>They did a similar thing for Apple. I don't know why BestBuy changing its floor plan is newsworthy.
I think it's newsworthy because it's taken them so long to understand this concept.
Before the BB "Apple store within a store," Apple had its own "stores" in outlets like CompUSA and such. We're talking at least 15-18 years of this sort of thing that Apple has been doing (as far as I can remember going into CompUSA anyway), and it's just *now* that Microsoft is doing it.
Late to the game/dollar short/whatever aphorism you want to put here. Just some more "me too" stuff from the Land of Ballmer.
>They'll all just end up copying Windows eventually anyway.
You mean like how Microsoft lifted features/concepts from KDE and put them in Vista/7?
>Windows 8 vs KDE and Gnome
I'm not sure about gnome these days, but the KDE guys have a fully fleshed out touch centered interface (KDE Plasma Active), but they keep it entirely separated from the base KDE install, because unlike Microsoft, they reacognize that desktops and tablets are used differently.
This meme that Linux desktop devs blindly follow Microsoft and Apple needs to die. Because while it has a grain of truth that came from last century, it's completely outdated.
Ever since KDE stopped sucking around 4.2.6, I've gone back to KDE after hiding out in Gnome 2.x
It has the least amount of derp out of all the desktop environments. The KDE devs flirted with the "hey, let's remove features" fad, but actually came to their senses a lot quicker than the Gnome guys when they started having to don Nomex underwear.
KDE 4.10.x is spectacular. It's chock full of features, and not that much bigger in footprint than XFCE.
As for server stuff, who the heck puts a desktop on a server?
All this brouhaha about the government spying on metadata has been known by some of us for quite a while. This was known as "Total Information Awareness" a decade ago and Echelon before that (which didn't quite make the news because Echelon was *really* about looking at international traffic). People got all up in arms at the mere prospect of it and it went away in thle news, but it never really went away. Instead it got more funding. Companies like Facebook et alia claiming they don't participate are, quite frankly, lying.
And to hear the defense of it that "we're not looking at the content" as if metadata isn't as important as content, consider that Facebook's and all other social media's/money/ is made on metadata - who your friends are, what you like, etc. Without metadata, facebook, skype, etc, wouldn't be profitable.
I got disgusted with this shit in 2002, but talking about it back then just made people's eyes glaze over, at best (or thought you were a loonie conspiracist more likely) so I didn't talk much about it at all. And this is all I'm gonna say on this subject, because y'all are probably already tired of hearing of it on the news.
Just be aware that what you post here, and in other places, isn't private. It never was. Email is a postcard unless you encrypt (I wrote about this before).
Anyway, that's that.
-- BMO
(I wrote this elsewhere, but I think it sums up my thoughts well enough to re-use here)
The law doesn't matter when the software is crippled and simply won't work if you give it away/sell it. Especially since every software license out there, except for a very small slice of the pie, tells you that you don't own what you "bought."
I would think that a real survivalist would invest in some field guides and other books for when the shit really hits the fan, so they say, there isn't going to be power anyway. I mean, come on, a book on blacksmithing and one on farming the old fashioned way would be far better.
>bringing a computer with you camping.
Isn't the point of camping about trying to get away from that stuff? It is for me...
1. Fox went to court in Florida to defend the "right" to lie as news. They are the only news network to do so in the history of reporting. This is significant.
2. Shepard Smith (the only redeeming quality of Fox) is not enough to balance the derp.
This is late but.../usr/local/ and/opt/ can sit in their own partitions. I typically have it set up this way, especially when I have custom-compiled stuff sitting in/usr/local./etc/ can't be in its own partition, because it needs to be read on boot. At least that's my experience. If you have any idea on how to put/etc/ in its own partition and still have a bootable system, I'd sure like to know (really).
At that point, blowing away the system and sticking something new in there would be really painless.
I have no idea what you're talking about since gmail sorts through hundreds of spam messages for me per day and the false-positives are so few and far between. It's so many because I forward the mail from an account that I've had for almost 20 years now, that attracts an unfortunate amount of spam.
That said, you don't like the way it's organized. Fine. What's wrong with imap?
Google supports imap, ya know. Use your own MUA instead of the web interface. I'm currently reading my gmail account with M2, Opera's mailer.
Well, some people have custom stuff in/etc/ and whatnot, so an in-place upgrade is a lot more convenient.
That said, even on Windows, one should have the system/software and user partitions separated, if only for making a nuke-and-pave more painless. The whole business of having everything in C: is just dumb.
1. Look at the user ID. It's so new it's still wet behind the ears. 2. Aha, let's look at their postings. Only postings in this thread - no other history. 3. So let's check Loba Art's friends...
Loba Art (2933853) is all alone in the world.
I would agree with your assessment. Loba Art is a PETA sock.
It's too bad you posted as AC. Your post should have more visibility because you're right. The number of posts pointing out the Pareto Principle, as if nobody here has ever heard of it, is maddening.
To follow up, what's with all the GPL bashing calling it socialistic and that companies are afraid if one guy contributes a few lines of gpl code supposedly making the whole project gpl? (hint, it doesn't, and the reverse doesn't work that way either).
What the fuck, Slashdot? It seems that if Linus Torvalds came out with his first kernel today and got a story posted on slashdot, all he'd get would be flames.
Foot ulcers in diabetics and bed sores in the elderly are really hard to deal with. Even when blood sugar is under control, these things take a long time to heal. You don't ever want one to happen to you.
Slapping a specially treated bandage on a wound can *genetically* encourage healing? This is tantamount to finding out that you can cure scurvy with vitamin C to the affected people.
This is SAPS getting back at people who rat them out. Covering it up with a tweet blaming Anonymous.
As long as you have a frightening scapegoat like Anonymous, you can do all sorts of things and get away with it. In the past, it was yellow peril, commies, etc.
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>They did a similar thing for Apple. I don't know why BestBuy changing its floor plan is newsworthy.
I think it's newsworthy because it's taken them so long to understand this concept.
Before the BB "Apple store within a store," Apple had its own "stores" in outlets like CompUSA and such. We're talking at least 15-18 years of this sort of thing that Apple has been doing (as far as I can remember going into CompUSA anyway), and it's just *now* that Microsoft is doing it.
Late to the game/dollar short/whatever aphorism you want to put here. Just some more "me too" stuff from the Land of Ballmer.
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BMO
>With gold-plated connectors and oxygenated wiring,
And conductors rubbed between the breasts of virgins.
Too bad the virgins look like me
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BMO
>They'll all just end up copying Windows eventually anyway.
You mean like how Microsoft lifted features/concepts from KDE and put them in Vista/7?
>Windows 8 vs KDE and Gnome
I'm not sure about gnome these days, but the KDE guys have a fully fleshed out touch centered interface (KDE Plasma Active), but they keep it entirely separated from the base KDE install, because unlike Microsoft, they reacognize that desktops and tablets are used differently.
This meme that Linux desktop devs blindly follow Microsoft and Apple needs to die. Because while it has a grain of truth that came from last century, it's completely outdated.
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BMO
Ever since KDE stopped sucking around 4.2.6, I've gone back to KDE after hiding out in Gnome 2.x
It has the least amount of derp out of all the desktop environments. The KDE devs flirted with the "hey, let's remove features" fad, but actually came to their senses a lot quicker than the Gnome guys when they started having to don Nomex underwear.
KDE 4.10.x is spectacular. It's chock full of features, and not that much bigger in footprint than XFCE.
As for server stuff, who the heck puts a desktop on a server?
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BMO
I do it to piss you off. Seriously.
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BMO
...that pen traces required a warrant.
All this brouhaha about the government spying on metadata has been known by some of us for quite a while. This was known as "Total Information Awareness" a decade ago and Echelon before that (which didn't quite make the news because Echelon was *really* about looking at international traffic). People got all up in arms at the mere prospect of it and it went away in thle news, but it never really went away. Instead it got more funding. Companies like Facebook et alia claiming they don't participate are, quite frankly, lying.
And to hear the defense of it that "we're not looking at the content" as if metadata isn't as important as content, consider that Facebook's and all other social media's /money/ is made on metadata - who your friends are, what you like, etc. Without metadata, facebook, skype, etc, wouldn't be profitable.
I got disgusted with this shit in 2002, but talking about it back then just made people's eyes glaze over, at best (or thought you were a loonie conspiracist more likely) so I didn't talk much about it at all. And this is all I'm gonna say on this subject, because y'all are probably already tired of hearing of it on the news.
Just be aware that what you post here, and in other places, isn't private. It never was. Email is a postcard unless you encrypt (I wrote about this before).
Anyway, that's that.
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BMO
(I wrote this elsewhere, but I think it sums up my thoughts well enough to re-use here)
>Does this article suggest that all other messaging that are operational in Saudi Arabia are being monitored?
Of course all other messaging is being monitored.
They're just following the US's lead.
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BMO
The law doesn't matter when the software is crippled and simply won't work if you give it away/sell it. Especially since every software license out there, except for a very small slice of the pie, tells you that you don't own what you "bought."
Modded insightful? Nope.
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BMO
"When Xbox One is on and you're simply having a conversation in your living room, your conversation is not being recorded or uploaded."
Considering the stories about the NSA datamining in both the telecom and computing services industries, I have two words to say:
"Likely story."
It will be turned on to record, to find "terrorists."
This gets a big "nope."
http://www.humorgas.com/image/1359731250348625995.JPG
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>Depending on my goals
Goals? Camping? What?
> I might bring lots of tech or none at all. I think you've only done one kind of camping.
Yes, I go to the woods in the same manner as Thoreau.
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BMO
I would think that a real survivalist would invest in some field guides and other books for when the shit really hits the fan, so they say, there isn't going to be power anyway. I mean, come on, a book on blacksmithing and one on farming the old fashioned way would be far better.
>bringing a computer with you camping.
Isn't the point of camping about trying to get away from that stuff? It is for me...
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BMO
>Yes because Fox News has nothing true on it
1. Fox went to court in Florida to defend the "right" to lie as news. They are the only news network to do so in the history of reporting. This is significant.
2. Shepard Smith (the only redeeming quality of Fox) is not enough to balance the derp.
Deal with it.
>assuming I watch MSNBC
Hardly ever. I watch BBC mostly and local news.
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BMO
Referencing both Fox *and* the Moonie paper?
Get out.
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BMO
This is late but... /usr/local/ and /opt/ can sit in their own partitions. I typically have it set up this way, especially when I have custom-compiled stuff sitting in /usr/local. /etc/ can't be in its own partition, because it needs to be read on boot. At least that's my experience. If you have any idea on how to put /etc/ in its own partition and still have a bootable system, I'd sure like to know (really).
At that point, blowing away the system and sticking something new in there would be really painless.
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BMO
I have no idea what you're talking about since gmail sorts through hundreds of spam messages for me per day and the false-positives are so few and far between. It's so many because I forward the mail from an account that I've had for almost 20 years now, that attracts an unfortunate amount of spam.
That said, you don't like the way it's organized. Fine. What's wrong with imap?
Google supports imap, ya know. Use your own MUA instead of the web interface. I'm currently reading my gmail account with M2, Opera's mailer.
--
BMO
Well, some people have custom stuff in /etc/ and whatnot, so an in-place upgrade is a lot more convenient.
That said, even on Windows, one should have the system/software and user partitions separated, if only for making a nuke-and-pave more painless. The whole business of having everything in C: is just dumb.
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BMO
This all assumes that there is some sort of legal restriction on giving money for things like this.
There isn't.
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BMO
This is the most twisted so-called "logic" that I've read all month.
I have only one word to say to you.
"Wut."
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BMO
PETA sockpuppet,
1. Look at the user ID. It's so new it's still wet behind the ears.
2. Aha, let's look at their postings. Only postings in this thread - no other history.
3. So let's check Loba Art's friends...
Loba Art (2933853) is all alone in the world.
I would agree with your assessment. Loba Art is a PETA sock.
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BMO
It's too bad you posted as AC. Your post should have more visibility because you're right. The number of posts pointing out the Pareto Principle, as if nobody here has ever heard of it, is maddening.
To follow up, what's with all the GPL bashing calling it socialistic and that companies are afraid if one guy contributes a few lines of gpl code supposedly making the whole project gpl? (hint, it doesn't, and the reverse doesn't work that way either).
What the fuck, Slashdot? It seems that if Linus Torvalds came out with his first kernel today and got a story posted on slashdot, all he'd get would be flames.
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BMO
>all you can eat buffet
YOU BE HERE FOUR HOUR! YOU GO HOME NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAkXPpBnSkM
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BMO
Marry me.
Heh.
have a great effin' day.
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BMO
Foot ulcers in diabetics and bed sores in the elderly are really hard to deal with. Even when blood sugar is under control, these things take a long time to heal. You don't ever want one to happen to you.
Slapping a specially treated bandage on a wound can *genetically* encourage healing? This is tantamount to finding out that you can cure scurvy with vitamin C to the affected people.
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BMO
I heard you talking sweetly to the ottoman. I thought you were on your cellphone, but then I saw the bluetooth earpiece on the kitchen counter.
Fess up!
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BMO
My tinfoil hat says that this isn't Anonymous.
This is SAPS getting back at people who rat them out. Covering it up with a tweet blaming Anonymous.
As long as you have a frightening scapegoat like Anonymous, you can do all sorts of things and get away with it. In the past, it was yellow peril, commies, etc.
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BMO