As for GRUB2 and KMS, you're one of a tiny number of people complaining about such things; everyone else seems to do just fine with them.
Grub2 is nice and beautiful when it works. Which it does, most of the time. But when it breaks or you want to do something non standard, it requires a much much higher level of expertise than GRUB did. GRUB was edit a text file. GRUB2 is secret hidden handshake which seems to be illegal to write documentation for.
This kind of thing is becoming standard practice in modern software, unfortunately. Firefox used to export bookmarks in an HTML file, which even the most casual nerd could edit (maybe I only want part of it, or I want to add to it... whatever). Then it became a JSON file or something, which I guess makes it easier for developers to write tools for?
We keep getting software that makes life easier for the developers and harder for the end user. This is only a good thing if you are trying to get rid of end users.
So, based on the wording of the advisory, if I am using Office 2010 running on Windows 7, I am both affected and non-affected. How exactly does that work?
I'll head there right now to check out their reviews of Office 2013 and some medical billing software packages I am considering... can't wait to see what they have to say!
Different strokes for different folks. My teenage daughter, who had been using ubuntu 9 for a couple of years on a netbook, wanted nothing to do with Unity. Her older brother's reaction on first using Ubuntu 12 was different. "Microsoft should be embarassed", he said.
Lucky for you (and my daughter) Ubuntu can be installed with other window managers. If you don't like the Windows interface... too bad.
That seems like a good idea, but Microsoft must not want users to do this for some reason. Doing even a simple ipconfig/release (or renew) very frequently results in "adapter is not in a state to perform that command" or some other nonsense, yet performing the same through the GUI works just fine.
PowerShell works well for scripting these sorts of things, but for performing simple one off tasks, the complexity level is bit high.
But your assertion that the reaction to this case is something new is, in the context of this story, is just plain wrong. The name of the app presented contains a word which was part of a Supreme court ruling regulating indecency 35 years ago.
No, postcard is a an equally poor (and in some ways much worse) analogy. Letter in an unsealed envelope is closer. Neither of these non-virtual objects would routinely have copies made while being transmitted.
The Taliban, as evil as they may be, did not attack the US. They allowed Bin Laden to lead Al Qaeda from Afghanistan. The US gave them the choice of turning Bin Laden over, which they refused. Bin Laden's reasons for hating the US are well documented, but chiefly had to do with the American military setting foot in Saudi Arabia.
This may seem like hair splitting to some, but misremembering history is not a good recipe for sound decisions.
My 14 year old has been using rythmbox (running on ubuntu) to sync music to her ipod for a couple of years. Mostly it is not a problem to copy the music back off the ipod.
This does not change the fact that the multitude of byzantine nested folders that the ipod creates are clearly designed to obfuscate. (By comparison, my sandisk sansa clip can store all my oggs, mp3s, and flacs in a single folder. Subfolders are optional.)
From personal experience, there are large numbers of older HP laserjets that absolutely do not just work out of the box in Windows 7. (Specifically, LaserJet 1100, 1200, 1300, 2100, 2200, and probably a few others). The HP "solution" Universal Printer Driver was a nightmare, though the latest versions seem to work a bit better. OTOH, many Lexmark printers do not play well with Ubuntu. I had to manually edit part of the installer to get the driver for my Lexmark scanner working with Ubuntu 12.04. But at least I had that option.
Which doesn't work if you install Windows or whatever else afterwards. And yes, editing the damn Grub menu has been annoyingly complicated in Ubuntu at least since 9.10. On one system I have, the selection for Window has scrolled off the screen due to the number of kernel updates. Ok, maybe it's a good idea to keep one or two of those options in case of an emergency. But a whole screen worth? I do not consider this a pretty good solution.
Well, I'd naively like to hope that if there were only 80 people for whom this drug were the best treatment, that 80 patients would have it prescribed. And if there were 200 patients for whom it were best, you'd have 200 customers. And so on. If I discovered that my doctor was prescribing my medications based on marketing rather than what's best for me, I'd switch doctors.
The only purpose of advertising is to increase demand, which in the case of health care should be purely driven by need. What seems worse to me is that the most heavily advertised drugs are those which are still under patent, and therefore the pharmaceutical company is the sole supplier. Since supply is already controlled, I can only assume the drug companies intend the advertising to result in higher prices.
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As for GRUB2 and KMS, you're one of a tiny number of people complaining about such things; everyone else seems to do just fine with them.
Grub2 is nice and beautiful when it works. Which it does, most of the time. But when it breaks or you want to do something non standard, it requires a much much higher level of expertise than GRUB did. GRUB was edit a text file. GRUB2 is secret hidden handshake which seems to be illegal to write documentation for.
This kind of thing is becoming standard practice in modern software, unfortunately. Firefox used to export bookmarks in an HTML file, which even the most casual nerd could edit (maybe I only want part of it, or I want to add to it... whatever). Then it became a JSON file or something, which I guess makes it easier for developers to write tools for?
We keep getting software that makes life easier for the developers and harder for the end user. This is only a good thing if you are trying to get rid of end users.
Do they also provide catering?
And who will provide this valuable service to me when I want to protest against the Park Service?
So, based on the wording of the advisory, if I am using Office 2010 running on Windows 7, I am both affected and non-affected. How exactly does that work?
I'll head there right now to check out their reviews of Office 2013 and some medical billing software packages I am considering... can't wait to see what they have to say!
Software is not like movies, it is like cars. Stick with the well established analogies, people.
Seriously, software needs to be reviewed the way cars are... both for performance and functionality, and for aesthetics.
Different strokes for different folks. My teenage daughter, who had been using ubuntu 9 for a couple of years on a netbook, wanted nothing to do with Unity. Her older brother's reaction on first using Ubuntu 12 was different. "Microsoft should be embarassed", he said.
Lucky for you (and my daughter) Ubuntu can be installed with other window managers. If you don't like the Windows interface... too bad.
That seems like a good idea, but Microsoft must not want users to do this for some reason. Doing even a simple ipconfig /release (or renew) very frequently results in "adapter is not in a state to perform that command" or some other nonsense, yet performing the same through the GUI works just fine.
PowerShell works well for scripting these sorts of things, but for performing simple one off tasks, the complexity level is bit high.
But your assertion that the reaction to this case is something new is, in the context of this story, is just plain wrong. The name of the app presented contains a word which was part of a Supreme court ruling regulating indecency 35 years ago.
...and it is sad these days that political correctness stands in the way of anything funny being said anymore...
Unlike our parents generation, which told were told fuck jokes by their kindergarten teachers so they would be prepared for the real world.
Yes. For starters: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11166759
There is an obvious difference between commenting on an event that has already passed and wishing for, planning for, or incentivizing a future event.
Technically, yes, it is.
Um, when a government agency pays a fine, who do you think picks up the tab? And who are they paying the fine to?
I can see it now: "Due to an unexpected increase in revenue of 27,760,000 dollars, the NSA budget has been increased."
No, postcard is a an equally poor (and in some ways much worse) analogy. Letter in an unsealed envelope is closer. Neither of these non-virtual objects would routinely have copies made while being transmitted.
"Customers will act rationally"
I suppose there's a first time for everything.
Nevermind that... what was Eve's son's mother-in-law's name?
"gave them the exact same rights just under a different word" has never actually happened. Ever. So it's a little hard to verify your hypothesis.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, people are going to call it a duck. No matter how much you want them to call it a merganser.
The Taliban, as evil as they may be, did not attack the US. They allowed Bin Laden to lead Al Qaeda from Afghanistan. The US gave them the choice of turning Bin Laden over, which they refused. Bin Laden's reasons for hating the US are well documented, but chiefly had to do with the American military setting foot in Saudi Arabia.
This may seem like hair splitting to some, but misremembering history is not a good recipe for sound decisions.
My 14 year old has been using rythmbox (running on ubuntu) to sync music to her ipod for a couple of years. Mostly it is not a problem to copy the music back off the ipod.
This does not change the fact that the multitude of byzantine nested folders that the ipod creates are clearly designed to obfuscate. (By comparison, my sandisk sansa clip can store all my oggs, mp3s, and flacs in a single folder. Subfolders are optional.)
From personal experience, there are large numbers of older HP laserjets that absolutely do not just work out of the box in Windows 7. (Specifically, LaserJet 1100, 1200, 1300, 2100, 2200, and probably a few others). The HP "solution" Universal Printer Driver was a nightmare, though the latest versions seem to work a bit better.
OTOH, many Lexmark printers do not play well with Ubuntu. I had to manually edit part of the installer to get the driver for my Lexmark scanner working with Ubuntu 12.04. But at least I had that option.
Which doesn't work if you install Windows or whatever else afterwards. And yes, editing the damn Grub menu has been annoyingly complicated in Ubuntu at least since 9.10. On one system I have, the selection for Window has scrolled off the screen due to the number of kernel updates. Ok, maybe it's a good idea to keep one or two of those options in case of an emergency. But a whole screen worth? I do not consider this a pretty good solution.
Seriously? I heard of cholesterol as a health problem long before Lipitor existed, and before direct to consumer drug advertising was even a thing.
If you are relying on advertising for your information about the world, I don't like your prospects for health and well being in any case.
Well, I'd naively like to hope that if there were only 80 people for whom this drug were the best treatment, that 80 patients would have it prescribed. And if there were 200 patients for whom it were best, you'd have 200 customers. And so on. If I discovered that my doctor was prescribing my medications based on marketing rather than what's best for me, I'd switch doctors.
The only purpose of advertising is to increase demand, which in the case of health care should be purely driven by need. What seems worse to me is that the most heavily advertised drugs are those which are still under patent, and therefore the pharmaceutical company is the sole supplier. Since supply is already controlled, I can only assume the drug companies intend the advertising to result in higher prices.
That's crazy! Next thing you know, some nut will be asking the courts to grant 14th amendment rights to corporations!