See your points. In addition, regular users buy gadgets abroad, take 'em home, and they REQUIRE MS Windooze (not Linux, and not Mac).
This is a problem that is pervasive, and its name is "Microsoft Power". Why can't the Brother network printer/scanner just work? Because it was developed _for_ MS. Brother was nice enough to release their own Linux drivers, but these are not compatible with CUPS. So I find the printer in CUPS, and though it _spools_ print jobs it never gets around to actually printing them...
I think Linux is great, and if OEM and hardware manufacturers could see this they could potentially use Linux-support as a PR measure. I think Valve's Linux endorsement is interesting, that will lead to some benefit for gamers, and _hopefully_ raise an interest in hardware manufacturers to support us.
(Btw, I sit in 2nd line tech support and more and more people from all walks of life say that know or use Linux on one of their computers. Usually, it's their Windows or OSX machine that needs support:)
Unity is not Gnome 3. I currently use Fedora 17 (Gnome 3) which is a world of difference.
However, the thing that makes Gnome 3 worthwhile is extensions. Did you try http://extensions.gnome.org? You find the extension you like and click the ON button. No authentication or package downloads. I think this is where the power of Gnome3 comes to show = e.g. you can disable all the fancy fluff with simple CSS.
You could say that Gnome 3 should have sane defaults instead of relying on users installing 5 extensions at the end of installing the OS. And I totally agree.
Sorry, I was having a bad day, did not mean to offend! My point was more along the lines of: super powers shouldn't necessarily be allowed to be super powers. So a normative rather than a descriptive judgment:)
Citystate democracy (where it existed) in Ancient Greece depended, in huge strokes, on 2 factors: virtually no class divides and small populations. Super powers inevitably grow to become monsters..
The US is a very young child. American state of the art scientific experiments keep affirming the thesis of continental philosophy that spans 2000+ years. (Which arguably travelled from the East.)
To be fair, we should wait at least a millennium before passing judgment on the American outlook.
(I do think, though, we will see USA become SA within 150 years.)
The person in HR has NOT spent any time in development.
Go for assembly or perl. Add some buzzwords like ruby/rails that HR has been told to look for. Don't accept jobs where you won't survive at least a year (resume). Be nice but professional.
It isn't a construct inasmuch as activity is a construction. Meaningful does not necessarily mean the "great goals" you mention:)
I find it meaningful to run, for instance. Not because I'm in great shape or enjoy working out, but it feels right somehow. And when stuff feels right, stuff happens in my brain that makes me happy. Is it meaningful in the "constructed" sense you mentioned? Not at all (unless counterfactually I'm a great runner winning a prize, status etc.)
But I'm way off topic. I was merely pointing out that you presuppose meaning by saying that our lives are completely meaningless. If we think of it in terms of _what exists_ then _every existing thing_ exists just as much; and in that sense, every part of the universe is equally meaningful.
The four freedoms is such an attempt. And better, because it isn't particular.
On the top of my head, I can name at least two times spam mail, for instance, have saved lives. (Japan earthquake, Arab spring.) And will save lives: codes messages in surveillance society.
Your life may be meaningless, mine is not. That aside, while our lives may be meaningless in this scale, it doesn't mean that we are meaningless. Every part is equally a part of the universe.
We have one in our test lab. It is horrendously similar to the Unity interface, in that it doesn't really work. Thankfully, you have a regular desktop underneath. If you can just find it.
(Yes, it win8/unity work for some, but don't expect your 70 year old grandma to understand it. It is, to be frank, quite childish.)
In Norway you can't sell anything that is equal to or below minimum warranty.
Most businesses either don't care or claim ignorance. Apple stores generally acts as a US embassy, and argues that this somehow does not apply to them.
(Yes, I support Apple products and by extension "is employed" by Apple. In training you learn something important: Apple is designed for the USA. The rest of the world is just extra revenue.)
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Don't listen to Mogusha! He's a cuckatoo, just trying to avoid suspicion!
See your points. In addition, regular users buy gadgets abroad, take 'em home, and they REQUIRE MS Windooze (not Linux, and not Mac).
This is a problem that is pervasive, and its name is "Microsoft Power". Why can't the Brother network printer/scanner just work? Because it was developed _for_ MS. Brother was nice enough to release their own Linux drivers, but these are not compatible with CUPS. So I find the printer in CUPS, and though it _spools_ print jobs it never gets around to actually printing them...
I think Linux is great, and if OEM and hardware manufacturers could see this they could potentially use Linux-support as a PR measure. I think Valve's Linux endorsement is interesting, that will lead to some benefit for gamers, and _hopefully_ raise an interest in hardware manufacturers to support us.
(Btw, I sit in 2nd line tech support and more and more people from all walks of life say that know or use Linux on one of their computers. Usually, it's their Windows or OSX machine that needs support:)
Unity is not Gnome 3. I currently use Fedora 17 (Gnome 3) which is a world of difference.
However, the thing that makes Gnome 3 worthwhile is extensions. Did you try http://extensions.gnome.org? You find the extension you like and click the ON button. No authentication or package downloads. I think this is where the power of Gnome3 comes to show = e.g. you can disable all the fancy fluff with simple CSS.
You could say that Gnome 3 should have sane defaults instead of relying on users installing 5 extensions at the end of installing the OS. And I totally agree.
And if you can create enough computing power with your botnet, your virus can run Linux too!
Or just wait for it.. Our civilization is pretty young compared to the dead and buried..
Not in my lifetime though :P
Sorry, I was having a bad day, did not mean to offend! :)
My point was more along the lines of: super powers shouldn't necessarily be allowed to be super powers.
So a normative rather than a descriptive judgment
Citystate democracy (where it existed) in Ancient Greece depended, in huge strokes, on 2 factors: virtually no class divides and small populations. Super powers inevitably grow to become monsters..
Always thought it was way back when disks were really slow. You put swap at the end of the platter where the head rested.
I mostly use SSDs now..
Assimilated.
Well, you can always trust the powerful to fuck their own people.
But you say that like it's a good thing.
That's nothing! In Soviet Russia, capit-
Hang on a minute..
The US is a very young child. American state of the art scientific experiments keep affirming the thesis of continental philosophy that spans 2000+ years. (Which arguably travelled from the East.)
To be fair, we should wait at least a millennium before passing judgment on the American outlook.
(I do think, though, we will see USA become SA within 150 years.)
The person in HR has NOT spent any time in development.
Go for assembly or perl. Add some buzzwords like ruby/rails that HR has been told to look for. Don't accept jobs where you won't survive at least a year (resume). Be nice but professional.
If you don't know how to program, go .NET.
Unity is broken because it offers less freedom, less choices, as a result of perceiving the user as a consumer.
It takes away the sense of empowerment otherwise pervasive in *nix, adding restraints. This feeling of dynamic obstacles is worse in Unity.
I am using Gnome on FC17 atm, and am always frustrated at not doing stuff in a "correct" way, but _having to do it in a correct way.
I'm exchanging flirty glances with Slackware 14.
Sorry, I meant a 70-year old grandma who went through Windows XP and is now looking for a new PC.
KDE, LXDE and Xfce (and others) provide better alternatives than Win8.
It isn't a construct inasmuch as activity is a construction. Meaningful does not necessarily mean the "great goals" you mention:)
I find it meaningful to run, for instance. Not because I'm in great shape or enjoy working out, but it feels right somehow. And when stuff feels right, stuff happens in my brain that makes me happy. Is it meaningful in the "constructed" sense you mentioned? Not at all (unless counterfactually I'm a great runner winning a prize, status etc.)
But I'm way off topic. I was merely pointing out that you presuppose meaning by saying that our lives are completely meaningless. If we think of it in terms of _what exists_ then _every existing thing_ exists just as much; and in that sense, every part of the universe is equally meaningful.
Thanks, that really comforts me.
The other people just call me n00b but I know I am good, scraping the bottom of every FPS server out there.
Or rather, gangs of marauding war lords create governments to protect themselves from the people.
Of course, reality goes somewhere in between.
The four freedoms is such an attempt.
And better, because it isn't particular.
On the top of my head, I can name at least two times spam mail, for instance, have saved lives. (Japan earthquake, Arab spring.) And will save lives: codes messages in surveillance society.
Trust me, I'm a philosopher;)
Your life may be meaningless, mine is not. That aside, while our lives may be meaningless in this scale, it doesn't mean that we are meaningless. Every part is equally a part of the universe.
We have one in our test lab. It is horrendously similar to the Unity interface, in that it doesn't really work. Thankfully, you have a regular desktop underneath. If you can just find it.
(Yes, it win8/unity work for some, but don't expect your 70 year old grandma to understand it. It is, to be frank, quite childish.)
Actually, I do have an ICQ #.
asl?
In sum, they both apply some deep kind of ignorance to their benefit.
As usual, incompetence goes a long way.
In Norway you can't sell anything that is equal to or below minimum warranty.
Most businesses either don't care or claim ignorance. Apple stores generally acts as a US embassy, and argues that this somehow does not apply to them.
(Yes, I support Apple products and by extension "is employed" by Apple. In training you learn something important: Apple is designed for the USA. The rest of the world is just extra revenue.)
If happiness is important, do what makes you happy. Probably won't' make you rich, but at the end of my life I'd like to say that at least I lived.
Work should be fun and meaningful.
Atm, I study philosophy 100% while working every other weekend in tech support. It's fine as a temp situation.
RTFM.
"rover -d OPTION
Deploy equipment (if specified with --exec, else --test is used) from toolbox; OPTIONS are sonar, periscope, depth sensor, temp sensor (...) fishing rod"
Duh!