If speeding fines were made to not just slurp up revenue, they would be done similar to Germany's system where every time one is caught, they pay the cop and go on. Eventually getting pulled over every quarter mile and paying $20-25 gets old and people start complying with the limit.
employees are free to sign contracts of employment that specify disclosure about monitoring practices just as they are free to sign contracts of employment that specify disclosure about monitoring practices. Why does either party need the nanny state to step in?
Because without the state we end up with these choices.
Everyone else being RedHat. In the long run, Wayland may become what Canonical needed after all, and Canonical may be proven wrong, or Mir may turn out to be a great Idea. We will see. Today this is far from clear, and certainly they didn't needlessly create a competitor to a Wayland that everyone already uses.
They're making incredibly unpopular design changes without giving people any real option to do things their own way and driving their own userbase away. Unity and other ass backwardsness pissed me off SO MUCH that I learned to use Arch Linux just to get away from it.
You are free to hate Unity, but what's that "without giving people any real option"? You can always apt-get any DE or WM you like, or switch to any other distro while taking your data with you. Options galore.
Good for me. I was once afraid that I'd become dispensable when I get old (i.e., any time now). Not anymore, the way we are going I'll be able to choose my jobs until I die just because I can read.
It's on AXN in Germany, a premium channel most people don't have. At least they have an English audio channel, which is usually not available when a show airs on a German channel (just adding this for those who have no first-hand experience on the horrors of dubbing on German TV).
1. That's a target date, not a commitment. If they miss it by two years, what is your recourse?
Your are changing the argument. In the post I replied to you had said, "no promise of a delivery date". The target date seems a promise of a delivery date: "expected delivery in May 2014". And what's your recourse? You could check with indiegogo.
2. Yeah, I could, couldn't I? But I only object to the commerical crowdsourced projects. If people want to ask for contributions to crowdsource something that's for the common good, I'll consider it. If they want to crowdsource a project for their own profit, where's my cut?
Your cut is to get something you want that otherwise may never see the light of day. It carries a risk like every investment.
Exactly. If app x has the option to let me send something to users in my address book (and which app hasn't), I understand that it will need access to the address book. That still does not tell me whether it will use that access to send all my contacts to its server.
That doesn't mean anything, Microsoft is not compliant with the standard.
I'm not kidding, MS dumped a bunch of lame "documentation" on the comitteee then when the committee tried to tidy up some of the incredible amounts of stupidity in it, MS just ignored them. MS has the most compliant implementation, but no full implementation exists.
I know all that, but that does not change the fact that they can't change important parts of the specs willy-nilly, like the guy I replied to suggested.
The places like the Congo (and other similar situations you'd raise) aren't actually examples of a pure libertarian or even anarchic state. The problems they face are mostly due to a high-turnover system of despotic leaders working against their own populations and/or failing to properly lead the country in general, combined with natural problems of food scarcity and a poorly-developed economy.
So they are actually exactly like a pure libertarian or even anarchic state.
I intended to write a lengthy post about how random people are not the number one threat I perceive when using may smartphone. But the AC said it with 5 words.
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If speeding fines were made to not just slurp up revenue, they would be done similar to Germany's system where every time one is caught, they pay the cop and go on. Eventually getting pulled over every quarter mile and paying $20-25 gets old and people start complying with the limit.
In Germany, you also get entries into a central register, and they will pull your license if you accrue a certain number of points. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)#Germany
employees are free to sign contracts of employment that specify disclosure about monitoring practices just as they are free to sign contracts of employment that specify disclosure about monitoring practices. Why does either party need the nanny state to step in?
Because without the state we end up with these choices.
Please share the link for the Linux binaries for these.
Read the post I replied to.
Or you could have used MS Word and PowerPoint viewer for no fee.
Everyone else being RedHat. In the long run, Wayland may become what Canonical needed after all, and Canonical may be proven wrong, or Mir may turn out to be a great Idea. We will see. Today this is far from clear, and certainly they didn't needlessly create a competitor to a Wayland that everyone already uses.
So the argument that Canonical deliberately does not use what "everyone uses" was misleading at best.
I experience pretty terrible tearing with xbmc, so at least for me X does not perform extremely well.
Who "uses" Wayland?
Please list the processes of this supposed bloat that is supposedly used to force you to keep running unity.
There will come a time when somebody can explain to me the weird shit that happens when I hit Ctrl+C Ctrl+V
They're making incredibly unpopular design changes without giving people any real option to do things their own way and driving their own userbase away. Unity and other ass backwardsness pissed me off SO MUCH that I learned to use Arch Linux just to get away from it.
You are free to hate Unity, but what's that "without giving people any real option"? You can always apt-get any DE or WM you like, or switch to any other distro while taking your data with you. Options galore.
Like the cat.
Good for me. I was once afraid that I'd become dispensable when I get old (i.e., any time now). Not anymore, the way we are going I'll be able to choose my jobs until I die just because I can read.
It's on AXN in Germany, a premium channel most people don't have. At least they have an English audio channel, which is usually not available when a show airs on a German channel (just adding this for those who have no first-hand experience on the horrors of dubbing on German TV).
1. That's a target date, not a commitment. If they miss it by two years, what is your recourse?
Your are changing the argument. In the post I replied to you had said, "no promise of a delivery date". The target date seems a promise of a delivery date: "expected delivery in May 2014". And what's your recourse? You could check with indiegogo.
2. Yeah, I could, couldn't I? But I only object to the commerical crowdsourced projects. If people want to ask for contributions to crowdsource something that's for the common good, I'll consider it. If they want to crowdsource a project for their own profit, where's my cut?
Your cut is to get something you want that otherwise may never see the light of day. It carries a risk like every investment.
The date is right there on the indiegogo page. Vaporware maybe, but you could say that for nearly every crowdsourced project.
We can safely assume that everyone wanting a Ubuntu Edge, knowing about it, and with the money for it already donated.
I'd be surprised if they make their goal (though it was a good effort anyway), no, you cannot safely assume that.
I hope at the very least all this software will be released for the current android devices they are testing on.
https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/08/want-to-try-ubuntu-touch-on-your-phone-were-almost-there/
Music.
Exactly. If app x has the option to let me send something to users in my address book (and which app hasn't), I understand that it will need access to the address book. That still does not tell me whether it will use that access to send all my contacts to its server.
That doesn't mean anything, Microsoft is not compliant with the standard.
I'm not kidding, MS dumped a bunch of lame "documentation" on the comitteee then when the committee tried to tidy up some of the incredible amounts of stupidity in it, MS just ignored them. MS has the most compliant implementation, but no full implementation exists.
I know all that, but that does not change the fact that they can't change important parts of the specs willy-nilly, like the guy I replied to suggested.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
Yeah, that sentence is one of the scariest things I've read in a while.
The places like the Congo (and other similar situations you'd raise) aren't actually examples of a pure libertarian or even anarchic state. The problems they face are mostly due to a high-turnover system of despotic leaders working against their own populations and/or failing to properly lead the country in general, combined with natural problems of food scarcity and a poorly-developed economy.
So they are actually exactly like a pure libertarian or even anarchic state.
Get real.
I intended to write a lengthy post about how random people are not the number one threat I perceive when using may smartphone. But the AC said it with 5 words.