Yes, but they're talking about Ubuntu, not "Linux". Ubuntu can be whatever Canonical wants it to be, but even allowing for that loophole, they certainly can make a Ubuntu that feels like Ubuntu but eschews Linux in favor of another kernel.
Yeah, there's no mention of Linux per se in TFS, and TFA avoided mentioning Linux until the final paragraph: "So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is." I really don't want to get religious about this, but I'm thinking it's not a step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux if the Linux kernel is absent.
And you could probably reach that 1GB in less than an hour. Possibly without your knowledge.
I suppose you could, if you are clueless about the terms of your plan, ignorant about how your device works, don't set a data usage alert, don't set a data usage limit, and are in the habit of streaming high-bandwidth content without regard for the circumstances. What a nightmare!
Wow, I was relying on that very chart below which I had seen on a different page by itself from nationalpriorities.org...
Right, that's the "discretionary spending" part of the budget. By the way, the portion of the military budget (acquisitions) that supports private sector jobs is about $105 billion out of the $634 billion total.
Hrm... one possibility: are your machines using an MSDN-generated license (say, off of a private subscription, or an EA or SA contract), an OEM one, or...?
As I said, it came with the computer, so an OEM license.
Actually, the one I was originally talking about coming with the computer was Win 10 OEM, but the Win7 laptop that tried to update to Win10 was also OEM.
Hrm... one possibility: are your machines using an MSDN-generated license (say, off of a private subscription, or an EA or SA contract), an OEM one, or...?
As I said, it came with the computer, so an OEM license.
Over 50% of the US budget is for the military. The next largest slice is only about 6.5%.
I'd like to see your source for that claim. this shows that for Obama's 2016 budget, the military slice is 16%, at $634 billion. That puts it at a relatively distant third place behind Social Security, Unemployment and Labor (33%, $1.37 trillion) and Medicare and Health (27%, $1.1 trillion).
Why? I have yet to find even one aspect where 7 is superior to 10. There's no advantage whatsoever in sticking with an OS now two releases out of date.
Well, a lot of people think that Win7's lesser amount of phoning home with your data is a superior aspect, but let's put that one aside.
The question should not be, "What aspect of 7 is superior to 10?", but "What aspect of 10 is superior to 7?" I have one laptop that has Windows 10 installed, because that's what it came with. It's fine, but my answer to that second question is still, "I haven't found one yet." Perhaps you have, but your use case is not my use case.
Many people are unfamiliar with the idea that something that works doesn't need fixing. And of course, some just want the new shiny because it's new and shiny. Personally, if I have a tool that works the way I need it to, I prefer to leave it alone. In the end, it's just a tool.
If you're claiming that this never happened to you on 30+ machines, then you haven't used Windows Update on those 30+ machines in the past 6 months or you're a fucking liar.
Christ, calm down. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've seen (and evaded) it on one out of four Win7 machines at my house; not a whisper on the other three. It's entirely possible that 30 machines could skate on this.
I've got 30+ Windows 7 machines, and I've never seen it in Windows Update as an update. Maybe just for pirated versions of Windows 7?
I've got 4 Windows 7 machines, and I've seen it in Windows Update on one of them. Barely caught it - went to shut down the laptop at the end of a session, and noticed the little yellow flag on the Shutdown button that means, "I'm going to install updates during the shutdown sequence". Instead of shutting down, I went to Control Panel and looked at the list of pending updates. The "Upgrade to Windows 10" was right at the top of the list. I unchecked it, and haven't seen it since.
No, nautical miles are more commonly known as knots, so the appropriate abbreviation is "km". I see it all the time, especially in Europe, where they use km for almost everything.
I hope you're trying to be funny. Europe does not use English units of speed to express Metric measures of distance.
Thank you; I hadn't heard of them. Are all, or most, of these implementations bad? If so, is there something else (like NCLB) going on?
I honestly can't say whether they're all bad. I can say I've seen examples of implementations that I personally consider pretty tragic; particularly in math, where methods presented for solving simple algebraic equations fail when coefficients aren't integers, where addition and subtraction are called 'put together' and 'take apart' and where terms like 'zero pairs' (aka, 'additive inverses' - two numbers whose sum is zero) seem to be preferred over traditional concepts like associative, distributive, and commutative properties.
Yeah, I'm an old guy. I caught the leading edge of 'New Math' in elementary school, and I was frequently marked down for finding answers through knowing multiplication tables instead of using tortured estimation/iteration techniques. I guess that makes me a bit biased.
From TFA: “The radioactive contamination found on the ships involved in Operation Tomodachi is at such low levels that it does not pose a health concern to the crews, their families, or maintenance personnel,” Hilarides said.
Yeah. Still deadly shit. Or maybe just hyperbolic bullshit.
Lots of things are subsidized by the government and our tax dollars. Like $550,000,000,000 PER YEAR IN DEFENSE SPENDING.
DoD procurement spending, which is what I assume you're referring to as subsidized by the government and our tax dollars, was just over $102 billion in 2015. Federal subsidies for electricity-related renewable energy increased 54% to $13.2 billion from 2010 to 2013, and has no doubt increased significantly since then. Doesn't seem too out of whack to me.
How many implementations are there out there? I've only read of one big corp trying to impose its version of the standard. When we have several, and they're all bad, then we'll talk.
A quick search turned up this,this, this, this, and this. But wait, those are more or less commercial offerings. It seems that individual states, districts, and schools are rolling their own implementations as well.
Do you realize that the common core is nothing but a set of standards as far as what students should be able to achieve at various levels? It does not dictate how teachers are supposed to teach the standards.
Yes, I do. I also realize that when many implementations of a standard are clearly defective, there may actually be something wrong with the standard.
Sounds like Google had very specific design requirements and didn't want to spend the money in house doing development. So they dream up a contest and offer a cash prize. Meanwhile Google saves way more than the $1 million they paid out.
Are you implying that Google somehow assumed ownership of the designs? TFA didn't say that the submitted designs ended up belonging to anyone aside from the submitters; it was, in fact, mute on the subject of ownership. Do you have a source to cite that says Google ended up owning any of the designs?
No, not new, and not really slang, but more commonly used in the UK than US. Pronounced to rhyme with "ow" (as in, "that hurts!"). Meaning "noisy dispute or quarrel."
Let's first see evidence that the FBI and San Bernardino County didn't deliberately destroy or hide evidence to force the whole issue.
I'd be interested in knowing what this evidence that destruction or hiding didn't happen, would look like. If you could find someone who could credibly testify that evidence was destroyed or hidden, great; that would be evidence that it did happen. But what would it take to satisfy you that this didn't didn't happen?
Actually, he's nearly correct. He would have been completely correct if he'd said it this way: How many times has the kind of "help" that the FBI has asked for in this case for been done? None. Releasing cloud storage is not remotely (heh) similar to writing new software to bypass the password entry protection.
OK, Alphabet has contributed about $163,000 to Sanders over his entire political career. That makes them the largest single contributor, making up approximately 0.4% of his contributions for the current election cycle. That's not quite up to the standard of "Sanders is getting his money to campaign from large corporations". It would be more accurate to say "Sanders is one 250th of his money to campaign from large corporations".
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Yes, but they're talking about Ubuntu, not "Linux". Ubuntu can be whatever Canonical wants it to be, but even allowing for that loophole, they certainly can make a Ubuntu that feels like Ubuntu but eschews Linux in favor of another kernel.
Yeah, there's no mention of Linux per se in TFS, and TFA avoided mentioning Linux until the final paragraph: "So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is." I really don't want to get religious about this, but I'm thinking it's not a step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux if the Linux kernel is absent.
you don't need the kernel
I'm pretty sure that if you don't have the Linux kernel, you don't have Linux at all.
So, the chilling effect is rebranded as racism?
I'll allow it.
Christ. Minority opinions != opinions of minorities.
I'm wondering where you buy commercial software to control the hardware support systems for a space launch system that doesn't even exist yet.
Same here. A search on the Google Play store came up empty.
And you could probably reach that 1GB in less than an hour. Possibly without your knowledge.
I suppose you could, if you are clueless about the terms of your plan, ignorant about how your device works, don't set a data usage alert, don't set a data usage limit, and are in the habit of streaming high-bandwidth content without regard for the circumstances. What a nightmare!
Make up an ISP plan with 1KB/mth data cap. Then charge $1000/kb overage (like a typical Verizon plan).
Typical?? Verizon's lowest tier data plan is 1 GB/month. Overage rate is $15/GB.
Wow, I was relying on that very chart below which I had seen on a different page by itself from nationalpriorities.org...
Right, that's the "discretionary spending" part of the budget. By the way, the portion of the military budget (acquisitions) that supports private sector jobs is about $105 billion out of the $634 billion total.
Hrm... one possibility: are your machines using an MSDN-generated license (say, off of a private subscription, or an EA or SA contract), an OEM one, or...?
As I said, it came with the computer, so an OEM license.
Actually, the one I was originally talking about coming with the computer was Win 10 OEM, but the Win7 laptop that tried to update to Win10 was also OEM.
Hrm... one possibility: are your machines using an MSDN-generated license (say, off of a private subscription, or an EA or SA contract), an OEM one, or...?
As I said, it came with the computer, so an OEM license.
Over 50% of the US budget is for the military. The next largest slice is only about 6.5%.
I'd like to see your source for that claim. this shows that for Obama's 2016 budget, the military slice is 16%, at $634 billion. That puts it at a relatively distant third place behind Social Security, Unemployment and Labor (33%, $1.37 trillion) and Medicare and Health (27%, $1.1 trillion).
Why? I have yet to find even one aspect where 7 is superior to 10. There's no advantage whatsoever in sticking with an OS now two releases out of date.
Well, a lot of people think that Win7's lesser amount of phoning home with your data is a superior aspect, but let's put that one aside.
The question should not be, "What aspect of 7 is superior to 10?", but "What aspect of 10 is superior to 7?" I have one laptop that has Windows 10 installed, because that's what it came with. It's fine, but my answer to that second question is still, "I haven't found one yet." Perhaps you have, but your use case is not my use case.
Many people are unfamiliar with the idea that something that works doesn't need fixing. And of course, some just want the new shiny because it's new and shiny. Personally, if I have a tool that works the way I need it to, I prefer to leave it alone. In the end, it's just a tool.
If you're claiming that this never happened to you on 30+ machines, then you haven't used Windows Update on those 30+ machines in the past 6 months or you're a fucking liar.
Christ, calm down. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've seen (and evaded) it on one out of four Win7 machines at my house; not a whisper on the other three. It's entirely possible that 30 machines could skate on this.
I've got 30+ Windows 7 machines, and I've never seen it in Windows Update as an update. Maybe just for pirated versions of Windows 7?
I've got 4 Windows 7 machines, and I've seen it in Windows Update on one of them. Barely caught it - went to shut down the laptop at the end of a session, and noticed the little yellow flag on the Shutdown button that means, "I'm going to install updates during the shutdown sequence". Instead of shutting down, I went to Control Panel and looked at the list of pending updates. The "Upgrade to Windows 10" was right at the top of the list. I unchecked it, and haven't seen it since.
Nautical miles. I assume...
No, nautical miles are more commonly known as knots, so the appropriate abbreviation is "km". I see it all the time, especially in Europe, where they use km for almost everything.
I hope you're trying to be funny. Europe does not use English units of speed to express Metric measures of distance.
Thank you; I hadn't heard of them. Are all, or most, of these implementations bad? If so, is there something else (like NCLB) going on?
I honestly can't say whether they're all bad. I can say I've seen examples of implementations that I personally consider pretty tragic; particularly in math, where methods presented for solving simple algebraic equations fail when coefficients aren't integers, where addition and subtraction are called 'put together' and 'take apart' and where terms like 'zero pairs' (aka, 'additive inverses' - two numbers whose sum is zero) seem to be preferred over traditional concepts like associative, distributive, and commutative properties.
Yeah, I'm an old guy. I caught the leading edge of 'New Math' in elementary school, and I was frequently marked down for finding answers through knowing multiplication tables instead of using tortured estimation/iteration techniques. I guess that makes me a bit biased.
1/2 deadly shit. Still deadly shit.
From TFA: “The radioactive contamination found on the ships involved in Operation Tomodachi is at such low levels that it does not pose a health concern to the crews, their families, or maintenance personnel,” Hilarides said.
Yeah. Still deadly shit. Or maybe just hyperbolic bullshit.
Lots of things are subsidized by the government and our tax dollars. Like $550,000,000,000 PER YEAR IN DEFENSE SPENDING.
DoD procurement spending, which is what I assume you're referring to as subsidized by the government and our tax dollars, was just over $102 billion in 2015. Federal subsidies for electricity-related renewable energy increased 54% to $13.2 billion from 2010 to 2013, and has no doubt increased significantly since then. Doesn't seem too out of whack to me.
How many implementations are there out there? I've only read of one big corp trying to impose its version of the standard. When we have several, and they're all bad, then we'll talk.
A quick search turned up this,this, this, this, and this. But wait, those are more or less commercial offerings. It seems that individual states, districts, and schools are rolling their own implementations as well.
Do you realize that the common core is nothing but a set of standards as far as what students should be able to achieve at various levels? It does not dictate how teachers are supposed to teach the standards.
Yes, I do. I also realize that when many implementations of a standard are clearly defective, there may actually be something wrong with the standard.
Thanks for that. Too bad the mod points seem to be in the hands of people who would rather believe it's not true.
Sounds like Google had very specific design requirements and didn't want to spend the money in house doing development. So they dream up a contest and offer a cash prize. Meanwhile Google saves way more than the $1 million they paid out.
Are you implying that Google somehow assumed ownership of the designs? TFA didn't say that the submitted designs ended up belonging to anyone aside from the submitters; it was, in fact, mute on the subject of ownership. Do you have a source to cite that says Google ended up owning any of the designs?
Is this some kind of new slang maybe?
No, not new, and not really slang, but more commonly used in the UK than US. Pronounced to rhyme with "ow" (as in, "that hurts!"). Meaning "noisy dispute or quarrel."
Let's first see evidence that the FBI and San Bernardino County didn't deliberately destroy or hide evidence to force the whole issue.
I'd be interested in knowing what this evidence that destruction or hiding didn't happen, would look like. If you could find someone who could credibly testify that evidence was destroyed or hidden, great; that would be evidence that it did happen. But what would it take to satisfy you that this didn't didn't happen?
Actually, you're completely wrong.
Actually, he's nearly correct. He would have been completely correct if he'd said it this way: How many times has the kind of "help" that the FBI has asked for in this case for been done? None. Releasing cloud storage is not remotely (heh) similar to writing new software to bypass the password entry protection.
OK, Alphabet has contributed about $163,000 to Sanders over his entire political career. That makes them the largest single contributor, making up approximately 0.4% of his contributions for the current election cycle. That's not quite up to the standard of "Sanders is getting his money to campaign from large corporations". It would be more accurate to say "Sanders is one 250th of his money to campaign from large corporations".