So there's a new build of 9.2.1 without any sort of a version bump at all? That's a little weird. Why isn't there a version bump so people can easily verify what they're running?
Just a hint: in Raymond's original essay, the Cathedral development team being criticized was the GNU Emacs developers. Not some outfit like Microsoft.
I have an officiall IBM System 370 ashtray in my collection. It's more of a promotional item than anything else, but it exists. Not as ubiquitous as those Think signs for the desk were at the time.
The people with most of the power don't care what lever 'the voters' flip. They own pretty nearly every politician except, this time around, maybe Bernie and Trump. And Bernie and Trump are loose cannons, so it's not really much relief that they aren't owned.
He was being what is called an adventurist in radical circles. Adventurists are the people who enter a movement and want to kick things up and have an exciting rebellion.
I was a bit like that when I was young. I once set the effigy of the University President off early, before one of my 'comrades' had finished the speech denouncing him.
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It doesn't really matter who was in charge at HP after the founders left and the era of bottomless government spending on Cold War technology ended. The place was in trouble, and big changes were warranted.
All the boomers who had hunkered down in the back labs of HP and thought they had permanent jobs because they worked at a company headed by engineers had a day of reckoning.
It doesn't matter who was in charge. HP was headed down because nobody needed expensive instruments with their circuit boards gold plated "just because it's HP" anymore. I love all that cool old gear but am glad my taxes aren't paying for it anymore.
Carly isn't to blame, although, obviously she is popular to blame.
And yet there are recent examples of glaring vulnerabilities that existed in major Open Source projects for years and years, in spite of the 'many eyes.'
Don't smoke around that huge straw man, dude. It's liable to flame up on you.
Android has Firefox, and Firefox had Adblock Plus. I use an Android phone and I refuse to run any browser but Firefox on it. And I NEVER log on to Google's services in Firefox. Real Firefox isn't even available in iOS.
The 'experimental' browser in the Kindle Keyboard 3G is so painful to use that I can't imagine surfing 20MB of anything with it in a day. Now I want to figure out that tethering hack, if it still works for 20MB per day.
Isn't it kind of a form of Net Neutrality for people to come up with ways to make sure that service providers can't sort and differentiate pricing for different sorts of content?
A weird engineer who couldn't find engineering software to do real work on his Mac SE in 1989? We're taking the kind of person who goes out of his way to be offbeat.
There wasn't engineering software to get to work in that era. You had Ashlar Vellum and you could compose pages on Pagemaker. And Excel.
The advice they are taking is 'Sell at a premium price to only upper-middle-class people who want to think they are members of the 1%.' Not from people like me. My advice would be: 'quit paying so many fucking lawyers to harass your competitors.'
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Jefferson Starship rocks in the Holiday Special. It's worth watching even for those of us who don't really even like Star Wars very much.
So there's a new build of 9.2.1 without any sort of a version bump at all? That's a little weird. Why isn't there a version bump so people can easily verify what they're running?
Overhead? Hillary was relatively cheap. Her payoff was less than the annual corporate budget for coffee.
Just a hint: in Raymond's original essay, the Cathedral development team being criticized was the GNU Emacs developers. Not some outfit like Microsoft.
Just thought it was worth mentioning.
I have an officiall IBM System 370 ashtray in my collection. It's more of a promotional item than anything else, but it exists. Not as ubiquitous as those Think signs for the desk were at the time.
And you think the punched cards were created by some dude with an awl?
Get a clue. Computing in the era of punched cards was completely dependent on keypunch operators sitting at keyboards.
It's not Stuff That Matters to Nerds.
They have probably taken that off the site's header, though. Slashdot has been passed around to a lot of owners.
The people with most of the power don't care what lever 'the voters' flip. They own pretty nearly every politician except, this time around, maybe Bernie and Trump. And Bernie and Trump are loose cannons, so it's not really much relief that they aren't owned.
It's really not enough to shift into neutral.
Congress needs to shift into reverse and start picking through the laws and repealing a number of them.
There aren't 'storm sewers' out in the countryside that you so eloquently referenced. Do you ever get out of that big dirty liberal city??
You can talk about 'utter disrespect toward the President' with all the peeing down your leg you did just a minute ago about prior serving Presidents?
He was being what is called an adventurist in radical circles. Adventurists are the people who enter a movement and want to kick things up and have an exciting rebellion.
I was a bit like that when I was young. I once set the effigy of the University President off early, before one of my 'comrades' had finished the speech denouncing him.
It doesn't really matter who was in charge at HP after the founders left and the era of bottomless government spending on Cold War technology ended. The place was in trouble, and big changes were warranted.
All the boomers who had hunkered down in the back labs of HP and thought they had permanent jobs because they worked at a company headed by engineers had a day of reckoning.
It doesn't matter who was in charge. HP was headed down because nobody needed expensive instruments with their circuit boards gold plated "just because it's HP" anymore. I love all that cool old gear but am glad my taxes aren't paying for it anymore.
Carly isn't to blame, although, obviously she is popular to blame.
So you are saying one of the Linux-based OSes should put on some weight and become a giant?
And yet there are recent examples of glaring vulnerabilities that existed in major Open Source projects for years and years, in spite of the 'many eyes.'
Don't smoke around that huge straw man, dude. It's liable to flame up on you.
If you don't trust Intel, don't run their microcode.
If you don't trust Logitech, don't use their mice and keyboards containing their firmware.
If you don't trust Seagate, don't use their hard drives containing their firmware.
If you don't trust Nvidia, don't use their graphics cards containing their firmware.
None of the above are open source, and at least one of the above is in many, many machines running a Linux-kernel based OS.
(it really whips the llama's ass!)
"Every" is a word you are obviously not qualified to use.
Android has Firefox, and Firefox had Adblock Plus. I use an Android phone and I refuse to run any browser but Firefox on it. And I NEVER log on to Google's services in Firefox. Real Firefox isn't even available in iOS.
The 'experimental' browser in the Kindle Keyboard 3G is so painful to use that I can't imagine surfing 20MB of anything with it in a day. Now I want to figure out that tethering hack, if it still works for 20MB per day.
Isn't it kind of a form of Net Neutrality for people to come up with ways to make sure that service providers can't sort and differentiate pricing for different sorts of content?
A weird engineer who couldn't find engineering software to do real work on his Mac SE in 1989? We're taking the kind of person who goes out of his way to be offbeat.
There wasn't engineering software to get to work in that era. You had Ashlar Vellum and you could compose pages on Pagemaker. And Excel.
The advice they are taking is 'Sell at a premium price to only upper-middle-class people who want to think they are members of the 1%.' Not from people like me. My advice would be: 'quit paying so many fucking lawyers to harass your competitors.'
Doubtless you could have gotten 2 micro USB cables from that vendor for that price.
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This is Slashdot. It's not a nerd site anymore. It's a lickspittle worship site for dot.com hypemeisters like Musk.