I'm pretty sure part of the problem is that some people honestly don't realize that Ubuntu's default interface isn't Gnome 3. I was pleasantly surprised at how slick and functional Gnome 3 actually was, but this Unity crap...
This article paired with the fact that we've destroyed most of the forests on this planet tells me that we've probably outright killed our environment, us, humans, massive deforestation, the ecosphere doesn't flow like it used to. we gummed up the gulf of mexico with oil, that slowed ocean currents world wide. Yeah climate change isn't all us but we sure as hell have been the ones to destroy our own environment.
This article shows us how we've already destroyed ourselves. We've eradicated the vast majority of forests from the planet. This article is pointing out how those forests were our biosphere. Without them, it's only a matter of time before there is no environment suitable for life as we know it on this planet.
The problem for this gentleman is that he doesn't understand HOW it is regulated. Mister Senator feels that it should be centrally regulated by his faction, but, that's not how regulation works in the Bitcoin world. Regulation of Bitcoin is done through protocol consensus, it's entirely based on the individual users and stakeholders who are actively part of the Bitcoin network. This is a truly strange argument against Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is neither anonymous nor unregulated. It's pseudonymous and uses a crowd regulated model. Perhaps Mister Senator should look into the idea of laws and regulations being created through consensus of the people, because I feel that he and his coworkers might benefit from the idea.
People don't like being spied on. Google Glass users are just going to have to deal with it. Cool, you aren't recording, but you're also not wearing that in here. Kinect has the same issue. People don't like being spied on. Augmented reality is neat but maybe a little more thought needs to be given to the implications of augmenting shared reality through devices like this.
While I agree with your mission and am a fan of the work you have done, I can't help but feel you've managed to shoot yourself in the foot with how you've handled your beliefs. I recently commented about how I felt your insistence of free software purity has made it so your organization was unable to appropriately evolve with the technological environment. GNU/Hurd is a failure. I see Apple and Microsoft trying their damnedest to bring us back into the walled garden world of proprietary UNIX, without the benefits of UNIX. I see Unity, I see Metro, I see the app store commercialization of the package manager, I see you calling LLVM a tragedy. What I don't see is you and your organization having done the footwork necessary to make it so we have a choice. Those of us who value our computing freedom, I feel, have been let down by the lack of a reasonable solution from GNU. My assertion is that in 2014, the GNU Free Software Foundation has failed to provide us an 'out' from proprietary computing platforms.
My question is thus: What do you feel can be done to allow yourself and the Free Software Foundation to move forward and solve this problem of failure?
While expending a portion of those resources to maintain the fix. The idea that you don't qualify given having a job, living a long life, and staying out of trouble with law enforcement shows that you have very little experience with actual drug addicts and may in fact be one yourself - even if the drug is video games.
Where do you get the idea that having a searchable list of all applications, not segmented into categories, is a good idea for the novice user? You've created an interface that outright requires previous computer knowledge and said it's for the people who aren't used to computers. Novice Ned isn't going to know what application to search for to do whatever task he's trying to accomplish, he's going to need a categorized list that lets him narrow down his options. What you've done with Unity and Metro is generate a list of executables and claimed it's user friendly. Idiots.
As for 64-bit, one thing I've been thinking about recently is that x32 ABI and the potential uses for it. x32 in this case is a way to compile 32-bit programs into native 64-bit applications using a virtual 4GB memory space, while taking advantage of the greater number of registers the x86-64 platform provides. I feel like this would go incredibly well with the multitude of barebones, lightweight, low memory VPS systems that are about today. That could theoretically provide some nice performance increases in any case where you don't need full 64bit memory space (which is basically everything a virtual private server is being used for). Unfortunately there seems to not be much attention being given to the idea...
I say you're wrong because we don't need systemd to do that. No, we don't, because it's been possible to multiplex the SysV style init for ages. My debian server does it, with a slow SSD, and the results are beautiful. I'm all about taking advantage of modern hardware, but you're seriously talking about rewriting init because you don't want to use one of the pre-existing options for multiplexing the start up process. That's silly.
The tradeoff is complexity and size. I've got to say, I still don't buy it, this entire concept of requiring more resources to do the same job and yet somehow being more scalable to a degree that makes the trade-off worthwhile. If you have to upgrade your system to see the benefits (embedded systems are no slouches these days, look at any ARM tablet specs) then those benefits are seriously questionable.
I lived in Adelphia's service area at the time. Adelphia had done some serious rollout in the region, they laid a lot of wire in anticipation of offering cable telecom services, then they hit the local market with the first real broadband option. When Comcast bought Adelphia, they soaked up all the new markets that had just been built, and stopped building. We need a cable company that gives a damn about their network.
I was told by some asshole around 2002 that all internet traffic in the world was being routed through a server in Virginia. I laughed it off, knowing how silly the idea of routing that sheer volume of traffic through a spy system was. But you know what happened in the following decade? Broadband speeds in the United States stagnated. In countries all over the world, broadband went from 1Mb, to 3Mb, to 6Mb, to 12Mb, to 20Mb, and beyond. While the average broadband speed in the US stayed around 1-6Mb. It's only been very recently, with looming threats from Verizon's FiOS and Google Fiber, that we saw any noticeable rollout of ADSL2, finally enabling the 20Mb DSL for customers who were stuck in the last decade. Comcast always advertised their top speeds as being for the first ~10 seconds of a download, then throttled.
They never needed to store all the information. They just kept us slow enough to be manageable.
It has more do to with the fact that they've decided to roll out a UI that's missing basic functionality, roll out as in intend to replace the production system with a half-assed beta. That's stupid, from every angle.
Not really about the UI redesign, but rather a number of issues relating to it, such as the fact that they've been attempting to fast track the roll-out of the beta. Fast tracking the roll out of an incomplete UI redesign that lacks core functionality, blindly claiming it's an improvement to the degree of actively replacing the production system. This is not how you create a product, this is how you DESTROY a product.
Yeah, let's run some numbers to see how well banning large swathes of the userbase will pan out for site-wide health.
Wow, we end up with people who think the Beta is functional and don't actually use the various features which lead to enhanced communication such as the ability to link directly to a comment. Seriously, my beta rage began when I realized that the comment display failed to include this information: "by abhi_beckert (785219) Alter Relationship on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:40AM (#46184825) " in a form that was accessible to the user. I couldn't link directly to a post I had commented on as an AC. That is, it broke the ability for the anonymous contributor to effectively follow up on a discussion. Now the thing is, this is absolute basic slashdot functionality, if the beta was skipping out on that feature for as long as it took me to make that comment where I noticed it, fuck beta.
The core reasoning for the troll is that homeopathy works by using substances that are known to cause ills, which is something core to vaccinations - many of them rely on deactivated or "dead" cells from the original ailment to train the body to fight against it. The dilution stuff is pretty silly, but the basic idea is important. My comments on the subject, however, are all about trolling.
Yeah, here's the problem. You have a popular website that doesn't make money, it's popular on its own merits and for what it provides. You need to find a way to make money off of this website.
You gut the website and make a new one.
That's not how you create a product, and the MBA isn't going to learn that until the sense has been taken out of every organization.
You know those mistakes that Apple, Microsoft, Canonical, Gnome, etc, everyone and their mother is making? Massive unworkable user interface changes that hobble the customer's ability to utilize their product? Thanks Dice, you've infected Slashdot with it. This is fucking disgraceful.
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I'm pretty sure part of the problem is that some people honestly don't realize that Ubuntu's default interface isn't Gnome 3. I was pleasantly surprised at how slick and functional Gnome 3 actually was, but this Unity crap...
This article paired with the fact that we've destroyed most of the forests on this planet tells me that we've probably outright killed our environment, us, humans, massive deforestation, the ecosphere doesn't flow like it used to. we gummed up the gulf of mexico with oil, that slowed ocean currents world wide. Yeah climate change isn't all us but we sure as hell have been the ones to destroy our own environment.
This article shows us how we've already destroyed ourselves. We've eradicated the vast majority of forests from the planet. This article is pointing out how those forests were our biosphere. Without them, it's only a matter of time before there is no environment suitable for life as we know it on this planet.
The problem for this gentleman is that he doesn't understand HOW it is regulated. Mister Senator feels that it should be centrally regulated by his faction, but, that's not how regulation works in the Bitcoin world. Regulation of Bitcoin is done through protocol consensus, it's entirely based on the individual users and stakeholders who are actively part of the Bitcoin network. This is a truly strange argument against Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is neither anonymous nor unregulated. It's pseudonymous and uses a crowd regulated model. Perhaps Mister Senator should look into the idea of laws and regulations being created through consensus of the people, because I feel that he and his coworkers might benefit from the idea.
People don't like being spied on. Google Glass users are just going to have to deal with it. Cool, you aren't recording, but you're also not wearing that in here. Kinect has the same issue. People don't like being spied on. Augmented reality is neat but maybe a little more thought needs to be given to the implications of augmenting shared reality through devices like this.
While I agree with your mission and am a fan of the work you have done, I can't help but feel you've managed to shoot yourself in the foot with how you've handled your beliefs. I recently commented about how I felt your insistence of free software purity has made it so your organization was unable to appropriately evolve with the technological environment. GNU/Hurd is a failure. I see Apple and Microsoft trying their damnedest to bring us back into the walled garden world of proprietary UNIX, without the benefits of UNIX. I see Unity, I see Metro, I see the app store commercialization of the package manager, I see you calling LLVM a tragedy. What I don't see is you and your organization having done the footwork necessary to make it so we have a choice. Those of us who value our computing freedom, I feel, have been let down by the lack of a reasonable solution from GNU. My assertion is that in 2014, the GNU Free Software Foundation has failed to provide us an 'out' from proprietary computing platforms.
My question is thus: What do you feel can be done to allow yourself and the Free Software Foundation to move forward and solve this problem of failure?
While expending a portion of those resources to maintain the fix. The idea that you don't qualify given having a job, living a long life, and staying out of trouble with law enforcement shows that you have very little experience with actual drug addicts and may in fact be one yourself - even if the drug is video games.
Where do you get the idea that having a searchable list of all applications, not segmented into categories, is a good idea for the novice user? You've created an interface that outright requires previous computer knowledge and said it's for the people who aren't used to computers. Novice Ned isn't going to know what application to search for to do whatever task he's trying to accomplish, he's going to need a categorized list that lets him narrow down his options. What you've done with Unity and Metro is generate a list of executables and claimed it's user friendly. Idiots.
As for 64-bit, one thing I've been thinking about recently is that x32 ABI and the potential uses for it. x32 in this case is a way to compile 32-bit programs into native 64-bit applications using a virtual 4GB memory space, while taking advantage of the greater number of registers the x86-64 platform provides. I feel like this would go incredibly well with the multitude of barebones, lightweight, low memory VPS systems that are about today. That could theoretically provide some nice performance increases in any case where you don't need full 64bit memory space (which is basically everything a virtual private server is being used for). Unfortunately there seems to not be much attention being given to the idea...
I say you're wrong because we don't need systemd to do that. No, we don't, because it's been possible to multiplex the SysV style init for ages. My debian server does it, with a slow SSD, and the results are beautiful. I'm all about taking advantage of modern hardware, but you're seriously talking about rewriting init because you don't want to use one of the pre-existing options for multiplexing the start up process. That's silly.
The tradeoff is complexity and size. I've got to say, I still don't buy it, this entire concept of requiring more resources to do the same job and yet somehow being more scalable to a degree that makes the trade-off worthwhile. If you have to upgrade your system to see the benefits (embedded systems are no slouches these days, look at any ARM tablet specs) then those benefits are seriously questionable.
Maybe the linux distributions should stop pulling an AppleSoft and start maintaining their shit instead of rewriting it again.
I lived in Adelphia's service area at the time. Adelphia had done some serious rollout in the region, they laid a lot of wire in anticipation of offering cable telecom services, then they hit the local market with the first real broadband option. When Comcast bought Adelphia, they soaked up all the new markets that had just been built, and stopped building. We need a cable company that gives a damn about their network.
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You're inflicting Windows 8 on your customers? I pity them, where do you operate again?
I was told by some asshole around 2002 that all internet traffic in the world was being routed through a server in Virginia. I laughed it off, knowing how silly the idea of routing that sheer volume of traffic through a spy system was. But you know what happened in the following decade? Broadband speeds in the United States stagnated. In countries all over the world, broadband went from 1Mb, to 3Mb, to 6Mb, to 12Mb, to 20Mb, and beyond. While the average broadband speed in the US stayed around 1-6Mb. It's only been very recently, with looming threats from Verizon's FiOS and Google Fiber, that we saw any noticeable rollout of ADSL2, finally enabling the 20Mb DSL for customers who were stuck in the last decade. Comcast always advertised their top speeds as being for the first ~10 seconds of a download, then throttled.
They never needed to store all the information. They just kept us slow enough to be manageable.
It has more do to with the fact that they've decided to roll out a UI that's missing basic functionality, roll out as in intend to replace the production system with a half-assed beta. That's stupid, from every angle.
What are you going to do when they remove that option?
Not really about the UI redesign, but rather a number of issues relating to it, such as the fact that they've been attempting to fast track the roll-out of the beta. Fast tracking the roll out of an incomplete UI redesign that lacks core functionality, blindly claiming it's an improvement to the degree of actively replacing the production system. This is not how you create a product, this is how you DESTROY a product.
Nope, they didn't say "We got it", they said "We're getting rid of Classic anyway".
Yeah, let's run some numbers to see how well banning large swathes of the userbase will pan out for site-wide health.
Wow, we end up with people who think the Beta is functional and don't actually use the various features which lead to enhanced communication such as the ability to link directly to a comment. Seriously, my beta rage began when I realized that the comment display failed to include this information: "by abhi_beckert (785219) Alter Relationship on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:40AM (#46184825) " in a form that was accessible to the user. I couldn't link directly to a post I had commented on as an AC. That is, it broke the ability for the anonymous contributor to effectively follow up on a discussion. Now the thing is, this is absolute basic slashdot functionality, if the beta was skipping out on that feature for as long as it took me to make that comment where I noticed it, fuck beta.
If we didn't have to throw a fit about it, the article we are commenting on would not have been posted. It's that simple.
The core reasoning for the troll is that homeopathy works by using substances that are known to cause ills, which is something core to vaccinations - many of them rely on deactivated or "dead" cells from the original ailment to train the body to fight against it. The dilution stuff is pretty silly, but the basic idea is important. My comments on the subject, however, are all about trolling.
Yeah, here's the problem. You have a popular website that doesn't make money, it's popular on its own merits and for what it provides. You need to find a way to make money off of this website.
You gut the website and make a new one.
That's not how you create a product, and the MBA isn't going to learn that until the sense has been taken out of every organization.
You know those mistakes that Apple, Microsoft, Canonical, Gnome, etc, everyone and their mother is making? Massive unworkable user interface changes that hobble the customer's ability to utilize their product? Thanks Dice, you've infected Slashdot with it. This is fucking disgraceful.