You're perhaps right that it makes English less important in the political side of the EU but, as oh_my_080980980 pints out, English will continue to be the language of communication between those who need a common language in the EU as they're not going to magically cease doing business with British businesses or those affiliated with English speaking organizations. I think we can look at the airlines to disprove this chap's point. If you listen to ATC from anywhere in the world it's in English. An Iranian airline flying through Slovakian airspace will communicate with ATC in English, using feet as a measurement unit for altitude. OK, the point about feet is immaterial but it always used to bug me when the Discovery Channel replaced the original narration and translated aircraft altitude into meters, smacked of ignorance and assumption to me.
This is definitely the solution. In my home city of Birmingham in England there was a smaller scale system of tunnels called Queensway that, although scaled back in recent years, really did a good job of easing inner city traffic. They also gave me, and I'm sure many other kids, the wonderful opportunity of attempting to hold our breath all the way through. Something I wouldn't advise given the length of the tunnel in Montreal!
You know, I'm not sure this is an American problem so much. Disclaimer, this is purely an anecdotal and based on my personal experience but since moving from the UK (where I'm from) to the US about seven years ago I've noticed the opposite. I could just be lucky and have a good employer but I worked for a couple of firms back in the UK where firing was their first resort and the two companies I've worked for in the US have the opposite approach, a much more pastoral approach to employer-employee relations. As I said, this could be just me getting lucky in the US and unlucky in the UK but thought I'd chip in since I have an observation:-)
So true, I actually just interviewed a guy today who had been working from home for over a decade and had his job outsourced to South America, a fairly familiar story.
The COBOL programmers at my place are actually using it to develop new functionality that's keeping up with the financial world and actually pushing the leading edge. They've done nightly program releases since literally decades before the term "agile" was a thing. The notion that COBOL is just a legacy hold on that is in maintenance mode everywhere is also somewhat of a misconception. That's probably the case in some locations where it's providing a core business function and the rest of the infrastructure has evolved around it to patch the functions that support whatever the modern requirements are but there are plenty of people using it to create new function as well.
I attended college back in 2000, a "Multimedia" course that focused heavily on teaching us Director with the intention of sending us out into the world to create interactive CDs. It was the very tail end of the interactive CD era but I always enjoyed using Director. Shockwave games were awesome for browser-based games in the early 2000's when compared to their Flash cousins.
I think OP is referring to the speculation that Ian's Twitter may have been compromised and that it wasn't him who was posting the seemingly out of character tweets.
I spoke with some guys running the Ubuntu booth at last year's IBM Enterprise conference in Vegas. They were there to tout their System p distro and when I quizzed them on the potential of a z port I got the deer in the headlights, what are you talking about look. Now that could've just been the guys I was talking to and there may well be some z enthusiasts back at Shuttleworth Towers but from my experience they really didn't seem interested. If you're really serious about running Linux on z you most likely run SUSE (SLES), Red Hat is actually rather behind on the platform.
I remember when some video of them presenting Looking Glass at some conference and the cheers that went up when they demonstrated the rotating windows. I also remember spending a lot of time getting the LG3D WM working on some very old hardware. Fun times!
I think this is the real question. SLES is a product for servers/high uptime systems. Perhaps I'm ignorant but I don't know of many server lines that use ARM CPUs. It makes sense for them to be on x86/64, Power and z (s390x) but not much else for SLES. OpenSUSE support for as many architectures as possible is probably sensible but I'm not sure that there's need for the enterprise-class ditro to do the same.
We likely don't know the full story here. I suspect it could have gone like this:
* Someone has their phone plugged into a socket labeled 'Not for public use'.
* PCSO notices, says "Unplug the phone now or I'll call the real police on you because RULEZ!".
* Man asks reasonable question of costumed imbecile thereby challenging the tiny bit of authority costumed thug believes they have.
* Costumed tax leeches aggress against peaceful person who has harmed nobody
* Man gets rightly indignant at baseless aggression
* Higher paid costume wearers extort/kidnap for contempt of cop
In 1998 the duo started work on SNES-CD, a video game media format that was supposed to augment the cartridge-based SNES by adding support for higher-capacity CDs. In 1991 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sony introduced the "Play Station" (yes, with a space) but it never saw the light of day.
It's a lot easier to discredit the polls when most of them are run by partisan hacks who want to shape public opinion with the appearance of objectivity and independence, just like the news media.
CMR 3 may be my favorite racing game of all time (off-road category!) I agree that the series went to hell with Dirt, just as the NFS series went to hell when "Underground" came along. NFS3: HP and HP2 are two of my favorite games.
I think he's saying that if you've been swindled by the false website they'll likely publish a checksum that matches their bogus binary so even if you did do a hash comparison it wouldn't throw up a red flag because it would match the one they're providing. I think you may be assuming that people who are fooled by this have the sense to download from the fraudulent site and hop over to the official site to do a hash comparison. I suspect that's not the case!
I'm very much with you on that. It makes my life bearable given that I can't put Linux on my work lappy due to the whole full disk encryption thing they have going here (financial industry so it makes some sense). My job would be far slower using standalone tools like PuTTY. It's OK for simple SSH access and it has some lovely features for doing things like tunneling (which I use it for sometimes) but for managing a good sized environment where I'm moving stuff around and want to script things it's not really useful. I second the above complaint about the way it does key management too, not a fan of that. Another minor gripe I have is purely aesthetic. I grew up on yellow/amber phosphorus WYSE serial terminals (attached to RS6000's mostly) so I like a nice pale amber as my terminal's primary color, I also like full screen multiple tabbed terminals and though MtPuTTY is out there it's a little clunky IMO. In summary I use Cygwin with mate-terminal as my primary way of connecting to my guests (Linux on z running under z/VM) and it's the optimum way for me. Others might think differently but that's the beauty of open source!
This really seems like the 21st century equivalent of Bill Gates' infamous "Open Letter To Hobbyists". It's in the same, moaning spirit but has little of the legitimacy in its complaint. Much as I dislike Mr. Gates and his ilk his point was, at the very least, logically consistent as far as the business model for DOS went. People were sharing the OS and copying the disks which was not how the software was sold, whatever you think about the proprietary model that was the deal and people broke it. These Elementary folks seem to be bemoaning the open model that has allowed them to take the work of others, repackage it and add some of their own work to it for not being a sustainable model for recouping their investment, be it time, effort or monetary. There's a very simple solution to this, if you think that your addition truly consists of sufficient value that something free demands a charge then don't release it for free. You don't have to make the ISO or your repositories freely available, all the GPL requires is that you share the source code, perhaps as part of a paywalled download area or physical media you sell? No, that won't work though. They want to do what SkyOS failed at (except, again, with much less of their original work included) and sell something that only a minority of OS enthusiasts will take on as if it had the power and visibility of a Windows or OS X and now that it's not working they're getting bitter. Elementary OS may be a great product for the Linux newbie but with this kind of thinking in its community it's going nowhere.
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You're perhaps right that it makes English less important in the political side of the EU but, as oh_my_080980980 pints out, English will continue to be the language of communication between those who need a common language in the EU as they're not going to magically cease doing business with British businesses or those affiliated with English speaking organizations. I think we can look at the airlines to disprove this chap's point. If you listen to ATC from anywhere in the world it's in English. An Iranian airline flying through Slovakian airspace will communicate with ATC in English, using feet as a measurement unit for altitude. OK, the point about feet is immaterial but it always used to bug me when the Discovery Channel replaced the original narration and translated aircraft altitude into meters, smacked of ignorance and assumption to me.
This is definitely the solution. In my home city of Birmingham in England there was a smaller scale system of tunnels called Queensway that, although scaled back in recent years, really did a good job of easing inner city traffic. They also gave me, and I'm sure many other kids, the wonderful opportunity of attempting to hold our breath all the way through. Something I wouldn't advise given the length of the tunnel in Montreal!
You know, I'm not sure this is an American problem so much. Disclaimer, this is purely an anecdotal and based on my personal experience but since moving from the UK (where I'm from) to the US about seven years ago I've noticed the opposite. I could just be lucky and have a good employer but I worked for a couple of firms back in the UK where firing was their first resort and the two companies I've worked for in the US have the opposite approach, a much more pastoral approach to employer-employee relations. As I said, this could be just me getting lucky in the US and unlucky in the UK but thought I'd chip in since I have an observation :-)
Those people are what horns were made for :-)
So true, I actually just interviewed a guy today who had been working from home for over a decade and had his job outsourced to South America, a fairly familiar story.
The COBOL programmers at my place are actually using it to develop new functionality that's keeping up with the financial world and actually pushing the leading edge. They've done nightly program releases since literally decades before the term "agile" was a thing. The notion that COBOL is just a legacy hold on that is in maintenance mode everywhere is also somewhat of a misconception. That's probably the case in some locations where it's providing a core business function and the rest of the infrastructure has evolved around it to patch the functions that support whatever the modern requirements are but there are plenty of people using it to create new function as well.
I very much enjoy the podcast genre even though it is a rather broad spectrum. Here are my faves:-
I attended college back in 2000, a "Multimedia" course that focused heavily on teaching us Director with the intention of sending us out into the world to create interactive CDs. It was the very tail end of the interactive CD era but I always enjoyed using Director. Shockwave games were awesome for browser-based games in the early 2000's when compared to their Flash cousins.
Don't be such a pris!
Russian Terminator?
"You got a problem...you're gonna die."
Disassemble?
I think OP is referring to the speculation that Ian's Twitter may have been compromised and that it wasn't him who was posting the seemingly out of character tweets.
I spoke with some guys running the Ubuntu booth at last year's IBM Enterprise conference in Vegas. They were there to tout their System p distro and when I quizzed them on the potential of a z port I got the deer in the headlights, what are you talking about look. Now that could've just been the guys I was talking to and there may well be some z enthusiasts back at Shuttleworth Towers but from my experience they really didn't seem interested. If you're really serious about running Linux on z you most likely run SUSE (SLES), Red Hat is actually rather behind on the platform.
I remember when some video of them presenting Looking Glass at some conference and the cheers that went up when they demonstrated the rotating windows. I also remember spending a lot of time getting the LG3D WM working on some very old hardware. Fun times!
CICS Initial Release: 1968.
Unix Initial Release: 1969 (internal to Bell Labs) 1973 (external).
I think this is the real question. SLES is a product for servers/high uptime systems. Perhaps I'm ignorant but I don't know of many server lines that use ARM CPUs. It makes sense for them to be on x86/64, Power and z (s390x) but not much else for SLES. OpenSUSE support for as many architectures as possible is probably sensible but I'm not sure that there's need for the enterprise-class ditro to do the same.
Or to reframe without the authority worship:
We likely don't know the full story here. I suspect it could have gone like this:
* Someone has their phone plugged into a socket labeled 'Not for public use'.
* PCSO notices, says "Unplug the phone now or I'll call the real police on you because RULEZ!".
* Man asks reasonable question of costumed imbecile thereby challenging the tiny bit of authority costumed thug believes they have.
* Costumed tax leeches aggress against peaceful person who has harmed nobody
* Man gets rightly indignant at baseless aggression
* Higher paid costume wearers extort/kidnap for contempt of cop
In 1998 the duo started work on SNES-CD, a video game media format that was supposed to augment the cartridge-based SNES by adding support for higher-capacity CDs. In 1991 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Sony introduced the "Play Station" (yes, with a space) but it never saw the light of day.
I think the first year should read "1988" no?
It's a lot easier to discredit the polls when most of them are run by partisan hacks who want to shape public opinion with the appearance of objectivity and independence, just like the news media.
CMR 3 may be my favorite racing game of all time (off-road category!) I agree that the series went to hell with Dirt, just as the NFS series went to hell when "Underground" came along. NFS3: HP and HP2 are two of my favorite games.
Yep, I use it daily in z/VM!
I think he's saying that if you've been swindled by the false website they'll likely publish a checksum that matches their bogus binary so even if you did do a hash comparison it wouldn't throw up a red flag because it would match the one they're providing. I think you may be assuming that people who are fooled by this have the sense to download from the fraudulent site and hop over to the official site to do a hash comparison. I suspect that's not the case!
I'm very much with you on that. It makes my life bearable given that I can't put Linux on my work lappy due to the whole full disk encryption thing they have going here (financial industry so it makes some sense). My job would be far slower using standalone tools like PuTTY. It's OK for simple SSH access and it has some lovely features for doing things like tunneling (which I use it for sometimes) but for managing a good sized environment where I'm moving stuff around and want to script things it's not really useful. I second the above complaint about the way it does key management too, not a fan of that. Another minor gripe I have is purely aesthetic. I grew up on yellow/amber phosphorus WYSE serial terminals (attached to RS6000's mostly) so I like a nice pale amber as my terminal's primary color, I also like full screen multiple tabbed terminals and though MtPuTTY is out there it's a little clunky IMO. In summary I use Cygwin with mate-terminal as my primary way of connecting to my guests (Linux on z running under z/VM) and it's the optimum way for me. Others might think differently but that's the beauty of open source!
I feel the same way. If it supported TN3270 I might consider it...maybe.
This really seems like the 21st century equivalent of Bill Gates' infamous "Open Letter To Hobbyists". It's in the same, moaning spirit but has little of the legitimacy in its complaint. Much as I dislike Mr. Gates and his ilk his point was, at the very least, logically consistent as far as the business model for DOS went. People were sharing the OS and copying the disks which was not how the software was sold, whatever you think about the proprietary model that was the deal and people broke it. These Elementary folks seem to be bemoaning the open model that has allowed them to take the work of others, repackage it and add some of their own work to it for not being a sustainable model for recouping their investment, be it time, effort or monetary. There's a very simple solution to this, if you think that your addition truly consists of sufficient value that something free demands a charge then don't release it for free. You don't have to make the ISO or your repositories freely available, all the GPL requires is that you share the source code, perhaps as part of a paywalled download area or physical media you sell? No, that won't work though. They want to do what SkyOS failed at (except, again, with much less of their original work included) and sell something that only a minority of OS enthusiasts will take on as if it had the power and visibility of a Windows or OS X and now that it's not working they're getting bitter. Elementary OS may be a great product for the Linux newbie but with this kind of thinking in its community it's going nowhere.