I knew that they're sales were low, but I had no idea they were that low. Bill Gates could just about buy out the entire industry and have money left over.
Seriously, they engage in all manner of illegal investigation and questionable lawsuit, and now they're whining about the fact that it's their responsibility to police their content? If this was a small company, I could totally understand, but this is an industry that takes in billions of dollars every year. If they can't afford to bring a few lawsuits, perhaps they need a new business model.
Mint is, however LMDE isn't. I'm not sure how long Mint is going to remain around, seeing as it seems to be diverging from Ubuntu as it becomes more and more obvious that Canonical is batshit insane. At some point it's probably going to be less work for mint to just standardize itself around the Debian Edition.
Yeah, well, I think the hold up here was that Steve was concerned that people would have to decide when to hit pause and when to hit play and what on earth they should do with the volume. So, they took those choices away and made folks go to the theater to see it.
You mean aside from bloating up the system and being that much more code that I have to recompile when I'm recompiling my software packages? It also happens to be that many more lines of code where there can be a potential vulnerability hiding. Not that I think it's particularly likely, but you never know.
And unfortunately with student loans those don't have a statute of limitations and typically can't be discharged by bankruptcy.
So, if you get a bum education, and can't get a job that pays well enough to pay the loan, you're screwed with garnishments for possibly the rest of your work life.
This kind of arrogance is why we can't have nice things. Most of the time when I find an answer to something that's stumped me the thread doesn't contain any one post or sentence that includes all of the symptoms. Mainly because the person asking for help doesn't know what the relevant information is.
Under your suggestion I wouldn't find any of those examples because it's post by post and bit by bit. Which works, assuming you use the same spelling as the poster and you don't need to combine it with other things and it's not a dependency etc. The fact that Google chooses not to parse anything out is just going to make things worse.
Then again, I really wish that Ballmer would make good on fucking killing Google because Google's effect on the search industry has been more than a little regressive.
That's something I wish somebody would deal with. I always, always, always end up with at least one Gnome app on a KDE install or 1 KDE app on a Gnome install requiring me to have a lot of libraries installed for just one app.
Not really, it's a sane defaults thing. If you're going to install a WM as incompetently designed as Unity,then you had damn well provide a back up. I'm not sure if Canonical has gotten around to removing the back up, but it is on the road map if they haven't already doing it.
Unity was a buggy piece of shit. Once they fix the bugs it will be a ugly piece of shit that doesn't scale well to larger monitors and doesn't allow for repositioning.
Contrary to popular opinion around here, WM are a fairly big deal, they're the first thing that users see when they start working with a distro. Canonical doesn't seem to mind it, but personally I won't use anything that won't let me log in because I'm using a wireless keyboard.
It's a matter of trust, you shouldn't upgrade your system and find that the WM no longer functions because some jack wagon decided to include alpha code in a release.
And yes, I did end up installing something else and whenever people ask me I warn them off Ubuntu due to the unpredictability of development.
I haven't tried LMDE, but the standard Linux Mint is quite nice. When I get around to it, I'll be trying LMDE, but for the time being things work, and I don't generally have too much trouble getting my work done.
It is FUD, there's a vocal minority of people that keep claiming that there's this monstrous memory leak, but in practice it's not something that most people see. And I have yet to hear about any developers observing the problem on any of their machines.
So, it's probably technically possible, or there's something about those particular machines that leads to the problem. Considering how consistently Firefox beats the snot out of Chrome on memory use, I'm leaning towards it not being a common problem.
It's not enough time to solve the problem. There have been plenty of times where even after a couple hours of searching for an answer somebody else who knew what to look for could find it in about 30 seconds. And I know there have been times where I could find something almost instantly because I knew the cause from years back.
Just fucking google it is really not an acceptable response in cases like this.
Except that saying just fucking google it isn't teaching somebody to fish either. It's very quick to enter terms into a search engine if you know what the answer is, and quite a bit more difficult if you have no idea what the answer should look like.
In this case you have to figure out how to exclude the various ways of saying anti-spoof while not excluding essential links. And google often times makes it a pain in the ass to find things as any appearance of the terms anywhere in the page is by default considered a match. Even if they're not only not in the same sentence, but not even in the same paragraph. My favorite thing is when the engine finds the words in a link bar on the side of the page or as contact information at the bottom.
The reason it being unfair is such a big deal is that you often find professors that set students up for failure in one way or another. Sure, fairness isn't going to fly in the working world, but that's hardly a cogent argument against fairness in the academic environment. A degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on if the process isn't fair and well designed.
Failing people out of a program that could do the work with appropriate support isn't something that reflects well on an institution.
Jobs is a part of the problem here, but it's not the only one.
I remember my senior year enrolling in a class and finding midway through the term that they would be requiring me to be on campus essentially 24 hours a day for one of the projects. The faculty failed to provide enough time during the set up so that I was never given the answers I needed to start my work. It wasn't a case of my not asking questions either, it was towards the end of the lab and the faculty never did explain in any clarity how to identify the different types of drosophila mutations we were looking for.
That pissed me off quite a bit, because people who live off campus without a car were effectively shut out of the project as were those of us that were never able to identify the different mutations at the start.
I disagree, that sort of arrogant attitude has no place in education. There are certain things which a professor should be able to assume, however, there's plenty of times when students do pass previous classes without ever having seen some techniques. Penalizing students because a previous prof made a choice that wasn't in harmony with a later class isn't really appropriate. And it gets worse when you change schools mid degree.
It would have been really nice to have seen matrices, synthetic division, trig identities and a few other things before they popped up in calculus, but ultimately, they weren't things that were included in the prerequisites at any school I've been to.
Around here a living wage is about double minimum wage, making any less than that requires the individuals to not put money into savings and try to skate by on the minimum one can pay for everything.
I hear that sort of assertion all the time, but when apartments routinely cost $12k a year and more, with minimum wage being $9.04 per hour, leaves you with 7ish thousand not being spent on rent. And that doesn't include the cost of taxes, food, utilities and such. You can find cheaper rent, but not that much cheaper.
I disagree with that, colleges have to make due with the students they're able to get. That's what the admissions process is about. If somebody has the prerequisites and was admitted, then the professor has to make due with the students that have enrolled.
It is a poor teacher indeed that blames the students for his own failings. Assuming materials that aren't necessarily covered in previous classes is a sign of incompetence, not maintaining rigor.
No, it's gone up greatly in the last few decades because it's becoming harder and harder to draw a living wage without a degree. Even jobs that don't require a degree are increasingly likely to have a degree listed as a requirement.
As for math, in my experience, one of the problems is that people who teach math at the college level have either a masters or PhD in math, and often times forget that they aren't educating people who are necessarily good at seeing the things the same way that the prof does. I myself have noticed that after years of tutoring math that I'm starting to just see that there's something wrong with a problem, without having to do the math.
Then there's the problem of profs assuming that things were covered in previous classes which weren't covered. When I got back to math, I had to very quickly memorize a huge number of math facts that I hadn't been expected to memorize, which put me at a distinct disadvantage to most of the other students whose teachers had expected them to memorize them.
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I knew that they're sales were low, but I had no idea they were that low. Bill Gates could just about buy out the entire industry and have money left over.
Hopefully, the Waaaaaaahmbulance is available.
Seriously, they engage in all manner of illegal investigation and questionable lawsuit, and now they're whining about the fact that it's their responsibility to police their content? If this was a small company, I could totally understand, but this is an industry that takes in billions of dollars every year. If they can't afford to bring a few lawsuits, perhaps they need a new business model.
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Mint is, however LMDE isn't. I'm not sure how long Mint is going to remain around, seeing as it seems to be diverging from Ubuntu as it becomes more and more obvious that Canonical is batshit insane. At some point it's probably going to be less work for mint to just standardize itself around the Debian Edition.
At this point I'm having a hard time remembering what the big deal about goatse was.
That would carry somewhat more weight if he hadn't been whoring it out for the better part of 3 decades.
Yeah, well, I think the hold up here was that Steve was concerned that people would have to decide when to hit pause and when to hit play and what on earth they should do with the volume. So, they took those choices away and made folks go to the theater to see it.
You mean aside from bloating up the system and being that much more code that I have to recompile when I'm recompiling my software packages? It also happens to be that many more lines of code where there can be a potential vulnerability hiding. Not that I think it's particularly likely, but you never know.
I'm pretty sure you don't have an alumnus, slavery is illegal.
And unfortunately with student loans those don't have a statute of limitations and typically can't be discharged by bankruptcy.
So, if you get a bum education, and can't get a job that pays well enough to pay the loan, you're screwed with garnishments for possibly the rest of your work life.
This kind of arrogance is why we can't have nice things. Most of the time when I find an answer to something that's stumped me the thread doesn't contain any one post or sentence that includes all of the symptoms. Mainly because the person asking for help doesn't know what the relevant information is.
Under your suggestion I wouldn't find any of those examples because it's post by post and bit by bit. Which works, assuming you use the same spelling as the poster and you don't need to combine it with other things and it's not a dependency etc. The fact that Google chooses not to parse anything out is just going to make things worse.
Then again, I really wish that Ballmer would make good on fucking killing Google because Google's effect on the search industry has been more than a little regressive.
That's something I wish somebody would deal with. I always, always, always end up with at least one Gnome app on a KDE install or 1 KDE app on a Gnome install requiring me to have a lot of libraries installed for just one app.
Not really, it's a sane defaults thing. If you're going to install a WM as incompetently designed as Unity,then you had damn well provide a back up. I'm not sure if Canonical has gotten around to removing the back up, but it is on the road map if they haven't already doing it.
Unity was a buggy piece of shit. Once they fix the bugs it will be a ugly piece of shit that doesn't scale well to larger monitors and doesn't allow for repositioning.
Contrary to popular opinion around here, WM are a fairly big deal, they're the first thing that users see when they start working with a distro. Canonical doesn't seem to mind it, but personally I won't use anything that won't let me log in because I'm using a wireless keyboard.
It's a really sad distro who's shown up by MS.
It's a matter of trust, you shouldn't upgrade your system and find that the WM no longer functions because some jack wagon decided to include alpha code in a release.
And yes, I did end up installing something else and whenever people ask me I warn them off Ubuntu due to the unpredictability of development.
I haven't tried LMDE, but the standard Linux Mint is quite nice. When I get around to it, I'll be trying LMDE, but for the time being things work, and I don't generally have too much trouble getting my work done.
That's silly, the obvious answer is to just glue the phone to the employee. Also attach it via some sort of leash.
It is FUD, there's a vocal minority of people that keep claiming that there's this monstrous memory leak, but in practice it's not something that most people see. And I have yet to hear about any developers observing the problem on any of their machines.
So, it's probably technically possible, or there's something about those particular machines that leads to the problem. Considering how consistently Firefox beats the snot out of Chrome on memory use, I'm leaning towards it not being a common problem.
It's not enough time to solve the problem. There have been plenty of times where even after a couple hours of searching for an answer somebody else who knew what to look for could find it in about 30 seconds. And I know there have been times where I could find something almost instantly because I knew the cause from years back.
Just fucking google it is really not an acceptable response in cases like this.
Except that saying just fucking google it isn't teaching somebody to fish either. It's very quick to enter terms into a search engine if you know what the answer is, and quite a bit more difficult if you have no idea what the answer should look like.
In this case you have to figure out how to exclude the various ways of saying anti-spoof while not excluding essential links. And google often times makes it a pain in the ass to find things as any appearance of the terms anywhere in the page is by default considered a match. Even if they're not only not in the same sentence, but not even in the same paragraph. My favorite thing is when the engine finds the words in a link bar on the side of the page or as contact information at the bottom.
The reason it being unfair is such a big deal is that you often find professors that set students up for failure in one way or another. Sure, fairness isn't going to fly in the working world, but that's hardly a cogent argument against fairness in the academic environment. A degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on if the process isn't fair and well designed.
Failing people out of a program that could do the work with appropriate support isn't something that reflects well on an institution.
Jobs is a part of the problem here, but it's not the only one.
I remember my senior year enrolling in a class and finding midway through the term that they would be requiring me to be on campus essentially 24 hours a day for one of the projects. The faculty failed to provide enough time during the set up so that I was never given the answers I needed to start my work. It wasn't a case of my not asking questions either, it was towards the end of the lab and the faculty never did explain in any clarity how to identify the different types of drosophila mutations we were looking for.
That pissed me off quite a bit, because people who live off campus without a car were effectively shut out of the project as were those of us that were never able to identify the different mutations at the start.
I disagree, that sort of arrogant attitude has no place in education. There are certain things which a professor should be able to assume, however, there's plenty of times when students do pass previous classes without ever having seen some techniques. Penalizing students because a previous prof made a choice that wasn't in harmony with a later class isn't really appropriate. And it gets worse when you change schools mid degree.
It would have been really nice to have seen matrices, synthetic division, trig identities and a few other things before they popped up in calculus, but ultimately, they weren't things that were included in the prerequisites at any school I've been to.
Around here a living wage is about double minimum wage, making any less than that requires the individuals to not put money into savings and try to skate by on the minimum one can pay for everything.
I hear that sort of assertion all the time, but when apartments routinely cost $12k a year and more, with minimum wage being $9.04 per hour, leaves you with 7ish thousand not being spent on rent. And that doesn't include the cost of taxes, food, utilities and such. You can find cheaper rent, but not that much cheaper.
I disagree with that, colleges have to make due with the students they're able to get. That's what the admissions process is about. If somebody has the prerequisites and was admitted, then the professor has to make due with the students that have enrolled.
It is a poor teacher indeed that blames the students for his own failings. Assuming materials that aren't necessarily covered in previous classes is a sign of incompetence, not maintaining rigor.
No, it's gone up greatly in the last few decades because it's becoming harder and harder to draw a living wage without a degree. Even jobs that don't require a degree are increasingly likely to have a degree listed as a requirement.
As for math, in my experience, one of the problems is that people who teach math at the college level have either a masters or PhD in math, and often times forget that they aren't educating people who are necessarily good at seeing the things the same way that the prof does. I myself have noticed that after years of tutoring math that I'm starting to just see that there's something wrong with a problem, without having to do the math.
Then there's the problem of profs assuming that things were covered in previous classes which weren't covered. When I got back to math, I had to very quickly memorize a huge number of math facts that I hadn't been expected to memorize, which put me at a distinct disadvantage to most of the other students whose teachers had expected them to memorize them.