long weekend without needing a charge. Wifi chews through battery so there is room for improvement if the device is being used for web browsing, although I've noticed with reading long pages (eg. web fiction) it loads the page and then tends to disconnect the wifi to save power if you have been on the same page for a few minutes.
With respect that is exactly what it was as a cynical measure to cut costs by not spending much money on people who had little or no impact on the political process.
That was the PR "spin" after the fact and to be frank unadulterated bullshit. A lot of effort was put into spreading the bullshit, so like the "night pilots eat lots of carrots" spin to disguise the secret of radar it makes sense that some of the bullshit stuck.
The "dialect" thing reminds me of a foreign journalist that went to South Central L.A. and had trouble with the broken English Hispanic people there were using. "No problem", he thought, "I speak Spanish like a native so I'll just use that". He couldn't understand their broken Spanish either.
It's not a standard pidgin English it's our own English without a workable level of education.
Which is often nowhere near enough so other money comes in from elsewhere or used to.
Onyx Boox does all that. Very nice, but you need a love it a lot to pay the price it comes at. It runs the Amazon and Kobo android app as well as it's native readers (including FBreader) for PDF, ePub etc. More storage is a matter of putting in a microsd card of whatever size you want.
The Onyx Boox is a nice eink tablet with buttons if you are prepared to carry something as big as a iPad around. They are not cheap, especially the large ones, but the useful life is likely to be quite a few years.
It's overkill unless you want to do something like display PDF files in which case some are so badly formatted that you need that sort of memory to cache stuff and render them early so it's quick enough with page turns that you don't take a coffee break between each page. That's a factor with the ten inch readers. With this little one it's text to speech that is apparently the memory hog.
The Onyx Boox and a few others are very open but don't have the integration with a "store". None of them are as cheap as the ones that are associated with a "store" so the Kobo is a midpoint with "enough control" for the user. The ones where you buy a device outright and do what you like without any attempt to tie you into ongoing costs are very expensive, but they exist. The eink patent holders really screwed over the small players.
That on is good, I'd also recommend the pocket Kobo but it's not on sale new anymore, which is a pity since it is very compact and very cheap.
Real linux as mentioned and Kobos can even boot Debian if you don't like the linux that comes with it. Some hang glider folks even hacked the pocket Kobo to use as a display for various things they wanted to know while in the air.
The downside of the pocket Kobo is that its Micro SD slot is internal (not that it's hard to get the back off) and has the OS on it instead of being pure storage. That can be an advantage when hacking it since you can have the modified system on a different Micro SD card and just swap them over instead of changing the base system at all.
With an unmodified Kobo side loading books is just as easy as copying stuff to a USB drive. Just dump them on there and after it spends a few seconds adding them to the database they show up in the main interface as recent files.
All they are doing is falling for the hype.
With all the people here shouting about a singularity and all the people even calling something like "Tay" an A.I. I can't really blame them.
It's only a draft. Stupid shit gets written all the time in any large org which is why drafts are circulated in the first place instead of final copies written in isolated silos.
I think so too but there are plenty of people on this site alone that argue that functional A.I. is just about to happen.
Mechanical Turk stunts like "Tay" being called A.I. confuses the issue too and is likely to convince some that it's already here in a limited way and about to take off any day soon.
It's only a draft, so it's not a lot of people taking this stuff seriously, but those people are only guilty of believing what a lot of people on this site are saying and are doing something about it.
I used to think that but there is a lot of stuff built for the human form factor so instead of a redesign from scratch it may make sense to have something human sized or shaped to work with it. Even "Robbie the Robot" is humanoid compared with a welding robot.
If you want something to get through manholes or similar hatches you've got size limits based on the size of human beings.
It appears that it's a draft plan to cover a corner case and it ended up looking silly.
See also the draft plans the Pentagon has for invading the UK.
If you try to have plans for everything, such in this case A.I. advancing at a massive rate, then some of those plans are going to look more than a little crazy.
Maybe look at this another way - all of those "singularity" types and those ones that think human scale artificial intelligence is just around the corner should be flattered that somebody is taken them seriously.
It's not racist. Education cuts from Reagan onwards meant Ebonics for everyone in some public systems regardless of race, creed or color :)
A suggestion to save money by teaching only a quick and nasty pidgin English was the racist bit. Referring to that proposal is not racist, it's history.
Being in there at all speaks volumes that they have no idea what people are using *nix for.
They are windows weenies with a single user non-networked mindset that are trying to reshape other stuff into that image.
It's several things. It's even happened with a USB wireless mouse dongle, ZFS and a couple of other things a few years back that have hopefully been fixed in the meantime.
The Daniel Stone "truth about Wayland" video of him presenting his unfinished powerpoint presentation is a good example of that attitude. Want to use software more than a couple of years old or use something other than a tablet? If you want that then to him you are an irrelevant dinosaur that should be dead already. WTF is wrong with these kids?
I don't think I have laughed so much for years.
It's still not quite to the point where people who have had gnome2 on their workstations for a decade are not going to be annoyed by it. Centos5 still gets updates and still has gnome2.
I've had a few of them, and fucking insane shit like suggestions to kill all background processes when a user logs off indicate that there are many more to come thanks to the systemd team wanting to change *nix into something completely different and stop all old software from working. I still use systemd on a few desktop machines but have had to roll some systems back to an earlier version due to weird shit happening with init.
To me an init system that hangs on startup overnight just because it cannot recognize a USB wireless mouse dongle has some serious design flaws. That "fast parallel init" that Lennert promised but did not deliver as described should not block on a single hardware item plugged into USB.
As for syntax, try typing "systemctl isolate multi-user.target" in a hurry instead of "telinit 3". WTF is wrong with Lennart and why is his manager too much of a wimp to let him get away with stupid shit?
A very good thing that "dnf" does (systemd developers take special note) is that it will accept the syntax of the thing that it is replacing. Typing "yum upgrade" on a new Fedora system will pass the task off to "dnf" and it will do the job for you as if "yum" was still on the system.
As for systemd, it only bothers me at two times - startups and shutdowns. Sometimes it hangs and won't get the job done which makes it like MS Windows years back when the only choice at times was to go for the reset button or power button. That's life on the bleeding edge these days I suppose but someone should teach Lennart P. not to unleash his shit until it has reached at least beta quality and can no longer be described as shit.