I'm managing a site with 800,000 worldwide users, of which ~12,000 are in Europe. Never captured, let alone sold, any personal data but GDPR compliance cost obviously not worth it. So bye bye Europe.
Reread this para, replacing 'science' with 'reality'. Whether it's science, or politics or business or international affairs, it's the same story.
'Science and journalism seem to be uniquely incompatible: Where journalism favors neat story arcs, science progresses jerkily, with false starts and misdirections... '
I've been through this. Progressives are terrible for computer use. Just stick to regular reading glasses for the computer while using progressives for everything else.
I've heard that some new (very expensive) progressives have exceptionally large reading zones but I'm so comfortable using traditional reading glasses that I haven't bothered.
The headline is wrong. This is not at all a cargo ship. It's more like an free-floating platform on which a gas refinery has been built. It will stay in place during its entire lifetime.
Seriously - at the risk of sounding like a basher - has Microsoft ever produced a product where they focused on providing better quality than the competition?
Your risk of sounding like a basher is indeed serious. Try talking to some old folk who switched from 1-2-3 to Excel around 1993 or dBase/Foxpro to Access around 1997 to get the real story on how some major Microsoft products once actually were much better than the competition (even though Foxpro was a Microsoft product by then).
He was born to a Muslim father and a Parsi woman who was converted to Islam on marriage. His original name was Feroze Khan. His mother's maiden family name was Ghandy.
The rebranding of Feroze Khan as Feroze Gandhi was a brilliant marketing move.
Something makes me think that here in India, Indira Khan, Rajiv Khan and Sonia Khan wouldn't have had much political success.
Slashdot's special 'light' mode (meant for text-only browsers) seems to be a well-kept secret. I haven't used the normal UI for years now, even in graphical browsers.
Why is everyone so certain that the US is a net importer of software, (or of IP-centric products in general).
Almost all non-open source software (and a lot of open-source software as well) used around the world is American. A situation where software is widely tariffed may not be such a good idea.
Also, customs officials in almost every country regularly impute a 'fair and reasonable' (!) value to goods that the importer claims are free and impose duties.
If you fly in with a gifted CD-player from abroad, you are likely to be taxed at the normal market value for that type of CD-player.
So import tariffs for software could well lead to an import duty to be charged on, say, MySQL, taking SQL Server or Oracle prices as 'fair value'.
Wordstar fans (or young 'uns who need to check out what we are talking about) just need to install this clone called 'joe'.
Used to be in Redhat for a long time ago but has been dropped in RH8 I think, used to be in Slackware too (I think), maybe there in other distros as well. I'll never forget it because when I first installed Linux years ago it was on the only editor on the system I knew how to use.
Here's what the RPM says:
Joe is an easy to use, modeless text editor which is very easy to use.
Joe uses the same WordStar keybindings used in Borland's development
environment.
You should install joe if you've used it before and you liked it, or if
you're still deciding what text editor you'd like to use, or if you have a
fondness for WordStar. If you're just starting out, you should probably
install joe because it is very easy to use.
Absolutely true. Here in India (a very China-like piracy situation) there are plenty of small businesses which want to move to Linux in theory but they continue to use Windows-Office-Exchange etc because its free to them.
At zero cost (actually approx. US$ 2.15 per CD that all software costs here), its pretty hard to convince yourself that the effort of migrating to Open Source is worth it!
Funnily enough, Linux costs more than Windows because none of the regular pirates stock Linux. So Win2K is US$ 2.15 but Redhat is about US$15 which is what the cheapest unoficial Redhat CD costs
Note that these people (at least those who are actually likely to get the cert), are probably there to become programmers doing bread-and-butter database business apps, not Sysadmins doing cool things with Windows Terminal Server (it's possible).
They are going to do VB with SQL Server or local Jet databases, and there's nothing in the *nix world that can compete with that combo in time-to-first-pay-cheque. That's a combination of a lot of different factors (including market size) that do not exist in the *nix world.
True realization that *nix is better comes (as opposed to./ing zealotry), zen-like, after many deep experiences. In a two day program, just read them excerpts from The Jargon File, and hope the better ones join the fold some day.
The Middle Eastern crazies are all muslims. The 8-armed godesss and the elephant god (seperate entities) are of the Hindus. The muslim crazies consider jews, hindus and americans their enemies. So the 8 armed and the elepjhant god are your enemy's enemies.
You really won't be able to anything about any of this if you refuse to inform yourself, you know.
I'll ignore the bait, but when you say that 'people should use whatever is best for the job at hand' you are implicitly saying that most (or many, or at least a reasonable percentage) have a meaningful choice. If you look around at real homes and offices at people actually using computers, you can't fail to notice that most don't. And even an idiot can see the role Microsoft plays in prohibiting real choice.
There is a cause: it is to get closer to a situation where people do actually have at least a fighting chance to use whatever is best for the job at hand.
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Not necessarily true.
I'm managing a site with 800,000 worldwide users, of which ~12,000 are in Europe. Never captured, let alone sold, any personal data but GDPR compliance cost obviously not worth it. So bye bye Europe.
Reread this para, replacing 'science' with 'reality'. Whether it's science, or politics or business or international affairs, it's the same story.
'Science and journalism seem to be uniquely incompatible: Where journalism favors neat story arcs, science progresses jerkily, with false starts and misdirections... '
I've been through this. Progressives are terrible for computer use. Just stick to regular reading glasses for the computer while using progressives for everything else.
I've heard that some new (very expensive) progressives have exceptionally large reading zones but I'm so comfortable using traditional reading glasses that I haven't bothered.
The headline is wrong. This is not at all a cargo ship. It's more like an free-floating platform on which a gas refinery has been built. It will stay in place during its entire lifetime.
It should not even be compared to ships.
I will congratulation India when they can stop shitting on the streets.
Oh snap I just fucking DESTROYED you.
Actually, it's mostly open fields, not streets.
You should try it some time. It isn't as bad as it's made out to be.
Seriously - at the risk of sounding like a basher - has Microsoft ever produced a product where they focused on providing better quality than the competition?
Your risk of sounding like a basher is indeed serious. Try talking to some old folk who switched from 1-2-3 to Excel around 1993 or dBase/Foxpro to Access around 1997 to get the real story on how some major Microsoft products once actually were much better than the competition (even though Foxpro was a Microsoft product by then).
vi along with sort, |, awk, and cat in various combinations...
The rebranding of Feroze Khan as Feroze Gandhi was a brilliant marketing move.
Something makes me think that here in India, Indira Khan, Rajiv Khan and Sonia Khan wouldn't have had much political success.
By the way, western countries have nothing to complain about now--India has outsourced its prime minister's job to Italy!
Big Electronic Human Energised Machine, Only Too Heavy
Check this out
Slashdot's special 'light' mode (meant for text-only browsers) seems to be a well-kept secret. I haven't used the normal UI for years now, even in graphical browsers.
Go to preferences and choose 'Light'
How nice Microsoft was before it grew up.
He is (was?) an engineer, not a scientist.
Why is everyone so certain that the US is a net importer of software, (or of IP-centric products in general).
Almost all non-open source software (and a lot of open-source software as well) used around the world is American. A situation where software is widely tariffed may not be such a good idea.
Also, customs officials in almost every country regularly impute a 'fair and reasonable' (!) value to goods that the importer claims are free and impose duties.
If you fly in with a gifted CD-player from abroad, you are likely to be taxed at the normal market value for that type of CD-player.
So import tariffs for software could well lead to an import duty to be charged on, say, MySQL, taking SQL Server or Oracle prices as 'fair value'.
Wordstar fans (or young 'uns who need to check out what we are talking about) just need to install this clone called 'joe'. Used to be in Redhat for a long time ago but has been dropped in RH8 I think, used to be in Slackware too (I think), maybe there in other distros as well. I'll never forget it because when I first installed Linux years ago it was on the only editor on the system I knew how to use.
Here's what the RPM says:
Joe is an easy to use, modeless text editor which is very easy to use. Joe uses the same WordStar keybindings used in Borland's development environment. You should install joe if you've used it before and you liked it, or if you're still deciding what text editor you'd like to use, or if you have a fondness for WordStar. If you're just starting out, you should probably install joe because it is very easy to use.
You could find another Linux user and three CD-Rs would cost you just about 60 cents, and that's the way most of us get Linux.
But if you want to buy it from a shop/business then US$15 is about the least you can expect to pay.
BTW, the US$2.15 per CD holds for all kinds of CDs, including music and Video.
No, that would be illegal. Tell you what, try Linux, much better.
Absolutely true. Here in India (a very China-like piracy situation) there are plenty of small businesses which want to move to Linux in theory but they continue to use Windows-Office-Exchange etc because its free to them.
At zero cost (actually approx. US$ 2.15 per CD that all software costs here), its pretty hard to convince yourself that the effort of migrating to Open Source is worth it!
Funnily enough, Linux costs more than Windows because none of the regular pirates stock Linux. So Win2K is US$ 2.15 but Redhat is about US$15 which is what the cheapest unoficial Redhat CD costs
1MB is child's play for UltraEdit--I once loaded a _23MB_ file on a Win98 machine with 64MB RAM and it handled that without any hysterics.
Of course the one thing that's really different about UltraEdit is developer Ian Mead's belief in God's role in the process of creating software.
Him and Larry Wall.
Note that these people (at least those who are actually likely to get the cert), are probably there to become programmers doing bread-and-butter database business apps, not Sysadmins doing cool things with Windows Terminal Server (it's possible).
They are going to do VB with SQL Server or local Jet databases, and there's nothing in the *nix world that can compete with that combo in time-to-first-pay-cheque. That's a combination of a lot of different factors (including market size) that do not exist in the *nix world.
True realization that *nix is better comes (as opposed to ./ing zealotry), zen-like, after many deep experiences. In a two day program, just read them excerpts from The Jargon File, and hope the better ones join the fold some day.
So you are looking for arguments to convince politicians, are you?
But that's so simple! Just copy the techniques used by others who've been successful at doing this.
For example, you could start by figuring out the arguments Disney must be using to persuade Hollings.
Congratulations! May your married life be long and happy.
Military, must be
The Middle Eastern crazies are all muslims. The 8-armed godesss and the elephant god (seperate entities) are of the Hindus. The muslim crazies consider jews, hindus and americans their enemies. So the 8 armed and the elepjhant god are your enemy's enemies.
You really won't be able to anything about any of this if you refuse to inform yourself, you know.
I'll ignore the bait, but when you say that 'people should use whatever is best for the job at hand' you are implicitly saying that most (or many, or at least a reasonable percentage) have a meaningful choice. If you look around at real homes and offices at people actually using computers, you can't fail to notice that most don't. And even an idiot can see the role Microsoft plays in prohibiting real choice. There is a cause: it is to get closer to a situation where people do actually have at least a fighting chance to use whatever is best for the job at hand.