That's the computer put out by Edge, that guy in U2, right?
Obviously. Did you think it was a coincidence that the Windows 10 forced upgrades were basically just a shittier variation of an unpopular U2 album release?
The main problem with "Edgebook" is the lack of brand recognition for "Edge". Mind you, with Microsoft it can sometimes be a good thing that people don't associate a product with their existing stuff.
Personally, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't double-down on the tone-deafness and call it the "Bingbook"...
But arguable robots.txt should not be a way to retroactively mark previously archived content as inaccessible.
Exactly. The policy where someone with no interest in a site (i.e. takeovers, lapsed domains, etc) can retroactive wipe all archives with just a couple lines in a config is flat-out wrong.
Ignoring robots.txt entirely, though, is a bad idea. Some sites use it to block archiving, sure, but some others use it to tell robots to avoid places where they'll never return from. There's a case for ignoring "Disallow:/", or anything that's significantly different from what, say, the Google search indexer is allowed to see.
I can definitely understand that sort of reaction for developers, especially if you're talking about small open source projects... those are projects which usually scratch the itch of the developer, so feature requests are definitely going to be an uphill battle if they aren't interesting to the developer (for some definition of "interesting" which might mean "actually useful", "fun to code/play with", "that code is shit and needs refactoring anyways", "suggestion in the form of a patch/pull request", etc).
I think users see software development effort as zero sum; if someone is working on a feature they aren't interested in, then someone isn't working on other stuff they think is important. It's a well-known phenomenon that often comes up when someone talks about the complexity of Microsoft Excel (in the form of the 90-10 rule)... users don't see the bigger picture and only care about their own workflow and how changes impact them.
The easy solution is to simply not give a crap about the opinions of other users of whatever software you use. They don't have your best interests in mind either.
Could be worse. Step 3 could be "get paid to write some pointless crap for Office 365 while a completely different team writes a shittier version of pointless App that doesn't do half the stuff that pointless App did in the first place."
Microsoft has shown an amazing ability lately to take the Golden Goose, kill it, throw it in the oven and then render it into a greasy pile of charcoal. Granted, they're no Yahoo! or Oracle, but they've got the touch.
How did so many people think this was a bright idea?
There's a lot of people out there who seem to think that the more money they spend on a "health product", the healthier they'll be.
I... honestly don't know how these people seem to have the disposable income to pay for this stuff. You'd think they'd have been fleeced and left in a cycle of poverty shortly after moving out of their parents home...
Only hours after the announcement, corporations all over America started hiring lawyers to find new loopholes in the law.
Given the "swamp draining" skills Trump's shown so far, I'm expecting that he's going to outsource the implementation and enforcement of the H1B program to an Indian corporation...
Yeah, I/O isn't blazing, but the Neo's are quite adequate for the workloads I use it for (some of which I've migrated from wifi routers using optware+USB keys, so the bar is quite low). OctoPrint works decently. YMMV, of course, but that's why it's nice to have a broad ecosystem of Pi-like devices rather than just a bunch of pin-for-pin clones.
I wouldn't use the FriendlyElec products for something like a media server; get a proper Pi for that stuff.
A Pi clone is just a cheaper Pi. Nothing we really haven't seen before.
Now, FriendlyElec's Neo series is a bit more interesting... 40mm x 40mm, no GPU... sort of a riff on the Pi Zero, but not a slavish clone and with more port options (ethernet/full-USB on one, WiFi/camera on another, etc). I've got a couple of them running around the house in places a Pi would be overkill, but a Pi Zero would require extra components.
This is not a choice between lives and profit, we can have both.
Sure. Really, I honestly do wish you folks the best of luck with your great Hobbesian experiment... and please don't export it to the rest of the world.
Having a desktop that's identical to a phone has some good points. Sounds good on paper. It's not like it doesn't have any merit at all. But it's a bloody terrible idea.
Unity was introduced as a lightweight out-of-the-way window manager for Ubuntu Netbook Remix version, and on a small screen netbook it was actually quite brilliant compared to the alternatives. The concept of maximizing the menu into the title bar and merging it with the status bar *really* saved a lot of space on a small screen, and auto-maximizing windows is somewhat necessary too.
The concept just doesn't scale so well to dual 24" monitors, although I think most people have kind of gotten used to it.
The main problem I find is that behind Unity, there's a lot of useless Gnome shit still burning cycles...
... it makes absolutely no sense for Microsoft to keep trying to exist in a space in which they have proven that they cannot compete. It's just costing them money.
Maybe there's some sort of weird tax loophole... you know, stuff like claiming all their profits in Ireland and keeping a bunch of R&D money sinks in the US so they can transfer profits back without incurring US taxes...
At this point, operating mobile at a loss can't be accidental...
It would help their narrative if they make it sound like all the competitors are ready to fail at any moment.
Yeah, instead it's just giving competitors an opportunity to fire back with a "well, it's nice that Samsung is finally taking battery testing as seriously as we've been all along..."
Immediately after making a massive fuck up in a particular field isn't really the time to publicly tout your expertise in that field. It takes a bit of time to demonstrate that you've actually learned from your mistake and haven't repeated it.
I might be, yeah. Not too many people have fond feelings about airlines, and I'm sure even the most stay-at-home politician has had some poor experiences.
But seeing what's happening right now, I'm inclined to treat any pro-consumer legislation actually passing in the USA as a complete fluke.
Bottom line, I guess: PulseAudio in 2017 _just effin' works_. Save yourself some time, skip the whining and bitching, get with the times and install it already.
Yeah, we did, because users apparently need Firefox to play sound.
Now we need to figure out why some of our systems are bogging down or completely freezing.
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but you might have reversed the words "effin' works"...
It is now, because someone actually tried to use it as a dump. Just ask some locals; I missed that particular pissing contest, but people were still pretty bent out of shape about it when I lived there 15 years ago.
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Obviously. Did you think it was a coincidence that the Windows 10 forced upgrades were basically just a shittier variation of an unpopular U2 album release?
The main problem with "Edgebook" is the lack of brand recognition for "Edge". Mind you, with Microsoft it can sometimes be a good thing that people don't associate a product with their existing stuff.
Personally, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't double-down on the tone-deafness and call it the "Bingbook"...
The evidence is that they don't appear to have been cutting the meat from the bones with sharp tools.
That's not the same thing as "killed a mastadon" or even "didn't eat any of the meat".
Exactly. The policy where someone with no interest in a site (i.e. takeovers, lapsed domains, etc) can retroactive wipe all archives with just a couple lines in a config is flat-out wrong.
Ignoring robots.txt entirely, though, is a bad idea. Some sites use it to block archiving, sure, but some others use it to tell robots to avoid places where they'll never return from. There's a case for ignoring "Disallow: /", or anything that's significantly different from what, say, the Google search indexer is allowed to see.
I can definitely understand that sort of reaction for developers, especially if you're talking about small open source projects... those are projects which usually scratch the itch of the developer, so feature requests are definitely going to be an uphill battle if they aren't interesting to the developer (for some definition of "interesting" which might mean "actually useful", "fun to code/play with", "that code is shit and needs refactoring anyways", "suggestion in the form of a patch/pull request", etc).
I think users see software development effort as zero sum; if someone is working on a feature they aren't interested in, then someone isn't working on other stuff they think is important. It's a well-known phenomenon that often comes up when someone talks about the complexity of Microsoft Excel (in the form of the 90-10 rule)... users don't see the bigger picture and only care about their own workflow and how changes impact them.
The easy solution is to simply not give a crap about the opinions of other users of whatever software you use. They don't have your best interests in mind either.
Could be worse. Step 3 could be "get paid to write some pointless crap for Office 365 while a completely different team writes a shittier version of pointless App that doesn't do half the stuff that pointless App did in the first place."
Microsoft has shown an amazing ability lately to take the Golden Goose, kill it, throw it in the oven and then render it into a greasy pile of charcoal. Granted, they're no Yahoo! or Oracle, but they've got the touch.
There's a lot of people out there who seem to think that the more money they spend on a "health product", the healthier they'll be.
I... honestly don't know how these people seem to have the disposable income to pay for this stuff. You'd think they'd have been fleeced and left in a cycle of poverty shortly after moving out of their parents home...
Given the "swamp draining" skills Trump's shown so far, I'm expecting that he's going to outsource the implementation and enforcement of the H1B program to an Indian corporation...
Yeah, I/O isn't blazing, but the Neo's are quite adequate for the workloads I use it for (some of which I've migrated from wifi routers using optware+USB keys, so the bar is quite low). OctoPrint works decently. YMMV, of course, but that's why it's nice to have a broad ecosystem of Pi-like devices rather than just a bunch of pin-for-pin clones.
I wouldn't use the FriendlyElec products for something like a media server; get a proper Pi for that stuff.
A Pi clone is just a cheaper Pi. Nothing we really haven't seen before.
Now, FriendlyElec's Neo series is a bit more interesting... 40mm x 40mm, no GPU... sort of a riff on the Pi Zero, but not a slavish clone and with more port options (ethernet/full-USB on one, WiFi/camera on another, etc). I've got a couple of them running around the house in places a Pi would be overkill, but a Pi Zero would require extra components.
That's kinda what the comments section is for, don't you think?
I mean, we know that most tech articles on Slashdot are bullshit. The comments are where the bullshit gets composted.
Sure. Really, I honestly do wish you folks the best of luck with your great Hobbesian experiment... and please don't export it to the rest of the world.
What's threatening the US health care system is putting profit ahead of lives.
Good luck. You poor saps are going to need a lot of it.
Unity was introduced as a lightweight out-of-the-way window manager for Ubuntu Netbook Remix version, and on a small screen netbook it was actually quite brilliant compared to the alternatives. The concept of maximizing the menu into the title bar and merging it with the status bar *really* saved a lot of space on a small screen, and auto-maximizing windows is somewhat necessary too.
The concept just doesn't scale so well to dual 24" monitors, although I think most people have kind of gotten used to it.
The main problem I find is that behind Unity, there's a lot of useless Gnome shit still burning cycles...
It varies. In the towns around my area, $2-$3 is typical. A bus ride in Toronto costs at least $3/ride for an adult.
But keep in mind that this is closer to a cab ride than a bus ride...
Maybe there's some sort of weird tax loophole... you know, stuff like claiming all their profits in Ireland and keeping a bunch of R&D money sinks in the US so they can transfer profits back without incurring US taxes...
At this point, operating mobile at a loss can't be accidental...
... these changes aren't expected to have any impact on Twitter's overall signal-to-noise ratio.
Well, I'll give this better odds of success than a Windows Phone flagship...
Yeah, instead it's just giving competitors an opportunity to fire back with a "well, it's nice that Samsung is finally taking battery testing as seriously as we've been all along..."
Immediately after making a massive fuck up in a particular field isn't really the time to publicly tout your expertise in that field. It takes a bit of time to demonstrate that you've actually learned from your mistake and haven't repeated it.
I might be, yeah. Not too many people have fond feelings about airlines, and I'm sure even the most stay-at-home politician has had some poor experiences.
But seeing what's happening right now, I'm inclined to treat any pro-consumer legislation actually passing in the USA as a complete fluke.
"US Lawmakers Solicit Campaign Donations From Airlines"
It's not going to pass. There'll be a storm of lobbying activity and the proposal will quietly die at the bottom of a drawer somewhere...
Yeah, we did, because users apparently need Firefox to play sound.
Now we need to figure out why some of our systems are bogging down or completely freezing.
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but you might have reversed the words "effin' works"...
Hi, great to hear from you. Sounds like you're having fun in your travels.
Hopefully you can use your time in jail for something useful; I suggest taking a remedial writing course.
Your loving son.
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It is now, because someone actually tried to use it as a dump. Just ask some locals; I missed that particular pissing contest, but people were still pretty bent out of shape about it when I lived there 15 years ago.
I think in this case "Plan B" was shipping the garbage to Michigan. Although many people would be okay shipping Toronto there too.