Yep. Stuff is meant to get better over time. It does mostly with Linux stuff if you look at good WM's. Libreoffice is pretty nippy too. We forget that the OS is a tool to do a job, it should be working for us, not the other way around. We also forget that MS s a company which likes money. They employ the cheapest to give the share holders ROI. You don't get features quickly without cost. At least with GNU there's some chance of code getting vetted. When tickets need to be resolved quickly at MS I doubt there's any consideration towards quality of code.
Beavers are terrible for the environment too then. It's dog eat dog in the green world. Although there are pros and cons, dams don't produce greenhouse gasses.
For example, if you subscribe to Xfinity Internet at home, your "legitimate email service" has an address ending in @comcast.net.
Sadly ISPs don't let you take your email address when you switch provider, hence anyone who needs to remain in contact with people will have to use something independent, such as outlook or gmail. They could set their own up at cost of course and hope they don't forget to renew their own domain. The easiest and most natural solution is to use a free provider who has been in the business for decades.
That simply isn't the case. Countless numbers use gmail and outlook for their primary email as they use the biggest providers as they are unable to set their own up. This type of person would only add to the spam problem as they would be unlikely to maintain their private SMTP service.
The majority of malware and spam come from botnet controlled accounts on valid domains. Most of the 419 spam originates at gmail. Not because gmail is worst, but it's because it's a trusted source of mail.
The reason I say this is not going to work is that you will get spam on any popular communication mechanism. Facebook gets quite a bit now, that's not email, and they control both the sender and the receiver, the spam could be zapped before you know about it, you're just seeing that which got through the filters from a sender that has not been reported.
Really? I blame the filmmakers for neglecting the fact they need to take into account that a portion will be pirated. Was the movie just rotten and did not make any sales? Was it a hit at the cinema and a flop on DVD, or were the two release events too close for people to bother watching in both formats?
Sounds to me like an excuse to release crap and blame someone else and still make a profit.
I wonder about the desktops and phones being subject to swap reads. At some level the plain text will be in memory, forcing the machine to swap (does it use hugepages?) would then lead to possibility of something with privilege reading swapped data. Firefox wouldn't be a memory hog now would it?
I can confirm this on both points. My former employer maintains a blacklist and a very dark grey list. I am on the latter, which means an executive VP or high can still auth my hire (very unlikely), while on the former list you are *never* working there again, all the way to the point of if a company you work for gets bought by them, you're fired on the spot. I have witnessed said terminations.
There is also a clear back channel communication as it is possible to as a referrals rehire status from some former employers, if they say anything but "yes" or "we don't release that information" then it's a negative and you will not be hired. My former employer may or may not release said information depending on who and how you ask.
Wouldn't that just lead to some enterprising company hiring "blacklisted" candidates at reduced salaries? Knowing a candidate will not get hired at companies X Y and Z, then company A can make an offer for 75% of the actual salary.
I think you're right, it's a market after all. Worst case, the employee will just wait it out a little longer and keep looking, for perhaps four months until someone really wants the skills he has and offers the standard market rate.
I doubt the large outsourcing firms would want to keep someone on after they give three months of notice. It would be far too embarrassing for them to have you accidentally make a "mistake" during that period (if you don't want to be there, the chance of you not paying attention to what you're doing goes up). Better to let them leave without (accidentally) destroying the contract.
So now we know how Windows 10 code was written. It just took a bunch of previously written chunks of kernel and applied a new UI based on a "give me something we already had" command.
Important things wont get done if you get reminded all the time to go back and fix all the perfect world problems that you promised yourself you'd do. Unfortunately life gets in the way and the important things quickly take priority. Being reminded to go and correct the whitespace in a random header file isn't going to help anyone.
I don't like facebook at the moment, I think it's too focused on a novelty market, which isn't my cup of tea, sadly this is what happens when something grows too big. Too many smilies for my liking. When it was plain text I was ok with it. Anyway, that's just my disagreements.
Mark built the company. What gives anyone the right to put someone else in his place? If you want to be in the facebook club and buy shares, then play by the rules of the club when you joined, don't go crying because you've not seen the big ROI that you expected, pays your monies, takes your chances. Mark's club.
As a heavy linux user, I will chop between two UI's, for the desktop where there is more space I use ratpoison, it allows for fast switching between programs and can shift the desktop around accurately and consistently. For the systems with smaller displays that I have around netbook size I use evilwm.
Both are fast and easy to control. They're both very stable and do not take long to learn. Both give back nearly 100% of the screen real estate and have next to no clutter.
Isn't this just an advertising post that somehow found its way into the 'green' section of slashdot?
There is a definite conflict of interest here, the company is in business to make money, therefore they will suggest only good things about the current product along with reasons why you should stop using the older and put hand in pocket for newer. If MS asked for one payment only, and that allowed you free choice of the OS and future upgrades, sure that would be reasonable. Essentially you can only use MS Windows to browse the web, for everything else you need to buy additional products, and this is what makes the OS a bad choice. It's a bit like having to buy something to enable you to buy a train ticket. I don't like it.
but it seemed to work for the 500 odd people we have on the floor.
500 people must require a fair bit of space, how does it work for the one closest and furthest away? Seems like it wouldn't work well when you wander over to a neighbouring colleague.
... they could drop the terrible windows build of itunes and replace it with a linux build? Wouldn't be much work to port from osx and would show the market how dominant they really are.
I couldn't agree more, but someone has found a way to highlight how ludicrous the patent process is when it appears to be used to block life preserving tools.
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Yep. Stuff is meant to get better over time. It does mostly with Linux stuff if you look at good WM's. Libreoffice is pretty nippy too. We forget that the OS is a tool to do a job, it should be working for us, not the other way around. We also forget that MS s a company which likes money. They employ the cheapest to give the share holders ROI. You don't get features quickly without cost. At least with GNU there's some chance of code getting vetted. When tickets need to be resolved quickly at MS I doubt there's any consideration towards quality of code.
Beavers are terrible for the environment too then. It's dog eat dog in the green world. Although there are pros and cons, dams don't produce greenhouse gasses.
Is this a win for open source or a loss?
Or is it embrace and extend?
I'm not sure what extension they're adding.
Pretty confused right now as it's wrong on so many levels.
It's a "cancer" in your pocket f'sure.
For example, if you subscribe to Xfinity Internet at home, your "legitimate email service" has an address ending in @comcast.net.
Sadly ISPs don't let you take your email address when you switch provider, hence anyone who needs to remain in contact with people will have to use something independent, such as outlook or gmail. They could set their own up at cost of course and hope they don't forget to renew their own domain. The easiest and most natural solution is to use a free provider who has been in the business for decades.
That simply isn't the case. Countless numbers use gmail and outlook for their primary email as they use the biggest providers as they are unable to set their own up. This type of person would only add to the spam problem as they would be unlikely to maintain their private SMTP service.
The majority of malware and spam come from botnet controlled accounts on valid domains. Most of the 419 spam originates at gmail. Not because gmail is worst, but it's because it's a trusted source of mail.
The reason I say this is not going to work is that you will get spam on any popular communication mechanism. Facebook gets quite a bit now, that's not email, and they control both the sender and the receiver, the spam could be zapped before you know about it, you're just seeing that which got through the filters from a sender that has not been reported.
Last time I looked OpenBSD was not a great platform to play host to a vm.
Yahoo had directory, never "search".
Really? I blame the filmmakers for neglecting the fact they need to take into account that a portion will be pirated. Was the movie just rotten and did not make any sales? Was it a hit at the cinema and a flop on DVD, or were the two release events too close for people to bother watching in both formats?
Sounds to me like an excuse to release crap and blame someone else and still make a profit.
I wonder about the desktops and phones being subject to swap reads. At some level the plain text will be in memory, forcing the machine to swap (does it use hugepages?) would then lead to possibility of something with privilege reading swapped data. Firefox wouldn't be a memory hog now would it?
I can confirm this on both points.
My former employer maintains a blacklist and a very dark grey list. I am on the latter, which means an executive VP or high can still auth my hire (very unlikely), while on the former list you are *never* working there again, all the way to the point of if a company you work for gets bought by them, you're fired on the spot.
I have witnessed said terminations.
There is also a clear back channel communication as it is possible to as a referrals rehire status from some former employers, if they say anything but "yes" or "we don't release that information" then it's a negative and you will not be hired. My former employer may or may not release said information depending on who and how you ask.
Isn't this getting rather close to a cartel?
Wouldn't that just lead to some enterprising company hiring "blacklisted" candidates at reduced salaries? Knowing a candidate will not get hired at companies X Y and Z, then company A can make an offer for 75% of the actual salary.
I think you're right, it's a market after all. Worst case, the employee will just wait it out a little longer and keep looking, for perhaps four months until someone really wants the skills he has and offers the standard market rate.
I doubt the large outsourcing firms would want to keep someone on after they give three months of notice. It would be far too embarrassing for them to have you accidentally make a "mistake" during that period (if you don't want to be there, the chance of you not paying attention to what you're doing goes up). Better to let them leave without (accidentally) destroying the contract.
So now we know how Windows 10 code was written. It just took a bunch of previously written chunks of kernel and applied a new UI based on a "give me something we already had" command.
Important things wont get done if you get reminded all the time to go back and fix all the perfect world problems that you promised yourself you'd do. Unfortunately life gets in the way and the important things quickly take priority. Being reminded to go and correct the whitespace in a random header file isn't going to help anyone.
I don't like facebook at the moment, I think it's too focused on a novelty market, which isn't my cup of tea, sadly this is what happens when something grows too big. Too many smilies for my liking. When it was plain text I was ok with it. Anyway, that's just my disagreements.
Mark built the company. What gives anyone the right to put someone else in his place? If you want to be in the facebook club and buy shares, then play by the rules of the club when you joined, don't go crying because you've not seen the big ROI that you expected, pays your monies, takes your chances. Mark's club.
This.
The message needs to use words that the reader will react to. If 'botnet' wasn't used, would this even had made news?
As a heavy linux user, I will chop between two UI's, for the desktop where there is more space I use ratpoison, it allows for fast switching between programs and can shift the desktop around accurately and consistently. For the systems with smaller displays that I have around netbook size I use evilwm.
Both are fast and easy to control. They're both very stable and do not take long to learn. Both give back nearly 100% of the screen real estate and have next to no clutter.
Isn't this just an advertising post that somehow found its way into the 'green' section of slashdot?
There is a definite conflict of interest here, the company is in business to make money, therefore they will suggest only good things about the current product along with reasons why you should stop using the older and put hand in pocket for newer. If MS asked for one payment only, and that allowed you free choice of the OS and future upgrades, sure that would be reasonable. Essentially you can only use MS Windows to browse the web, for everything else you need to buy additional products, and this is what makes the OS a bad choice. It's a bit like having to buy something to enable you to buy a train ticket. I don't like it.
whereas mod and stm files played just fine on 486 33mhz
but it seemed to work for the 500 odd people we have on the floor.
500 people must require a fair bit of space, how does it work for the one closest and furthest away? Seems like it wouldn't work well when you wander over to a neighbouring colleague.
BTLE is quite low power. Oh, I see what you're saying, it's MS code so the driver will drain the battery due to rubbish out-the-door binaries.
... they could drop the terrible windows build of itunes and replace it with a linux build? Wouldn't be much work to port from osx and would show the market how dominant they really are.
I couldn't agree more, but someone has found a way to highlight how ludicrous the patent process is when it appears to be used to block life preserving tools.
I'd funny that if I had the points.