And with Metro onward, Microsoft also has introduced an XML configuration structure as well. Maybe for Joe and Jane Average running Windows 10 Home, as long as they're not interested in anything beyond the sparest kind of modifications that the increasingly simplified and unconfigurable Settings system makes available, Windows remains a simpler system, but for those administering AD domains and the like, it can be an incredibly complex environment. Our recent fun with configuring default applications on domain members, which amounts to configuring a custom XML file to roll out default app changes, shows that things are getting more complicated for any kind of complex administration.
And that's counting on something not going wrong. The printer subsystem in Windows, in my view, has become much more error prone and much less stable than in earlier versions of Windows. Getting rid of old drivers, or in some cases event trying to get rid of phantom printers often involves shutting the Spooler service down, and manually deleting printer entries both from the spooler directory and from the registry, and even then, we've had old phantom connections just spontaneously reappear, even where a member workstation has been moved to an entirely different GPO.
Windows reached a kind of peak of stability and usability with Windows XP and Server 2003. Things weren't perfect, but in general both workstations and servers tended to function in predictable ways that, at worst, you could at least configure around. But even with Server 2008 there were already signs, like IIS configuration nightmares, that stability was no longer a prime objective. Beyond the most basic usage scenarios, Windows can be a nightmare, particularly when things go wrong.
Windows has just as many obstacles if you want to go beyond defaults. I can't begin to count the number of times I've been pushed into the registry or local policies to make a change or fix something.
Firefox only works marginally better. Most of the problems came with the last major update for the Nexus 7 (2012), which was, as I recall, Kit Kat. At any rate, everything I've learned suggests slower flash memory is a big culprit.
Well, whatever advantages of the new Android version, I'm still getting app updates for the Google apps like Drive on my Nexus 7 (2012). Mind you, the Chrome updates over the last year or so have made the tablet largely useless for browsing, though I still use it as an ereader and can watch Netflix on it.
That's because they actually lived under Fascist governments. But the term has lost all meaning in the intervening period of time. Basically, any real or perceived government overreach is immediately declared the signs of fascism and a police state.
That's why I go with the unlocked Nexus devices. These are the reference Android installs, and the only thing they come with is the stock Google apps like Chrome, Calendar and the mail app. While Samsung may make pretty attractive hardware, I have little interest in the crapware and the odd changes they make to the UI and default apps.
We live in the age of buzzwords and catchphrases which can be quickly used to categorize people without actually having to give thought to what they're saying. Words like "neocon", "fascist", "SJW", and "neo-liberal" all have very little meaning, but assist the simple mind, though sadly it is often to assist them in creating a faulty model of the world around them.
You don't care if humanity dies? Why? So you can keep burning gasoline. It's hard sometimes with comments like these to figure out whether people like you are sociopaths or just petulant children.
Perhaps Google is getting too powerful, but one thing is clear, Oracle has been too powerful for far too long, and if it takes the up-and-coming Godzilla to defeat one of the Old Dark Ones, then so be it.
As to regulating search, just don't use Google search or any Google products. It's not like Bing doesn't exist, or other companies don't make search engines. Regulating search, at least in the limited purview of "right to be forgotten" nonsense in Europe, has demonstrated how bad regulation could become. Much better that you simply invoke the consumer's right, and don't use Google products.
Oh bullshit. Oracle lost because Oracle never had a fucking case.
Christ, Microsoft shills is one thing, but defending one of the most vile tech companies that ever existed, gimme a break. Every time Oracle gets shafted, an angel gets its wings.
Scanners have been one of the biggest rip offs in the Windows update game. I had a very good flatbed scanner I had inherited that worked as late as Windows 2000, but when I upgraded to XP, for some reason I couldn't get the drivers to work properly. I managed to get it working properly once, and when I rebooted, it wouldn't see the scanner any more. I came to the conclusion that the drivers themselves must be checking out the windows version, since the driver models between 2k and XP are all but identical.
Who is dividing and conquering here? Uber came in, smashed an existing industry, with its drivers seemingly quite happy to play their part. If they don't read the news to learn that work has been going on for several years on autonomous self-driving vehicles, that's really their fault.
Technology and automation has been destroying occupations for thousands of years. Do you think all those Medieval scribes put out of work by Gutenberg's press were victims of some grand conspiracy?
Blah blah blah. Libertarianism is an idealized model like anarchism and communism. You don't need Libertarianism to defend against tyranny, you just need liberal democracy with a division of powers to make sure no one ever gets the whole pie.
They spread out the cost. And subsidies of one form or another have been critical to creating infrastructure. Last mile phone service wouldn't exist without real or effective subsidies, even if it is just right aways.
Yeah, that does suck. It's why I'm so nervous about using newer products while they're, well, new. I've done some re-plumbing with PEX pipes, and I know they're old school now, but to be honest with you, part of my still prefers good old fashioned copper for the water lines and ABS for the sewer. They're tried and true, and providing you know how to sweat a fitting, copper will last for years. But it is pricier.
Yes, but it will cost the Koch Brothers money, so therefore it is evil and must be destroyed. Nothing must ever stand between billionaires and their petro-revenue. Such actions constitute terrorism of the highest degree.
That's why you have commands like awk, sed and even Perl which can manipulate the data. Unix's philosophy is not to have one big tool that does everything, but rather to have a suite of smaller tools each with a restricted set of discrete functions. This isn't a capability difference, it is a completely different philosophy on how CLI toolkits should work, and I would remind you that this philosophy has been in use for over forty years, and its merits have been proven time and time again. If you need to alter the output of one tool before passing it on to another, you have a number of commands that will do the job.
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And with Metro onward, Microsoft also has introduced an XML configuration structure as well. Maybe for Joe and Jane Average running Windows 10 Home, as long as they're not interested in anything beyond the sparest kind of modifications that the increasingly simplified and unconfigurable Settings system makes available, Windows remains a simpler system, but for those administering AD domains and the like, it can be an incredibly complex environment. Our recent fun with configuring default applications on domain members, which amounts to configuring a custom XML file to roll out default app changes, shows that things are getting more complicated for any kind of complex administration.
And that's counting on something not going wrong. The printer subsystem in Windows, in my view, has become much more error prone and much less stable than in earlier versions of Windows. Getting rid of old drivers, or in some cases event trying to get rid of phantom printers often involves shutting the Spooler service down, and manually deleting printer entries both from the spooler directory and from the registry, and even then, we've had old phantom connections just spontaneously reappear, even where a member workstation has been moved to an entirely different GPO.
Windows reached a kind of peak of stability and usability with Windows XP and Server 2003. Things weren't perfect, but in general both workstations and servers tended to function in predictable ways that, at worst, you could at least configure around. But even with Server 2008 there were already signs, like IIS configuration nightmares, that stability was no longer a prime objective. Beyond the most basic usage scenarios, Windows can be a nightmare, particularly when things go wrong.
Windows has just as many obstacles if you want to go beyond defaults. I can't begin to count the number of times I've been pushed into the registry or local policies to make a change or fix something.
Firefox only works marginally better. Most of the problems came with the last major update for the Nexus 7 (2012), which was, as I recall, Kit Kat. At any rate, everything I've learned suggests slower flash memory is a big culprit.
Well, whatever advantages of the new Android version, I'm still getting app updates for the Google apps like Drive on my Nexus 7 (2012). Mind you, the Chrome updates over the last year or so have made the tablet largely useless for browsing, though I still use it as an ereader and can watch Netflix on it.
That's because they actually lived under Fascist governments. But the term has lost all meaning in the intervening period of time. Basically, any real or perceived government overreach is immediately declared the signs of fascism and a police state.
That's why I go with the unlocked Nexus devices. These are the reference Android installs, and the only thing they come with is the stock Google apps like Chrome, Calendar and the mail app. While Samsung may make pretty attractive hardware, I have little interest in the crapware and the odd changes they make to the UI and default apps.
Curse that evil SJW, Abraham Lincoln!
We live in the age of buzzwords and catchphrases which can be quickly used to categorize people without actually having to give thought to what they're saying. Words like "neocon", "fascist", "SJW", and "neo-liberal" all have very little meaning, but assist the simple mind, though sadly it is often to assist them in creating a faulty model of the world around them.
You don't care if humanity dies? Why? So you can keep burning gasoline. It's hard sometimes with comments like these to figure out whether people like you are sociopaths or just petulant children.
What you're making ear is that you have no idea what "mean" means
Perhaps Google is getting too powerful, but one thing is clear, Oracle has been too powerful for far too long, and if it takes the up-and-coming Godzilla to defeat one of the Old Dark Ones, then so be it.
As to regulating search, just don't use Google search or any Google products. It's not like Bing doesn't exist, or other companies don't make search engines. Regulating search, at least in the limited purview of "right to be forgotten" nonsense in Europe, has demonstrated how bad regulation could become. Much better that you simply invoke the consumer's right, and don't use Google products.
Oh bullshit. Oracle lost because Oracle never had a fucking case.
Christ, Microsoft shills is one thing, but defending one of the most vile tech companies that ever existed, gimme a break. Every time Oracle gets shafted, an angel gets its wings.
The courts disagreed.
Scanners have been one of the biggest rip offs in the Windows update game. I had a very good flatbed scanner I had inherited that worked as late as Windows 2000, but when I upgraded to XP, for some reason I couldn't get the drivers to work properly. I managed to get it working properly once, and when I rebooted, it wouldn't see the scanner any more. I came to the conclusion that the drivers themselves must be checking out the windows version, since the driver models between 2k and XP are all but identical.
Who is dividing and conquering here? Uber came in, smashed an existing industry, with its drivers seemingly quite happy to play their part. If they don't read the news to learn that work has been going on for several years on autonomous self-driving vehicles, that's really their fault.
Technology and automation has been destroying occupations for thousands of years. Do you think all those Medieval scribes put out of work by Gutenberg's press were victims of some grand conspiracy?
I didn't exactly hear a lot of tears being shed by Uber drivers over the cab drivers being put out of work.
Blah blah blah. Libertarianism is an idealized model like anarchism and communism. You don't need Libertarianism to defend against tyranny, you just need liberal democracy with a division of powers to make sure no one ever gets the whole pie.
Uber drivers had their brief period of glory, having done heavy damage to the taxi cab industry. Now they'll suffer the same fate.
They spread out the cost. And subsidies of one form or another have been critical to creating infrastructure. Last mile phone service wouldn't exist without real or effective subsidies, even if it is just right aways.
Yeah, that does suck. It's why I'm so nervous about using newer products while they're, well, new. I've done some re-plumbing with PEX pipes, and I know they're old school now, but to be honest with you, part of my still prefers good old fashioned copper for the water lines and ABS for the sewer. They're tried and true, and providing you know how to sweat a fitting, copper will last for years. But it is pricier.
No, they're capitalists. They just manipulate Libertarians, who tend to be rather useful idiots.
Will bash under Windows actually allow access to WMI objects?
What about programs like xmllint?
Yes, but it will cost the Koch Brothers money, so therefore it is evil and must be destroyed. Nothing must ever stand between billionaires and their petro-revenue. Such actions constitute terrorism of the highest degree.
That's why you have commands like awk, sed and even Perl which can manipulate the data. Unix's philosophy is not to have one big tool that does everything, but rather to have a suite of smaller tools each with a restricted set of discrete functions. This isn't a capability difference, it is a completely different philosophy on how CLI toolkits should work, and I would remind you that this philosophy has been in use for over forty years, and its merits have been proven time and time again. If you need to alter the output of one tool before passing it on to another, you have a number of commands that will do the job.