Arrogance, inexperience and general stupidity are plenty of explanation. This is not the first time people think they can do better and ultimately fail. In fact, that happen all the time in the tech-world. Usually these "improvements" get ignored in the Linux-world tough.
No, he is not. Of course, to systemd-apologists it will look at it that way, because they do not think users have the right to do their own simple init-scripts. But to actual UNIX users writing their own init-scripts is nothing special.
The problem here is that the systemd-people are trying an MS-like strategy to make it impossible to swap it out: They try to replace everything else they can get their hands on and they try to sabotage whatever else they can so it does not run without systemd anymore. If these were decent people and they were just providing an alternate init-system, I would have absolutely not problem with this and just ignore it. But this embrace-extend-extinguish approach is utterly evil and marks this as a hostile takeover that will benefit nobody. There are not even any good technical reasons for this. I can only guess that they want their stuff to be the one true "does everything" because of pure ego.
"If it is not broken, do not fix it." That and KISS is something the systemd-team is too stupid, too inexperienced and too arrogant to understand. Or they are just riding over it because they believe they are god's gift to Linux. They are not. They are a force of destruction, exactly because they fight choice, compatibility, simplicity and reliability. Sure, in some situations their approach may make sense, but that means systemd should be a specialized init-system (and nothing else) for specific situations. If anything, the systemd strategy reminds me strongly of all the ways Microsoft is now trying to push Win10.
The problem is that you cannot fully get rid of systemd in Debian. At the moment, this is not so much an issue, but given the history of aggressively destroying and replacing anything they can get their hands on, it is a good guess that the systemd-mob is not done yet and that they will attempt more sabotage of infrastructure that used to work fine.
While I have used current Debian mostly decontaminated from Poettering-infestation up to now (the broken startup process is easy to remove, but some cruft is still around), I think I will move completely over to this. Why people fall for "new = better" even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is beyond me.
And that is spot on. With, say, 500 million people on this dirtball, there would not be any global climate problems. Yet the world population continues to grow. My guess is this will continue until conditions are so bad that fertility drops extremely. Of course, life will not be pleasant an any way anymore when that point is reached.
I mean the human race cannot even control its carbon emission, despite having known about the problem for more than 30 years now and despite alternatives being known. Get that sorted and then maybe we can talk about large-scale geo-engineering. As a technological civilization, this one is still in its infancy and geo-engineering that matters is well beyond reach.
Otherwise I wil continue to have zero interest in the Win10 spyware. Next up: The ability to block updates forever or my interest will still be very low indeed.
Just not in good ways. The best they can contribute is to not make things worse, although that takes an exceptionally good politician. On the side of making things worse, they sometimes have tremendous potential and accomplishments. Just look at Trump, Erdogan, Orban, Johnson, etc. for a really long list of politicians making things a lot worse and sometimes giving away their peoples future, all because of ego, religious fanaticism, general stupidity and so on.
So while politicians can shape the future, it is really, _really_ important to prevent them from doing it.
Quantum-"computing" is not progress. It is a scam that may never work and will not work for any meaningful tasks anytime soon. Perfect for MS and Rambus, as the two companies have long end extensive experience with ripping off their customers.
Indeed. Like most of Quantum-"Computing" these days. Call me again when they can break RSA-300 or so, which was broken by conventional computers quite a while ago. The thing is, the number of entangled qbits seem to have been growing sub-linear with time. May well be that quantum computers scale inverse exponentially with effort, and that would mean somewhere is a border where you just cannot get more and that one seems to be pretty low. There may also be an actual hard boundary that no amount of effort can overcome. Hence, a few hundred qbits may be all that is possible in this universe. That is basically worthless.
Actually, the D-Wave is not faster than a conventional computer that is orders of magnitude cheaper. Simply use the best algorithm for each architecture. The only situation where the D-Wave is faster is if the conventional computer simulates the D-Wave. That does not make any sense, except as a marketing stunt for the gullible.
Global warming and that a large part of it is human-made is a solidly established scientific fact. This is not a matter for amateur opinions. You might as well claim the world is flat and have about the same level of insight. Obviously, you are one of those that never managed to take anything worthwhile out of your educational opportunities.
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Is this for people that confuse the box with what is in the box? A computer case cannot be "Linux hardware".
Very much so. In particular as this problem has been identified a long, long time ago and nothing has been done.
Ah yes, replacing something simple with something complicated. The hallmark of atrociously bad engineering.
For variable values of "full". But I see you have swallowed the propaganda wholesale. There is no hope for you.
Canned nonsense response from one of the purveyors of fine stupid as always.
Classical fallacy. Just shows you are stupid. People like you are the ones that replaced water with Gatorade in "Idiocracy".
Arrogance, inexperience and general stupidity are plenty of explanation. This is not the first time people think they can do better and ultimately fail. In fact, that happen all the time in the tech-world. Usually these "improvements" get ignored in the Linux-world tough.
No, he is not. Of course, to systemd-apologists it will look at it that way, because they do not think users have the right to do their own simple init-scripts. But to actual UNIX users writing their own init-scripts is nothing special.
The problem here is that the systemd-people are trying an MS-like strategy to make it impossible to swap it out: They try to replace everything else they can get their hands on and they try to sabotage whatever else they can so it does not run without systemd anymore. If these were decent people and they were just providing an alternate init-system, I would have absolutely not problem with this and just ignore it. But this embrace-extend-extinguish approach is utterly evil and marks this as a hostile takeover that will benefit nobody. There are not even any good technical reasons for this. I can only guess that they want their stuff to be the one true "does everything" because of pure ego.
"If it is not broken, do not fix it." That and KISS is something the systemd-team is too stupid, too inexperienced and too arrogant to understand. Or they are just riding over it because they believe they are god's gift to Linux. They are not. They are a force of destruction, exactly because they fight choice, compatibility, simplicity and reliability. Sure, in some situations their approach may make sense, but that means systemd should be a specialized init-system (and nothing else) for specific situations. If anything, the systemd strategy reminds me strongly of all the ways Microsoft is now trying to push Win10.
The problem is that you cannot fully get rid of systemd in Debian. At the moment, this is not so much an issue, but given the history of aggressively destroying and replacing anything they can get their hands on, it is a good guess that the systemd-mob is not done yet and that they will attempt more sabotage of infrastructure that used to work fine.
While I have used current Debian mostly decontaminated from Poettering-infestation up to now (the broken startup process is easy to remove, but some cruft is still around), I think I will move completely over to this. Why people fall for "new = better" even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is beyond me.
And that is spot on. With, say, 500 million people on this dirtball, there would not be any global climate problems. Yet the world population continues to grow. My guess is this will continue until conditions are so bad that fertility drops extremely. Of course, life will not be pleasant an any way anymore when that point is reached.
I mean the human race cannot even control its carbon emission, despite having known about the problem for more than 30 years now and despite alternatives being known. Get that sorted and then maybe we can talk about large-scale geo-engineering. As a technological civilization, this one is still in its infancy and geo-engineering that matters is well beyond reach.
I mean, either this is illegal and they should be, or this is perfectly legal, then the complaint has no merit. Which one is it?
Women are better at fraud too! They just seem to not know when to cut and run....
People do not learn from history. Most do not even learn from personal experience.
Otherwise I wil continue to have zero interest in the Win10 spyware. Next up: The ability to block updates forever or my interest will still be very low indeed.
Just not in good ways. The best they can contribute is to not make things worse, although that takes an exceptionally good politician. On the side of making things worse, they sometimes have tremendous potential and accomplishments. Just look at Trump, Erdogan, Orban, Johnson, etc. for a really long list of politicians making things a lot worse and sometimes giving away their peoples future, all because of ego, religious fanaticism, general stupidity and so on.
So while politicians can shape the future, it is really, _really_ important to prevent them from doing it.
Quantum-"computing" is not progress. It is a scam that may never work and will not work for any meaningful tasks anytime soon. Perfect for MS and Rambus, as the two companies have long end extensive experience with ripping off their customers.
Indeed. Like most of Quantum-"Computing" these days. Call me again when they can break RSA-300 or so, which was broken by conventional computers quite a while ago. The thing is, the number of entangled qbits seem to have been growing sub-linear with time. May well be that quantum computers scale inverse exponentially with effort, and that would mean somewhere is a border where you just cannot get more and that one seems to be pretty low. There may also be an actual hard boundary that no amount of effort can overcome. Hence, a few hundred qbits may be all that is possible in this universe. That is basically worthless.
Actually, the D-Wave is not faster than a conventional computer that is orders of magnitude cheaper. Simply use the best algorithm for each architecture. The only situation where the D-Wave is faster is if the conventional computer simulates the D-Wave. That does not make any sense, except as a marketing stunt for the gullible.
So two con-experts having decided to con their customers even more? Fits.
Global warming and that a large part of it is human-made is a solidly established scientific fact. This is not a matter for amateur opinions. You might as well claim the world is flat and have about the same level of insight. Obviously, you are one of those that never managed to take anything worthwhile out of your educational opportunities.
You miss the point.