...what is up with the "everything about every aspect of Uber sucks" stories every other day? Either somebody's waging a coordinated media campaign against Uber, or I guess every other news outlet just randomly decided to write about Uber's failings in the last few weeks?
Why does it have to be either a "co-ordinated campaign" or "random"? Why do you preclude any other possibilities (IMNSHO, unnecessarily)?
Human nature being what it is—humans being primates, after all—I think it's highly likely to be simply "monkey see, monkey do" in action.
So if a few friends and I between us manage to set up a bakery cartel, you'll happily start paying us $30 a loaf because for you to expect anything less would be the same as if you expected a free ride? How about $40 a loaf, or even $50? You'll pay it?
Thanks! That's very encouraging, and I'll be sure to take that into consideration in my business plan.
Thank you for the fine example of something known as "false equivalence".
So if I get this right, India is making a huge income off of outsourcing, H1B, etc, working for American companies developing software and then having that income funneled back into their country,
It's not India the country or the Indian government getting rich. It's some Indian businessmen getting rich off gouging the workers they send overseas.
but they won't buy that software even at reduced educational rates? Good to see they're doing their part.
That's the government of an Indian state. Whose schools in all likelihood are not getting financed by the aforementioned businessmen.
What you're suggesting is akin to suggesting that the public schools in North Dakota naturally have more money than they know what to do with because Microsoft is an American company that makes lots of money, which is not really the case, is it?
Since it's a closed-source product, it might as well be. As if Microsoft are ever going to release anything of substance again that doesn't slurp of every bit of data about you that it can? Did you sleep through Windows 10?
In theory it's possible to use the Nvidia driver on an Optimus laptop using something called bumblebee. I seem to recall there's a successor project to that now. In either case, all the detailed info I've been able to find online about it seems to be geared towards *disabling* the Nvidia card, which seems to me to be a big "WTF?".
Your experience is the opposite of mine, then, which is that the *only* safe way to run Nouveau on a machine with an Nvidia card is to add nomodeset or acpi=OFF to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, or get used to random lockups. I've had this issue on 3 different machines (2 desktops and 1 laptop).
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See $subject. And why is this even a question?
The Slashdot AI can't tell whether you're doing that or attempting to crapflood.
...what is up with the "everything about every aspect of Uber sucks" stories every other day? Either somebody's waging a coordinated media campaign against Uber, or I guess every other news outlet just randomly decided to write about Uber's failings in the last few weeks?
Why does it have to be either a "co-ordinated campaign" or "random"? Why do you preclude any other possibilities (IMNSHO, unnecessarily)?
Human nature being what it is—humans being primates, after all—I think it's highly likely to be simply "monkey see, monkey do" in action.
Some us never liked them in the first place.
What happened to "Do one thing, and do it well"?
Spot on. No idea why this was modded down, and I can do nothing to correct that myself today.
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WFM. Shouldn't be affected by your choice of formatting options, either, AFAICT. Did you forget the trailing semicolon, maybe?
Uh, what? That wasn't even a thing until just the last few years.
Entity references are your friend. Try < next time.
So if a few friends and I between us manage to set up a bakery cartel, you'll happily start paying us $30 a loaf because for you to expect anything less would be the same as if you expected a free ride? How about $40 a loaf, or even $50? You'll pay it?
Thanks! That's very encouraging, and I'll be sure to take that into consideration in my business plan.
Thank you for the fine example of something known as "false equivalence".
So if I get this right, India is making a huge income off of outsourcing, H1B, etc, working for American companies developing software and then having that income funneled back into their country,
It's not India the country or the Indian government getting rich. It's some Indian businessmen getting rich off gouging the workers they send overseas.
but they won't buy that software even at reduced educational rates? Good to see they're doing their part.
That's the government of an Indian state. Whose schools in all likelihood are not getting financed by the aforementioned businessmen.
What you're suggesting is akin to suggesting that the public schools in North Dakota naturally have more money than they know what to do with because Microsoft is an American company that makes lots of money, which is not really the case, is it?
I'll bet you're one of those annoying people who insist on using "gift" as a verb, too.
That's good, and thanks for the info. But you could have actually said so in the first place.
I remain skeptical and suspect that MS will soon take steps to prevent this sort of thing, but we'll see what happens.
IIUC, in this particular context, it's not really a security issue.
Users can still log-in using normal Microsoft credentials (as far as I know)...
And on exactly what basis do you make this assumption?
Hm, there's doesn't seem to be a "...the fuck?" moderation, so I guess I'll save that point for another discussion.
Since it's a closed-source product, it might as well be. As if Microsoft are ever going to release anything of substance again that doesn't slurp of every bit of data about you that it can? Did you sleep through Windows 10?
Hey, look, Ma--an MS shill posting AC.
What part of "also uses India's controversial Aadhaar biometric authentication" did you not understand?
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Not to mention that Ubuntu was never a good distro... *ducks*
And that's even more retarded than the trolls put forward by the first two posters to this Thread of Shame.
That's just retarded. Google's mobile empire is built on the Linux kernel, and even MS has Linux offerings these days.
In theory it's possible to use the Nvidia driver on an Optimus laptop using something called bumblebee. I seem to recall there's a successor project to that now. In either case, all the detailed info I've been able to find online about it seems to be geared towards *disabling* the Nvidia card, which seems to me to be a big "WTF?".
Your experience is the opposite of mine, then, which is that the *only* safe way to run Nouveau on a machine with an Nvidia card is to add nomodeset or acpi=OFF to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, or get used to random lockups. I've had this issue on 3 different machines (2 desktops and 1 laptop).