It never did. That's nothing new. The only new thing is the 24x7 panic mode in the media.
In a nutshell: - Obama sold you out to insurance companies and spent 1 trillion more dollars on military than Bush while earning a Nobel Prize for peace - Bush sold you out to defense contractors and transformed the intelligence services in big brother - Clinton sold you out to big pharma and wall street and rented out his last day in office to 140 criminals who wanted a presidential pardon
and that's just the last 30 years.
As for the FCC, the previous guy was also a lobbyist for the ISP and telcos before "regulating" them. That's how it works; the Fed is controlled by Goldman Sachs, the FDA is controlled by big pharma and the chamber of commerce, etc. None of those people care about you.
Was it really useful to shoehorn "Ex-Verizon lawyer" in the title of this story? Everyone already knows that you're an Apple shill and that you're getting your marching orders from them. Maybe you could serve your masters with a little more subtlety and once in a while pretend that you're just reporting news instead of shoving your propaganda down the readers throats?
There's people here that have been reading Slashdot since before you learned to speak, show some respect and don't make it another Huffington post.
Dude, like it or not, Trump is gonna do two terms, unless he doesn't want to. No serious Democrat will go sit in the crosshair while they can be assured of an easy ride four years later. Anyways the Democrats are scattered to the four winds as it is.
You can kid yourself with that puppet show all day long if you want, but that's how it is. And I'm not saying that because I like him; if anything, I'd personally make a contribution to Sanders if I believed he had any chance against the mob that controls the Democrats. But Trump is going to do his two terms and sour grapes can't do a thing about it.
I use CentOS for my desktop. It is stable and solid and runs all the software I need, though these may not be the bleeding edge.
But mainly my clients run RHEL servers so I can do development and testing and know it will work 100% on their servers.
CentOS is not 100% the same as RHEL. For instance, try to install a recent version of docker, you'll see. But yeah, it's closer to RHEL than Fedora is. This being said, just for the fact that you get the latest kernel and version of everything, Fedora is a blessing on desktops. For instance, some Intel wifi chips have drivers that are only compatible with very recent kernels. That would not work on CentOS.
This question reveals much about the one who asks.
Well it probably reveals that I use Fedora, but I fail to see in what way this makes the discussion move forward. Or did you just have a burning desire to post that little nugget of wisdom, even if it was not really relevant to the thread?
LOL. Hope you're not your own an investment advisor.
When you reach the point where you know enough to know that you don't know much about the stock market, come back and we can talk. Until then, feel free to remain an oblivious dud.
How many times will Microsoft try (and fail) to make a successful phone before they give up and admit that they suck at making phones?
They've had about 10 different phone projects in the last few years and they've ALL failed miserably.
i don't agree. It wasn't a commercial success but I've used a Windows Phone for a while about 5 years ago and it was great. The Metro thing that sucks on desktops was working really well on a phone. Looked sharp too.
The big problem is that they kept messing around with the SDK, always releasing half-baked versions too late, and antagonizing developers will all kinds of limitations and fees. It was almost like sabotage. It's too bad because native apps using html5/js would have opened the door to a huge marketplace if they had done it right.
I think deep down he's haunted by fact that Apple - which had been so vanquished MSFT was loaning Apple money just to keep them afloat in 1998 as a antitrust argument - has turned into a bigger nastier corporate-critter than Microsoft ever was.
I'd be surprised that he would truly prefer to have built Apple than Microsoft. Apple is swimming in gold at the moment, but it's not sustainable. If you compare the profit history of both companies it's immediately obvious. In another 2-5 years Apple will reach the bottom of the barrel but Microsoft will keep printing money, like they've done since MS-DOS 3.0.
Don't be too hard on iPeople. They assume that all operating systems are crippled like OSX so it just blow their minds when they find themselves able to do crazy things like maximizing a window or not having to move their mouse half a mile to reach the menu when the window is not maximized. When you sit them in front of a normal computer they're like those kids raised by wolves that are finally rescued and can't adjust to civilized life.
It's much more about where they're designed and produced rather than ownership.
Maybe, but thanks to that ownership it makes it more convenient because now we can say "the least reliable cars are sold by Indian and Chinese companies".
I was playing with motors for a solar car project in college
I don't know why they do that instead of battle bots. A solar car race will get you 34 views on Youtube; a demolition derby of robots with flamethrowers and chainsaws will get you a sold-out event at the stadium, with a mile-long lineup, and scalpers, and ice cream vendors, and tailgate parties.
Dyson the Apple of vacuum cleaners. Most of their money is spent on creating an image and not on making vacuum cleaners.
Spot on.
Case in point: I bought a disposable Walmart chinese vacuum cleaner for the cottage and somehow it got swapped with the $500 dyson clunker that I bought for home. I don't remember how much was the Walmart one but it was cheap enough that I didn't buy extra bags.
All browsers are like that. Chrome is particularly annoying since they insist on hiding the protocol, it won't even figure out it's an ip address and will search instead.
This is not a misunderstanding about the meaning of the words, it's an instance of virtue signalling. Usually when someone throws in "offensive", you can tell it's a cunt taking the high road.
Seems like "fanboys" aren't quite what they used to be. I never classified myself as one
I never said you were one. I merely provided the other end of the spectrum to your blowjob analogy because I don't believe Apple products are at a disadvantage on Slashdot, quite the contrary.
For the record, I used to own Apple devices, just like I used to own Blackberry devices and now own Samsung devices - I go with what is the most innovative and convenient at any given time. I'm not pro or anti anything in the absolute; i even had a nice LG Windows Phone for a while and it was great.
So I've been around the block enough to notice when a brand is becoming all foam and no beer, and that's the case with Apple. Doesn't mean that I see every person who buys Apple products as a fanboi.
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this country no longer belongs to us
It never did. That's nothing new. The only new thing is the 24x7 panic mode in the media.
In a nutshell:
- Obama sold you out to insurance companies and spent 1 trillion more dollars on military than Bush while earning a Nobel Prize for peace
- Bush sold you out to defense contractors and transformed the intelligence services in big brother
- Clinton sold you out to big pharma and wall street and rented out his last day in office to 140 criminals who wanted a presidential pardon
and that's just the last 30 years.
As for the FCC, the previous guy was also a lobbyist for the ISP and telcos before "regulating" them. That's how it works; the Fed is controlled by Goldman Sachs, the FDA is controlled by big pharma and the chamber of commerce, etc. None of those people care about you.
Was it really useful to shoehorn "Ex-Verizon lawyer" in the title of this story? Everyone already knows that you're an Apple shill and that you're getting your marching orders from them. Maybe you could serve your masters with a little more subtlety and once in a while pretend that you're just reporting news instead of shoving your propaganda down the readers throats?
There's people here that have been reading Slashdot since before you learned to speak, show some respect and don't make it another Huffington post.
Dude, like it or not, Trump is gonna do two terms, unless he doesn't want to. No serious Democrat will go sit in the crosshair while they can be assured of an easy ride four years later. Anyways the Democrats are scattered to the four winds as it is.
You can kid yourself with that puppet show all day long if you want, but that's how it is. And I'm not saying that because I like him; if anything, I'd personally make a contribution to Sanders if I believed he had any chance against the mob that controls the Democrats. But Trump is going to do his two terms and sour grapes can't do a thing about it.
> but why CentOS, when there's Fedora?
I use CentOS for my desktop. It is stable and solid and runs all the software I need, though these may not be the bleeding edge.
But mainly my clients run RHEL servers so I can do development and testing and know it will work 100% on their servers.
CentOS is not 100% the same as RHEL. For instance, try to install a recent version of docker, you'll see. But yeah, it's closer to RHEL than Fedora is. This being said, just for the fact that you get the latest kernel and version of everything, Fedora is a blessing on desktops. For instance, some Intel wifi chips have drivers that are only compatible with very recent kernels. That would not work on CentOS.
This question reveals much about the one who asks.
Well it probably reveals that I use Fedora, but I fail to see in what way this makes the discussion move forward. Or did you just have a burning desire to post that little nugget of wisdom, even if it was not really relevant to the thread?
LOL. Hope you're not your own an investment advisor.
When you reach the point where you know enough to know that you don't know much about the stock market, come back and we can talk. Until then, feel free to remain an oblivious dud.
How many times will Microsoft try (and fail) to make a successful phone before they give up and admit that they suck at making phones?
They've had about 10 different phone projects in the last few years and they've ALL failed miserably.
i don't agree. It wasn't a commercial success but I've used a Windows Phone for a while about 5 years ago and it was great. The Metro thing that sucks on desktops was working really well on a phone. Looked sharp too.
The big problem is that they kept messing around with the SDK, always releasing half-baked versions too late, and antagonizing developers will all kinds of limitations and fees. It was almost like sabotage. It's too bad because native apps using html5/js would have opened the door to a huge marketplace if they had done it right.
I think deep down he's haunted by fact that Apple - which had been so vanquished MSFT was loaning Apple money just to keep them afloat in 1998 as a antitrust argument - has turned into a bigger nastier corporate-critter than Microsoft ever was.
I'd be surprised that he would truly prefer to have built Apple than Microsoft. Apple is swimming in gold at the moment, but it's not sustainable. If you compare the profit history of both companies it's immediately obvious. In another 2-5 years Apple will reach the bottom of the barrel but Microsoft will keep printing money, like they've done since MS-DOS 3.0.
I do most of my work on a PC running CentOS
I can understand not using Ubuntu, but why CentOS, when there's Fedora? That's like choosing Windows Vista over Windows 7.
Wow, you must be really fucking stupid.
Don't be too hard on iPeople. They assume that all operating systems are crippled like OSX so it just blow their minds when they find themselves able to do crazy things like maximizing a window or not having to move their mouse half a mile to reach the menu when the window is not maximized. When you sit them in front of a normal computer they're like those kids raised by wolves that are finally rescued and can't adjust to civilized life.
It's much more about where they're designed and produced rather than ownership.
Maybe, but thanks to that ownership it makes it more convenient because now we can say "the least reliable cars are sold by Indian and Chinese companies".
The world's most prominent professional racing teams are disproportionately headquartered in the UK
What, did they move the NASCAR headquarters to London?
they inherited some know-how from the British car industry
You mean like Range Rover or Lotus? *chuckles*
Anyways those are respectively Indian and Chinese manufacturers nowadays.
You do know the original Tesla roadster was based on the Lotus Elise chassis?
Makes sense. Take the Lotus car and remove everything except the bare metal of the chassis, you end up with a good Lotus car.
they inherited some know-how from the British car industry
You mean like Range Rover or Lotus? *chuckles*
Given that Tesla worked with Lotus on their Roadster, yes I imagine Lotus would be one of the companies they'd talk to.
Lotus probably make the least reliable cars since the Model T prototype.
You can turn that off obviously.
How?
I was playing with motors for a solar car project in college
I don't know why they do that instead of battle bots. A solar car race will get you 34 views on Youtube; a demolition derby of robots with flamethrowers and chainsaws will get you a sold-out event at the stadium, with a mile-long lineup, and scalpers, and ice cream vendors, and tailgate parties.
Dyson the Apple of vacuum cleaners. Most of their money is spent on creating an image and not on making vacuum cleaners.
Spot on.
Case in point: I bought a disposable Walmart chinese vacuum cleaner for the cottage and somehow it got swapped with the $500 dyson clunker that I bought for home. I don't remember how much was the Walmart one but it was cheap enough that I didn't buy extra bags.
they inherited some know-how from the British car industry
You mean like Range Rover or Lotus? *chuckles*
Anyways those are respectively Indian and Chinese manufacturers nowadays.
Thanks to the OP, we have now reached a Nash equilibrium in this story.
All browsers are like that. Chrome is particularly annoying since they insist on hiding the protocol, it won't even figure out it's an ip address and will search instead.
Yet another feature of a major browser that doesn't work on Firefox. I hope this will get resolved when they release that unified search/address bar.
code monkey ships
Now it's "code monkey planes" since they mostly use Air China.
WTF?
This is not a misunderstanding about the meaning of the words, it's an instance of virtue signalling. Usually when someone throws in "offensive", you can tell it's a cunt taking the high road.
^ people of Slashdot, that's how you can tell when someone has actual experience with AIX; the deep, ice cold hatred is a tell.
Seems like "fanboys" aren't quite what they used to be. I never classified myself as one
I never said you were one. I merely provided the other end of the spectrum to your blowjob analogy because I don't believe Apple products are at a disadvantage on Slashdot, quite the contrary.
For the record, I used to own Apple devices, just like I used to own Blackberry devices and now own Samsung devices - I go with what is the most innovative and convenient at any given time. I'm not pro or anti anything in the absolute; i even had a nice LG Windows Phone for a while and it was great.
So I've been around the block enough to notice when a brand is becoming all foam and no beer, and that's the case with Apple. Doesn't mean that I see every person who buys Apple products as a fanboi.