Browsers are not supposed to guarantee same behaviour across platforms. The entire point, the genius, of html was requiring all that presentation layer bullshit be abstracted away and left in the hands of the browser, whether it has a screen, a printer, a braille-printer or just a speaker attached, to interpret (or ignore) as appropriate.
"After all, installing software on my OS allows the software's creator to run arbitrary code on my machine!" - Again you miss the entire point to having a browser. Sure, each website could just be a binary for you to download and run on approved platforms only - that would suck, and that's why we invented the web, where both content and presentation could be abstracted and dealt with as appropriate regardless of what platform the "viewer" (who might well be blind, remember) is using to "see" it.
Hmm, I loaded the page up, I read the text, everything I wanted to work worked fine, and everything I didnt want to work... didnt. Without any fiddling. What were you saying again?
But internet sources in general carry massive amounts of it.
The major league folks are always tightly in bed with their chosen network, and make a real effort to shut down sites that help people get around them, but last time I checked (for a sports-junky friend) they werent much harder to find than other types of tv.
Personally, I am not a huge sports fan, and maybe I would feel differently if I was, but the way that all the major league balls games in the US are televised it's 98% marketing/ads and 2% sport anyway. I dont see how people stand it. I'd rather watch bootlegs of no-name teams from other countries when I get the urge to see a ballgame, because that way I will actually see a ball game instead of a marketing extravaganza with some snippets from a ballgame used to break up the commercials, but ymmv.
The funny thing is, the OTA stations dont have any more ads than the cable channels these days, so unless you have a massive appetite for TV (in which case internet options are probably better anyway) there is no reason at all for most people to get cable.
So your position is that you need to go to a judge and show evidence on which to base a warrant to go arrest someone suspected of having committed a crime, but no warrant and no oversight of any kind is needed to simply blow the guy into bits if he's suspected of being likely to commit a crime at some point in the future.
It does not limit itself to citizens and there is no textual support for that reading at all. It applies to the government - not to the people - and lays out what the government is authorised to do, what it is not authorised to do being everything else, and then for extra emphasis it includes a few more specific prohibitions as well. The bill of rights enshrines human rights, not citizen rights, by prohibiting the government from violating those rights, and it makes no distinction in that matter between citizens and other people.
1) Slackware doesnt include one, and it works much better than the other guys that do. So the obvious solution presents itself..
2) You guess wrong. Pkgtools works great to install binaries from trusted sources quick. But installing from source works great too. Best of both worlds.
3) I have experience with them too. They are not package managers, they are update programs, and guess what? Available for slack too. Without a package manager. Dependency hell you describe is neatly avoided on slack, though I have seen it on RPM and DEB based machines on occasion.
Again, the question is not how many people can execute it, the question is how many can parse it, and what is the barrier to entry they face? Writing for a popular market may not be idiotic, but writing for a popular *closed* market and falsely claiming to be open source IS idiotic.
Yes, we can 'f around' forever but that will never really result in anything, we need instead to pay people just like us (only less employable) to do everything for us and then we need to eat their resulting binary, bugs and all, and smile happily.
I think I know you. Weren't you the one that kept telling Eve she wouldnt die from eating that apple?
GNOME hasnt contributed anything of value, but without GNU linux most certainly would not have used other solutions. There werent any, for the most part. Without GNU, linux would not have existed. FreeBSD was dead when Linux started, because of legal problems that were not resolved until years later. In an alternative universe where GNU tools were not available, Linux simply would not have existed. BSD would likely be much more popular than it is now as a result, but there were several years there where nothing could have been done without GNU and those were very critical years.
You have this almost exactly wrong. Stallman created software people use. Miguel broke software repeatedly until people could no longer use it. Just look at the steaming pile of crap he made out of MC!
They do not belong in the same sentence together. One is a creator, the other a destroyer, one contributed to mankind, the other used the openness of projects as an avenue to destroy them.
Whatever their desires may be, programming for a platform where open source has been intentionally denied even the possibility of existence and calling it open source is simply... idiotic. If you want to contribute to mankind you need to do it in a form that can be legally parsed by newcomers without paying licensing fees. Not that hard to figure out, surely?
The LSB is a steaming pile of crap and always has been. That said, your specific complaints are... bizaare. Linux systems can maintain an arbitrary number of old libraries transparently, with no breakage. If your current system has a problem with this it is because of stupid OS designers not a bad kernel. Try a different OS. Slackware has never given me a problem maintaining old libraries.
As you have noticed, android is not free. Until phones running android are required to provide driver source, it will never be Free, it is just a proprietary OS among many others, distinguished by the fact that it was very quick and cheap to develop because it steals tons of free code.
A lesson here for the idiots that think that Linux is still free when you are relying on Nvidia blobware to make it work. If the drivers arent Free then the OS isnt Free and that's a simple tautology.
And what if I wanted a Gnome I type experience? You know, one where the application framework doesnt try to force me to use a brain-dead WM, and my keyboard shortcuts actually work most of the time?
Official GNOME answer was if you want something like that go look at KDE or something you dirty heathen. Pretty sure it hasnt changed.
Miguel did not write Midnight Commander. He took over as maintainer of an already written and widely used file manager, loaded it down with crud to the point no one else could understand it and it was barely usable, then quit supporting it. The man deserves no credit for MC whatsoever, unless you mean for killing MC.
But vendor lock-in is objectionable because it does, to whatever extent it succeeds, make you a slave. So the OP wasnt nearly as far wrong as his replies would make it seem...
It's a blow to microsoft because for years he has been microsofts top man inside linux. They just lost their most famous saboteur. Not a huge loss, of course, since saboteurs work best when they arent known as such. Miguel's name will live in infamy as the man that killed MC, and I am pretty sure that no half-baked linux project would let him in the front door at this stage, so I doubt it's a real loss, but still somewhat symbolic.
Thanks, but no. I'll think of it as paying entirely too high a price for the shows (which are almost all utter crap to begin with) and I will continue to decline the offer. If I cared that much about TV, I could and would rig a DVR using free feeds. Frankly, I have better things to do with my time than watch product placements.
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Browsers are not supposed to guarantee same behaviour across platforms. The entire point, the genius, of html was requiring all that presentation layer bullshit be abstracted away and left in the hands of the browser, whether it has a screen, a printer, a braille-printer or just a speaker attached, to interpret (or ignore) as appropriate.
"After all, installing software on my OS allows the software's creator to run arbitrary code on my machine!" - Again you miss the entire point to having a browser. Sure, each website could just be a binary for you to download and run on approved platforms only - that would suck, and that's why we invented the web, where both content and presentation could be abstracted and dealt with as appropriate regardless of what platform the "viewer" (who might well be blind, remember) is using to "see" it.
One will inevitably turn into the other, so it's a false distinction really.
Hmm, I loaded the page up, I read the text, everything I wanted to work worked fine, and everything I didnt want to work... didnt. Without any fiddling. What were you saying again?
But internet sources in general carry massive amounts of it.
The major league folks are always tightly in bed with their chosen network, and make a real effort to shut down sites that help people get around them, but last time I checked (for a sports-junky friend) they werent much harder to find than other types of tv.
Personally, I am not a huge sports fan, and maybe I would feel differently if I was, but the way that all the major league balls games in the US are televised it's 98% marketing/ads and 2% sport anyway. I dont see how people stand it. I'd rather watch bootlegs of no-name teams from other countries when I get the urge to see a ballgame, because that way I will actually see a ball game instead of a marketing extravaganza with some snippets from a ballgame used to break up the commercials, but ymmv.
What turn javascript off? I keep it off, are you insane? Why on earth would I permit my browser to execute arbitrary scripting from arbitrary sources?
Eh, simply using a sane browser should fix the problem. I dont see any popups here, using noscript of course.
The funny thing is, the OTA stations dont have any more ads than the cable channels these days, so unless you have a massive appetite for TV (in which case internet options are probably better anyway) there is no reason at all for most people to get cable.
So your position is that you need to go to a judge and show evidence on which to base a warrant to go arrest someone suspected of having committed a crime, but no warrant and no oversight of any kind is needed to simply blow the guy into bits if he's suspected of being likely to commit a crime at some point in the future.
Seriously?
It does not limit itself to citizens and there is no textual support for that reading at all. It applies to the government - not to the people - and lays out what the government is authorised to do, what it is not authorised to do being everything else, and then for extra emphasis it includes a few more specific prohibitions as well. The bill of rights enshrines human rights, not citizen rights, by prohibiting the government from violating those rights, and it makes no distinction in that matter between citizens and other people.
1) Slackware doesnt include one, and it works much better than the other guys that do. So the obvious solution presents itself..
2) You guess wrong. Pkgtools works great to install binaries from trusted sources quick. But installing from source works great too. Best of both worlds.
3) I have experience with them too. They are not package managers, they are update programs, and guess what? Available for slack too. Without a package manager. Dependency hell you describe is neatly avoided on slack, though I have seen it on RPM and DEB based machines on occasion.
Again, the question is not how many people can execute it, the question is how many can parse it, and what is the barrier to entry they face? Writing for a popular market may not be idiotic, but writing for a popular *closed* market and falsely claiming to be open source IS idiotic.
Yes, we can 'f around' forever but that will never really result in anything, we need instead to pay people just like us (only less employable) to do everything for us and then we need to eat their resulting binary, bugs and all, and smile happily.
I think I know you. Weren't you the one that kept telling Eve she wouldnt die from eating that apple?
GNOME hasnt contributed anything of value, but without GNU linux most certainly would not have used other solutions. There werent any, for the most part. Without GNU, linux would not have existed. FreeBSD was dead when Linux started, because of legal problems that were not resolved until years later. In an alternative universe where GNU tools were not available, Linux simply would not have existed. BSD would likely be much more popular than it is now as a result, but there were several years there where nothing could have been done without GNU and those were very critical years.
You have this almost exactly wrong. Stallman created software people use. Miguel broke software repeatedly until people could no longer use it. Just look at the steaming pile of crap he made out of MC!
They do not belong in the same sentence together. One is a creator, the other a destroyer, one contributed to mankind, the other used the openness of projects as an avenue to destroy them.
Sounds like my entire 20+year record with linux, actually.
What we are seeing is one of the major contributors to linux suck, taking his suck elsewhere. And we all rejoiced!
Package dependency crap can be avoided by simply not installing some brain-dead package manager in the first place.
Whatever their desires may be, programming for a platform where open source has been intentionally denied even the possibility of existence and calling it open source is simply... idiotic. If you want to contribute to mankind you need to do it in a form that can be legally parsed by newcomers without paying licensing fees. Not that hard to figure out, surely?
The LSB is a steaming pile of crap and always has been. That said, your specific complaints are... bizaare. Linux systems can maintain an arbitrary number of old libraries transparently, with no breakage. If your current system has a problem with this it is because of stupid OS designers not a bad kernel. Try a different OS. Slackware has never given me a problem maintaining old libraries.
As you have noticed, android is not free. Until phones running android are required to provide driver source, it will never be Free, it is just a proprietary OS among many others, distinguished by the fact that it was very quick and cheap to develop because it steals tons of free code.
A lesson here for the idiots that think that Linux is still free when you are relying on Nvidia blobware to make it work. If the drivers arent Free then the OS isnt Free and that's a simple tautology.
Yeah, there were a good 10 years when you could install any arbitrary linux OS and make it work.
These days most are so loaded down with GNOME crap they are unusable.
THANKS MIGUEL!!!!
And what if I wanted a Gnome I type experience? You know, one where the application framework doesnt try to force me to use a brain-dead WM, and my keyboard shortcuts actually work most of the time?
Official GNOME answer was if you want something like that go look at KDE or something you dirty heathen. Pretty sure it hasnt changed.
Miguel did not write Midnight Commander. He took over as maintainer of an already written and widely used file manager, loaded it down with crud to the point no one else could understand it and it was barely usable, then quit supporting it. The man deserves no credit for MC whatsoever, unless you mean for killing MC.
But vendor lock-in is objectionable because it does, to whatever extent it succeeds, make you a slave. So the OP wasnt nearly as far wrong as his replies would make it seem...
It's a blow to microsoft because for years he has been microsofts top man inside linux. They just lost their most famous saboteur. Not a huge loss, of course, since saboteurs work best when they arent known as such. Miguel's name will live in infamy as the man that killed MC, and I am pretty sure that no half-baked linux project would let him in the front door at this stage, so I doubt it's a real loss, but still somewhat symbolic.
Thanks, but no. I'll think of it as paying entirely too high a price for the shows (which are almost all utter crap to begin with) and I will continue to decline the offer. If I cared that much about TV, I could and would rig a DVR using free feeds. Frankly, I have better things to do with my time than watch product placements.