And why precisely is that? You don't think that somewhere a design team, however it is constituted, is looking at changes to a UI, or maybe somebody just compiled with the wrong IFDEF. It strikes me as a pretty self-serving argument to say "Hey, yeah, everybody does it, but open source should be better!" Maybe they did some refactoring, figured out it was a poorly used feature and yanked it, and maybe you're usage scenario is sufficiently unique that it wasn't viewed as significant. At any rate, as with the Recent Files removal on Windows 8, there are work arounds, so use them and move on.
As a developer tool, the subsystem makes some sense. It's marginally easier than installing a Linux VM, but that's about it. I see little real advantage to it as opposed to just having VMs of various distros. With the latter, I actually have a full-blown Linux stack running on virtualized hardware. I'm only really reliant on which virtualization solution I use. It's a neat trick to see a Linux distro running on an NT subsystem, but really it offers so few advantages over a Linux VM or just an external Linux box that I can't say I've run the Ubuntu Bash shell on my Windows 10 box more than half a dozen times.
Because Microsoft has never taken away a useful feature... you know like "Recent Files" in Windows 8/8.1, and the hack was to either install third party solutions like Classic Shell, or create a link to the Recent Files folder in a File Explorer window, which showed every file you've opened since the dawn of time.
Point is that sometimes, for any number of reasons, developers change, remove or move features, and it pisses us off. The constant tinkering with the Windows 10 start menu is an example in how to drive someone crazy, but you know what, that's the name of the game for just about every piece of software, open source or proprietary, that I've ever used.
Yes, it's so darned arbitrary to try to find ways to prevent tax avoidance. And since Britain is almost certain now to remain in the Common Market, it will have to abide by the rules, but seeing as it is no longer an actual EU member, will have little or no say in those rules. 52% of Britons who voted to Brexit were either simpering morons or fooled by a pack liars.
Of course businesses can. But there are two questions to ask:
1. Is an Uber driver really a private contractor? That's an open question in a number of jurisdictions. 2. If the pay is as low as is stated, then in effect allowing Uber drivers to deduct vehicle maintenance amounts to an effective subsidy to Uber (much as Walmart keeping a lot of employees on low hour part time schedules while those employees continue to access some degree of the social safety net amounts to a subsidy for Walmart).
Which would translate into the taxpayer basically supporting Uber's business model by reducing drivers' overall taxes owing.
That's not even counting the underlying problem that at least some jurisdictions don't even buy the claim that Uber drivers are private contractors, meaning Uber is stiffing those jurisdictions in payroll taxes.
Nuclear is almost the most expensive form of power there is, and as to carbon capture, it's still largely science fiction, and even where possible, it requires a great deal of energy itself, making it significantly more expensive than fossil fuel plants that just belch their CO2 into the atmosphere.
Nonsense. He would have inserted how his hosts file utility protects against Spectre and Meltdown. And you can totally trust a guy whose website for his tool still shows Windows NT 4.0 screenshots!
Lots of people are dying in Venezuela, because all the "right" people have guns. I'd like to believe the parent's post is a bit of sarcasm, but I'm not so sure...
You understand Venezuela is broke, and oil prices are pretty low, with US producers just pumping it up regardless of anything OPEC or anyone else can do. Yes, it will be a cryptocurrency, but so what?
Indeed. With Venezuela's essentially broken economy, sustained low oil prices (with little indication of any significant rise in the near future), what does it matter whether the currency Venezuela is floating is conventional or crypto-currency?
It may not top Reservoir Dogs, but it's probably among the top five best films in the superhero genre. It's a helluva lot better than most of the Marvel films, and better than anything DC has produced in its latest iteration (though the original Superman still sits at the top of the genre, to my mind_/
Well at least you're not pretending to be an American anymore Ivan, but that's going to cost you some rubles. You'll get downgraded to calling the Ukrainian government "Nazis" at this rate. Maybe you'll get some points for the Israel comments t. We all know how much Russians hate Jews.
Thanks Ivan. It's good to know you can flip to "totally hyperbolic" when you need to. I'm sure you'll make a few extra rubles for this little exchange.
There was quite the industry selling software for home computers. For my Trash-80s, there were a couple of magazines dedicated to them, and back in they heyday of the home computer, their pages were filled with ads for software. The same for Apple II, C64 and the like. Yes, you wouldn't likely get a job with HP or IBM based on your ability to code in Microsoft BASIC, but there was quite a cottage industry in producing software and hardware for various home computer systems.
Well, that's not really true at all. I had a small library of programming books; some specific to my home computers, some general programming books (Introduction to Algorithms is still one of the great programming books of all time), not to mention generalist magazines like Byte as well as pretty much every home computer or at least line of computers having its own dedicated magazine. Yes, it wasn't as convenient as Google or Youtube, but help was there. There was also a local computer club in my town, which meant a couple of times a month, and if I was really in a bind I could usually call up one of the smarter guys, who were always happy to share their knowledge.
I mention elsewhere that my crappy TRS-80 also came with a very good manual with an excellent introduction to programming, and I know there were some very good books for programming on C64s and Apples and the like.
My first "real" program was written on the MC-10. A semi-functional Pac-man clone that used the semigraphic GET and PUT instructions. I got it to the point where I could move the "Pacman" (just a yellow block) around a maze and gobble up other blocks, but the semigraphics on the MC-10 and the Color Computers was so sucky that if a yellow block touched another colored block, it would turn it yellow. Still, as far as I got it, it was still pretty cool.
I don't know what you mean about "worth doing". I did plenty on my first home computers in BASIC; library cataloging program, simple text editor, that sort of thing. Certainly there were things that could be done far more efficiently in assembly, but it wasn't a requirement. The chief problem on my first personal computer was RAM, but within those constraints I could still quite a lot. But it wasn't so much the useful things I wrote that taught me anything, because when I first started coding I was 11 years old, so "worth doing" had a very different meaning for me in 1983 than it does in 2018. It was the underlying concepts, the very notion of programming, of understanding something of the workings of a computer, and of logic and program flow. BASIC had some bad points, but I did learn some pseudo-structured programming via GOSUB, so that when I went on to Pascal, the notion of procedures was simply a more formalized way of writing a routine.
Javascript is a necessary evil, but it is a painful and awful language glued to an equally painful and awful environment. I don't know if I would have got the same quick kick that I did out of my early BASIC programming.
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And why precisely is that? You don't think that somewhere a design team, however it is constituted, is looking at changes to a UI, or maybe somebody just compiled with the wrong IFDEF. It strikes me as a pretty self-serving argument to say "Hey, yeah, everybody does it, but open source should be better!" Maybe they did some refactoring, figured out it was a poorly used feature and yanked it, and maybe you're usage scenario is sufficiently unique that it wasn't viewed as significant. At any rate, as with the Recent Files removal on Windows 8, there are work arounds, so use them and move on.
As a developer tool, the subsystem makes some sense. It's marginally easier than installing a Linux VM, but that's about it. I see little real advantage to it as opposed to just having VMs of various distros. With the latter, I actually have a full-blown Linux stack running on virtualized hardware. I'm only really reliant on which virtualization solution I use. It's a neat trick to see a Linux distro running on an NT subsystem, but really it offers so few advantages over a Linux VM or just an external Linux box that I can't say I've run the Ubuntu Bash shell on my Windows 10 box more than half a dozen times.
Because Microsoft has never taken away a useful feature... you know like "Recent Files" in Windows 8/8.1, and the hack was to either install third party solutions like Classic Shell, or create a link to the Recent Files folder in a File Explorer window, which showed every file you've opened since the dawn of time.
Point is that sometimes, for any number of reasons, developers change, remove or move features, and it pisses us off. The constant tinkering with the Windows 10 start menu is an example in how to drive someone crazy, but you know what, that's the name of the game for just about every piece of software, open source or proprietary, that I've ever used.
Yeah, because there aren't hundreds of millions of computing devices sitting in peoples' pockets running the Linux kernel.
The real problem here, matey, is that desktops are rapidly becoming the thing of the past, and hence Microsoft being spooked.
Yes, it's so darned arbitrary to try to find ways to prevent tax avoidance. And since Britain is almost certain now to remain in the Common Market, it will have to abide by the rules, but seeing as it is no longer an actual EU member, will have little or no say in those rules. 52% of Britons who voted to Brexit were either simpering morons or fooled by a pack liars.
Of course businesses can. But there are two questions to ask:
1. Is an Uber driver really a private contractor? That's an open question in a number of jurisdictions.
2. If the pay is as low as is stated, then in effect allowing Uber drivers to deduct vehicle maintenance amounts to an effective subsidy to Uber (much as Walmart keeping a lot of employees on low hour part time schedules while those employees continue to access some degree of the social safety net amounts to a subsidy for Walmart).
Which would translate into the taxpayer basically supporting Uber's business model by reducing drivers' overall taxes owing.
That's not even counting the underlying problem that at least some jurisdictions don't even buy the claim that Uber drivers are private contractors, meaning Uber is stiffing those jurisdictions in payroll taxes.
Thanks for that, Ivan. It's always good to start out a topic on Russian interference with the mad hyperbole that comes out of a Russian troll farm.
Nuclear is almost the most expensive form of power there is, and as to carbon capture, it's still largely science fiction, and even where possible, it requires a great deal of energy itself, making it significantly more expensive than fossil fuel plants that just belch their CO2 into the atmosphere.
And don't forget the frickin laser beams.
Nonsense. He would have inserted how his hosts file utility protects against Spectre and Meltdown. And you can totally trust a guy whose website for his tool still shows Windows NT 4.0 screenshots!
Lots of people are dying in Venezuela, because all the "right" people have guns. I'd like to believe the parent's post is a bit of sarcasm, but I'm not so sure...
You understand Venezuela is broke, and oil prices are pretty low, with US producers just pumping it up regardless of anything OPEC or anyone else can do. Yes, it will be a cryptocurrency, but so what?
Indeed. With Venezuela's essentially broken economy, sustained low oil prices (with little indication of any significant rise in the near future), what does it matter whether the currency Venezuela is floating is conventional or crypto-currency?
It may not top Reservoir Dogs, but it's probably among the top five best films in the superhero genre. It's a helluva lot better than most of the Marvel films, and better than anything DC has produced in its latest iteration (though the original Superman still sits at the top of the genre, to my mind_/
I imagine the inability of third party cloud storage apps is a "flaw" that won't be fixed any time soon. Sorry Dropbox and google Drive, you're out.
Well at least you're not pretending to be an American anymore Ivan, but that's going to cost you some rubles. You'll get downgraded to calling the Ukrainian government "Nazis" at this rate. Maybe you'll get some points for the Israel comments t. We all know how much Russians hate Jews.
Thanks Ivan. It's good to know you can flip to "totally hyperbolic" when you need to. I'm sure you'll make a few extra rubles for this little exchange.
The Russians have been a significant threat since the end of the Second World War. Is there some reason you wish to minimize that?
There was quite the industry selling software for home computers. For my Trash-80s, there were a couple of magazines dedicated to them, and back in they heyday of the home computer, their pages were filled with ads for software. The same for Apple II, C64 and the like. Yes, you wouldn't likely get a job with HP or IBM based on your ability to code in Microsoft BASIC, but there was quite a cottage industry in producing software and hardware for various home computer systems.
Thanks for that Ivan. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?
Well, that's not really true at all. I had a small library of programming books; some specific to my home computers, some general programming books (Introduction to Algorithms is still one of the great programming books of all time), not to mention generalist magazines like Byte as well as pretty much every home computer or at least line of computers having its own dedicated magazine. Yes, it wasn't as convenient as Google or Youtube, but help was there. There was also a local computer club in my town, which meant a couple of times a month, and if I was really in a bind I could usually call up one of the smarter guys, who were always happy to share their knowledge.
I mention elsewhere that my crappy TRS-80 also came with a very good manual with an excellent introduction to programming, and I know there were some very good books for programming on C64s and Apples and the like.
My first "real" program was written on the MC-10. A semi-functional Pac-man clone that used the semigraphic GET and PUT instructions. I got it to the point where I could move the "Pacman" (just a yellow block) around a maze and gobble up other blocks, but the semigraphics on the MC-10 and the Color Computers was so sucky that if a yellow block touched another colored block, it would turn it yellow. Still, as far as I got it, it was still pretty cool.
I don't know what you mean about "worth doing". I did plenty on my first home computers in BASIC; library cataloging program, simple text editor, that sort of thing. Certainly there were things that could be done far more efficiently in assembly, but it wasn't a requirement. The chief problem on my first personal computer was RAM, but within those constraints I could still quite a lot. But it wasn't so much the useful things I wrote that taught me anything, because when I first started coding I was 11 years old, so "worth doing" had a very different meaning for me in 1983 than it does in 2018. It was the underlying concepts, the very notion of programming, of understanding something of the workings of a computer, and of logic and program flow. BASIC had some bad points, but I did learn some pseudo-structured programming via GOSUB, so that when I went on to Pascal, the notion of procedures was simply a more formalized way of writing a routine.
Javascript is a necessary evil, but it is a painful and awful language glued to an equally painful and awful environment. I don't know if I would have got the same quick kick that I did out of my early BASIC programming.
By "irrelevant info", you mean context. Veritas is a scam that's been debunked. You believe, you're a fucking idiot. Full stop.