I will be sticking with the Greens until the DNC gets taken back from the billionaires.
So let me clarify: you're worried about DNC being controlled by billionaires from your own country, and to prove that point, you're going to be sticking to the Greens, who are controlled by billionaires from another country?
Regardless of how more functional the Apple strip is compared to Lenovo, it shares the same fundamental problem of no/crappy haptic feedback when actually using it as an extra row of keys (for things like Esc and F1-12). Which makes working on that part of it much more difficult than on a normal keyboard. I speak from experience, as I've been using that very Thinkpad model for over a year now.
Universal apps are about way more than just phones. Excluding those, it's still desktop/tablet/Xbox. And even if it were just desktop, they're still worthwhile - it's a chance to finally clean up 35 years of accumulated API and ABI cruft in the ecosystem.
Also, Win10 does do exactly what you describe, with separate "tablet" and "desktop" modes; and it operates a lot more like Win7 than Win8 in desktop mode - all apps are windowed with the usual resizing etc behavior, start menu is a proper non-full screen menu, all swipe-from-edge widgets are replaced proper buttons to click on etc. It looks different mostly because of the flat style - I bet if you could reskin it to look like Win7, few people would even notice the difference.
Of course, the real limitation there is software - since it's still an ARM device, it's limited to Windows Store apps only. Although that's still good enough for plain word processing.
Trump doesn't need to start a war to wipe the country out. That's the beauty - it's like a human neutron bomb. Make it go off, then come pick up the pieces, it's all safe.
One interesting theory is that Putin did want 1941 to happen again - in a sense of forcing US and Europe to overcome their disdain for his politics, and accept him for the sake of a military alliance against some kind of "absolute evil", that was supposed to be ISIS. Hence, Syria.
Didn't quite work out that way, and now he's just playing with the hand that he has.
It's not misleading, it's true. I'm Russian. That's exactly what it looks like "on the inside", when you talk to people and watch the news. It's almost like with Trump - they have this picture of some glorious past that never really want, and they believe that this is how they get there.
"were much worse towards their population than towards foreigners"
Communists indeed do far worse to Russia than to any country occupied by the USSR. Well, perhaps except Ukraine. Just in terms of sheer body count alone; but on most other metrics as well - Eastern European countries that were controlled by the Soviets generally had "better" socialism (better quality of goods, more tolerance for low-scale commerce etc).
Russo-Georgian War (2008). I think they chewed off another chunk of Georgia in this.
Not really. There was already a war there before (concurrent with the one in Abkhazia), that made South Ossetia de facto independent before. The one in 2008 was basically reinforcing the status quo.
Interaction with filesystem has always been available out of the box - you get/mnt/c,/mnt/d etc.
It works the other way around, too, since WSL filesystem is just an NTFS folder. However, because WSL uses some custom attributes to describe inode semantics, which Win32 knows nothing about, writing into WSL filesystem from Win32 is not advisable.
Launching Windows executables from command line isn't supported out of the box. You're right, this is one use case where Cygwin is better for now. But there are several ways to make this work with a little effort - for example, you can ssh into Windows prompt, or use a Win32 server process and connect to it through a local socket. Here is the issue tracking this, and various solutions people have come up with so far.
It's also written by someone who has no clue what they're talking about "Windows 10 implementation of Bash", really? It's called WSL, and it runs native Linux binaries. There's no implementation of Bash there other than the one that's in Ubuntu.
As for the bugs, it's the inevitable outcome of trying to cram a Linux filesystem in an NTFS directory (which is there for the ease of installation and convenience). If you want the real thing with 100% fidelity, loop mount ext4 (of course, then you lose easy access to it from Windows).
Any specific answer would be very point-in-time (hardware and software support etc changes).
Philosophy-wise, though, there is a difference that is a constant. In FreeBSD, the people who write the kernel are the same people who write libc and the rest of the base system (or at least package and test it). So the core OS feels less like something assembled with glue and duct tape, and more like a single polished product. It's even more obvious when you look at the source - same coding standards everywhere, same quality bars etc.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing or irrelevant depends on your perspective.
Oh sure, Texas and most of the rest of the South is getting pretty purple. But that's because they are rapidly urbanizing. If you look at states like, say, Montana or Wyoming, they're going to remain the way they are for some time to come.
I agree that it's a very real possibility that GOP will come apart on the federal level. If that happens, it may well become non-existent in deep blue states, like Republicans were in the Solid South, not even bothering to run. But one of side effects will be that the tea party and other uber-hardliners are finally going to be able to run amok on local level where they have a following, even more so than they are today. We'll probably see some regional equivalent to Dixiecrats, maybe even several.
I don't think we're going to get rid of trumpkins after the election. Unfortunately, whether Trump wins or not, he already did one thing that is not easily reversible - he became a role model to all those people and showed that you can not only think crap like that, but say it in the public, and act out on it - and you'll have enough people to back you up to not be an outright social outcast, at least in some parts of the country. Which means that they'll keep doing it for some time to come, and it'll be a thing in deep red local politics for a while.
The good thing is that it's largely a self-correcting problem, because these people will simply die out eventually - millennials can be misguided on many things, but they clearly aren't fond of Trump and his firebrand ugliness en masse. Of course, that's assuming that another such movement doesn't get fostered the way Republicans fostered racism since Goldwater.
If the American political system provided for fair proportional representation, there would be no issue - parties could use whatever rules for their primaries they wanted (including no primaries whatsoever), and anyone could just go start their own party if they were unhappy about it.
The reality, however, is that the political system is mathematically disadvantageous to third parties to such an extreme extent, that fair primaries become the only way to avoid mass disenfranchisement in practice. Which is why we regulate them on many matters, such as prohibiting "white-only" primaries. In that context, it's not at all unreasonable to complain that the rules are unfair, when they actually are unfair.
The country was polarized many times before, but it was always on one or two specific issues. For example, they had to hammer out a compromise on slavery when writing the original Constitution, and then there was that whole debate over whether federal legislature should be one-person-one-vote or one-state-one-vote.
But, because the scope of those were limited, even when they couldn't find agreement there, they could still compromise on many other things. Like, there was widespread acceptance for the need for something like the First and the Second Amendments among all factions, even as they argued about the precise wording and its implications. Some things didn't get included because the parties couldn't agree; but ultimately they could agree on enough to hammer out the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which is quite a lot.
I guess it would be accurate to say that back then, they disagreed on "issues". In today's US, the disagreement is only nominally on issues, and in reality mostly just partisan. As soon as Democrats adopt some policy or another, Republicans immediately oppose it, regardless of what they thought about it before. On the other hand, when Trump came and basically rewrote the Republican platform, most of them just fell in line. And while Republicans are definitely the party of "my way or the highway" these days, I have to point a finger at many Democrats as well - I've seen plenty of people argue against e.g. gun rights not on the basis of any rational arguments, but simply on the basis of "let's stick it to them rednecks".
So if it comes to the convention, I expect the same thing - anything that comes from the left will be opposed by the right regardless of what it actually is about, "on principle".
The "net effect" is negligible in the age of the Internet. I made several non-FFL, background-check-free gun purchases myself, and not a single one of them was at a gun show. It was always some guy I got in touch with online, and then met at some convenient and easily accessible location - e.g. a gun range relatively close to both of us. With specialized platforms like GunBroker and ArmsList, with their thousands of listings and the ability to easily filter, gun shows cannot compete.
About the only reason I can think of to go to a gun show is to find some hot deals, e.g. when someone is dumping their stock (not just guns, but also, and more likely, ammo and other consumables). But these usually come from FFLs.
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I will be sticking with the Greens until the DNC gets taken back from the billionaires.
So let me clarify: you're worried about DNC being controlled by billionaires from your own country, and to prove that point, you're going to be sticking to the Greens, who are controlled by billionaires from another country?
Regardless of how more functional the Apple strip is compared to Lenovo, it shares the same fundamental problem of no/crappy haptic feedback when actually using it as an extra row of keys (for things like Esc and F1-12). Which makes working on that part of it much more difficult than on a normal keyboard. I speak from experience, as I've been using that very Thinkpad model for over a year now.
Universal apps are about way more than just phones. Excluding those, it's still desktop/tablet/Xbox. And even if it were just desktop, they're still worthwhile - it's a chance to finally clean up 35 years of accumulated API and ABI cruft in the ecosystem.
Also, Win10 does do exactly what you describe, with separate "tablet" and "desktop" modes; and it operates a lot more like Win7 than Win8 in desktop mode - all apps are windowed with the usual resizing etc behavior, start menu is a proper non-full screen menu, all swipe-from-edge widgets are replaced proper buttons to click on etc. It looks different mostly because of the flat style - I bet if you could reskin it to look like Win7, few people would even notice the difference.
The trick about Windows 10 phones is that you can literally plug a keyboard and mouse into them, and use them as a low-powered desktop.
Of course, the real limitation there is software - since it's still an ARM device, it's limited to Windows Store apps only. Although that's still good enough for plain word processing.
Note "favour". It's the Redcoat revenge.
Trump doesn't need to start a war to wipe the country out. That's the beauty - it's like a human neutron bomb. Make it go off, then come pick up the pieces, it's all safe.
To be pedantic, they announced that they broke from al-Qaeda. No-one seems to have taken that seriously.
He's reciting the contents of "Icebreaker" and "Day M" by Victor Suvorov/Rezun.
One interesting theory is that Putin did want 1941 to happen again - in a sense of forcing US and Europe to overcome their disdain for his politics, and accept him for the sake of a military alliance against some kind of "absolute evil", that was supposed to be ISIS. Hence, Syria.
Didn't quite work out that way, and now he's just playing with the hand that he has.
It's not misleading, it's true. I'm Russian. That's exactly what it looks like "on the inside", when you talk to people and watch the news. It's almost like with Trump - they have this picture of some glorious past that never really want, and they believe that this is how they get there.
Is Iran and a bunch of African dictatorships much better?
(On Latin American dictators, I think we can call it even, considering Cuba and Venezuela.)
No, he is 100% correct on that particular point:
"were much worse towards their population than towards foreigners"
Communists indeed do far worse to Russia than to any country occupied by the USSR. Well, perhaps except Ukraine. Just in terms of sheer body count alone; but on most other metrics as well - Eastern European countries that were controlled by the Soviets generally had "better" socialism (better quality of goods, more tolerance for low-scale commerce etc).
Russo-Georgian War (2008). I think they chewed off another chunk of Georgia in this.
Not really. There was already a war there before (concurrent with the one in Abkhazia), that made South Ossetia de facto independent before. The one in 2008 was basically reinforcing the status quo.
Looking at all the "5, Insightful" comments - did I miss something? Has /. been taken over by 4chan redpillers lately?
Apple never touched GPL stuff.
Guess why parts of WebKit are still LGPL?
Looks like we've got major changes coming in this department soon:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...
Interaction with filesystem has always been available out of the box - you get /mnt/c, /mnt/d etc.
It works the other way around, too, since WSL filesystem is just an NTFS folder. However, because WSL uses some custom attributes to describe inode semantics, which Win32 knows nothing about, writing into WSL filesystem from Win32 is not advisable.
Launching Windows executables from command line isn't supported out of the box. You're right, this is one use case where Cygwin is better for now. But there are several ways to make this work with a little effort - for example, you can ssh into Windows prompt, or use a Win32 server process and connect to it through a local socket. Here is the issue tracking this, and various solutions people have come up with so far.
It's also written by someone who has no clue what they're talking about "Windows 10 implementation of Bash", really? It's called WSL, and it runs native Linux binaries. There's no implementation of Bash there other than the one that's in Ubuntu.
As for the bugs, it's the inevitable outcome of trying to cram a Linux filesystem in an NTFS directory (which is there for the ease of installation and convenience). If you want the real thing with 100% fidelity, loop mount ext4 (of course, then you lose easy access to it from Windows).
It really isn't. Everything that Cygwin does, WSL does better.
Any specific answer would be very point-in-time (hardware and software support etc changes).
Philosophy-wise, though, there is a difference that is a constant. In FreeBSD, the people who write the kernel are the same people who write libc and the rest of the base system (or at least package and test it). So the core OS feels less like something assembled with glue and duct tape, and more like a single polished product. It's even more obvious when you look at the source - same coding standards everywhere, same quality bars etc.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing or irrelevant depends on your perspective.
Oh sure, Texas and most of the rest of the South is getting pretty purple. But that's because they are rapidly urbanizing. If you look at states like, say, Montana or Wyoming, they're going to remain the way they are for some time to come.
I agree that it's a very real possibility that GOP will come apart on the federal level. If that happens, it may well become non-existent in deep blue states, like Republicans were in the Solid South, not even bothering to run. But one of side effects will be that the tea party and other uber-hardliners are finally going to be able to run amok on local level where they have a following, even more so than they are today. We'll probably see some regional equivalent to Dixiecrats, maybe even several.
I don't think we're going to get rid of trumpkins after the election. Unfortunately, whether Trump wins or not, he already did one thing that is not easily reversible - he became a role model to all those people and showed that you can not only think crap like that, but say it in the public, and act out on it - and you'll have enough people to back you up to not be an outright social outcast, at least in some parts of the country. Which means that they'll keep doing it for some time to come, and it'll be a thing in deep red local politics for a while.
The good thing is that it's largely a self-correcting problem, because these people will simply die out eventually - millennials can be misguided on many things, but they clearly aren't fond of Trump and his firebrand ugliness en masse. Of course, that's assuming that another such movement doesn't get fostered the way Republicans fostered racism since Goldwater.
If the American political system provided for fair proportional representation, there would be no issue - parties could use whatever rules for their primaries they wanted (including no primaries whatsoever), and anyone could just go start their own party if they were unhappy about it.
The reality, however, is that the political system is mathematically disadvantageous to third parties to such an extreme extent, that fair primaries become the only way to avoid mass disenfranchisement in practice. Which is why we regulate them on many matters, such as prohibiting "white-only" primaries. In that context, it's not at all unreasonable to complain that the rules are unfair, when they actually are unfair.
The country was polarized many times before, but it was always on one or two specific issues. For example, they had to hammer out a compromise on slavery when writing the original Constitution, and then there was that whole debate over whether federal legislature should be one-person-one-vote or one-state-one-vote.
But, because the scope of those were limited, even when they couldn't find agreement there, they could still compromise on many other things. Like, there was widespread acceptance for the need for something like the First and the Second Amendments among all factions, even as they argued about the precise wording and its implications. Some things didn't get included because the parties couldn't agree; but ultimately they could agree on enough to hammer out the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which is quite a lot.
I guess it would be accurate to say that back then, they disagreed on "issues". In today's US, the disagreement is only nominally on issues, and in reality mostly just partisan. As soon as Democrats adopt some policy or another, Republicans immediately oppose it, regardless of what they thought about it before. On the other hand, when Trump came and basically rewrote the Republican platform, most of them just fell in line. And while Republicans are definitely the party of "my way or the highway" these days, I have to point a finger at many Democrats as well - I've seen plenty of people argue against e.g. gun rights not on the basis of any rational arguments, but simply on the basis of "let's stick it to them rednecks".
So if it comes to the convention, I expect the same thing - anything that comes from the left will be opposed by the right regardless of what it actually is about, "on principle".
The "net effect" is negligible in the age of the Internet. I made several non-FFL, background-check-free gun purchases myself, and not a single one of them was at a gun show. It was always some guy I got in touch with online, and then met at some convenient and easily accessible location - e.g. a gun range relatively close to both of us. With specialized platforms like GunBroker and ArmsList, with their thousands of listings and the ability to easily filter, gun shows cannot compete.
About the only reason I can think of to go to a gun show is to find some hot deals, e.g. when someone is dumping their stock (not just guns, but also, and more likely, ammo and other consumables). But these usually come from FFLs.