I reluctantly went out and bought a Windows 10 license for my desktop machine because it's a homebuilt and the sketchy copy of Windows 7 I was running kept going to a 'this is not a genuine copy of windows' even though I was being very selective about what updates I applied.
Once you wring out all the weirdness and what-not, a Windows 10 desktop looks much the same as a Windows 7 or a Windows XP desktop. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a 'Classic Windows' desktop theme out-of-the-box so I could pretend I was still running Windows 2000, but mostly I am there and it's all the way I want it.
There have always been a cadre of Windows and Microsoft haters here on Slashdot. I have run alternate-OS desktops in the past though I abandoned Linux in about 1998 because of what Red Hat was doing to it (I was a Slackware guy for several years). If I want to run a Freenix I install NetBSD because it's just a regular unix-like, and doesn't try to imitate Windows.
Most of the telemetry you can turn off or disable. I mean, come on, it isn't that hard.
Anyhow, hate on if it fulfills you. But if you run a Mac, you should upgrade. There are plenty of options out there.
From sacker you can go to cashier, or stocker, or apprentice in the meat department, or baker.
I am surprised at a Kroeger that a sacker would be re-delegated to janitor, though. Isn't Kroeger a union shop? When I was a grocery bagger back in 1977, it was a union job and it wouldn't have been common for a lateral transfer to janitor to happen.
Every generation of new people wants to rip it all down and replace it. This particularly seems to apply when it comes to software development. Everybody knows, they simply know, that they can do a better job, if we just rip out everything from before and implement it again from scratch.
Fire them all. In fact, lets get some pitchforks and make DAMN SURE they get fired.
No, that would be illegal. Howabout we have the government do it. Yeah, that's it. From now on, there will be a Regulatory Affairs department, with at least as big a budget as the Sofware Development department, in any company producing software.
Open Source software? Unthinkable unless it's sponsored by a large entity who can afford to maintain the required large Regulatory Affairs department.
It works in Health Care. They do one hell of a good job of containing cost. Ask anybody.
Instead, there must be an all too realistic possibility that any formal regulatory system would be dominated by the famous consultblogauthspeakers who spend a career burnishing their profile within the industry, but who in many cases have remarkably little experience actually building working software of their own, never mind working software to a very high quality standard.
They also apparently write columns for TeleCrunch.
Formal verification would not have prevented what took down the NHS. Oh, I suppose it would have, eventually, but we still wouldn't be using Windows XP today, which was the software in question, if it had all had to be formally verified first. The problem that caused the NHS takedown had to do with distribution of patches, updates, and just plain communicating the need to turn off obsolete versions of a networking protocol which had been replaced already.
But you're the one who brought that specific issue up as an example.
Gawker was in the business of making money by stirring up shit. They thought they were going to make a mint and burn up Hogan's fortune at the same time.
Gawker planned on having a jolly good time baiting Hogan in court. They figured he had some money, but they had more and would make even more in the process of the legal proceedings.
Then Thiel came along and said 'fuck this stuff.'
Poor little Denton didn't get to be the biggest bully on the playground.
You should try NetBSD on it. The NetBSD folks don't push the 'bleeding edge' and their current OS even runs on old 68K Macintoshes. All versions on all architectures build from the same source tree, both kernel and userland. There aren't dozens of 'distros' all with their own dogs breakfast of a userland. Cross-platform development by necessity keeps software robust and 'honest.'
Google runs the risk of their advertising not being visible properly if they allow consumers to browse websites with not-current browsers. Selling eyeballs is their top priority, as we all know.
Saying things like that discredits you. There has been a LOT of differentiation between Windows versions. Microsoft has done things that were vast improvements, and they've rolled things back to Windows being a horror show. The quality back and forth is typical of any large organization's product.
Windows started with a brain-damaged USB subsystem that wants to freaking re-install a driver completely if you merely plug a device into another port. Sometimes that's useful when a particular driver instance gets fucked. Windows has maintained that brain damage for over 15 years since then.
Even worse, if the USB subsystem needs to assign a 'Com' port to a USB connection, it will assign a new Com port (Com4, Com5, Com6... Com28) to the same peripheral each time it's plugged into a different USB port on the machine. This can get ridiculous if you, say, are working with an Arduino and lose track of which USB connector you plugged it into last.
It also creates a mess if you have USB to RS-232C adaptors that you mix-and-match to get legacy ports. Eventually you have to dig into the 'Device Manager' and force it to display unconnected drivers to clear out a bunch of the old driver instances.
Your concern about 'what the original republican party stood for' reeks of concern-troll. You have never been a Republican, you have never stood for anything they stood for. Your whole outlook seems very, very conventional. Go Edmund Muskie. Rah-rah Tip O'neil.
Actually, the Trump victory was a kick in the gut to social conservatives. They had their candidates in the primary. It was most definitely not Donald Trump.
There were some good outcomes from the election.
1. Social Conservatives deflated. 2. Bush Dynasty terminated (we can hope) 3. Clinton Dynasty terminated (we can hope, they keep mentioning Chelsea....)
Trump is the Drano president. You don't want the bottle of Drano anywhere but in that cabinet under the sink. But it's a useful thing to have around.
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Just for scale, there is purportedly a ton of gold in every cubic mile of seawater.
I reluctantly went out and bought a Windows 10 license for my desktop machine because it's a homebuilt and the sketchy copy of Windows 7 I was running kept going to a 'this is not a genuine copy of windows' even though I was being very selective about what updates I applied.
Once you wring out all the weirdness and what-not, a Windows 10 desktop looks much the same as a Windows 7 or a Windows XP desktop. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a 'Classic Windows' desktop theme out-of-the-box so I could pretend I was still running Windows 2000, but mostly I am there and it's all the way I want it.
There have always been a cadre of Windows and Microsoft haters here on Slashdot. I have run alternate-OS desktops in the past though I abandoned Linux in about 1998 because of what Red Hat was doing to it (I was a Slackware guy for several years). If I want to run a Freenix I install NetBSD because it's just a regular unix-like, and doesn't try to imitate Windows.
Most of the telemetry you can turn off or disable. I mean, come on, it isn't that hard.
Anyhow, hate on if it fulfills you. But if you run a Mac, you should upgrade. There are plenty of options out there.
From sacker you can go to cashier, or stocker, or apprentice in the meat department, or baker.
I am surprised at a Kroeger that a sacker would be re-delegated to janitor, though. Isn't Kroeger a union shop? When I was a grocery bagger back in 1977, it was a union job and it wouldn't have been common for a lateral transfer to janitor to happen.
You're dodging the bullet with that auditor. Better hope nobody ever audits the auditor.
Why replace it at all?
Every generation of new people wants to rip it all down and replace it. This particularly seems to apply when it comes to software development. Everybody knows, they simply know, that they can do a better job, if we just rip out everything from before and implement it again from scratch.
That has always been the case.
For instance, making root possible for said developers, eh?
simply need to find another career,
Fire them all. In fact, lets get some pitchforks and make DAMN SURE they get fired.
No, that would be illegal. Howabout we have the government do it. Yeah, that's it. From now on, there will be a Regulatory Affairs department, with at least as big a budget as the Sofware Development department, in any company producing software.
Open Source software? Unthinkable unless it's sponsored by a large entity who can afford to maintain the required large Regulatory Affairs department.
It works in Health Care. They do one hell of a good job of containing cost. Ask anybody.
Instead, there must be an all too realistic possibility that any formal regulatory system would be dominated by the famous consultblogauthspeakers who spend a career burnishing their profile within the industry, but who in many cases have remarkably little experience actually building working software of their own, never mind working software to a very high quality standard.
They also apparently write columns for TeleCrunch.
Formal verification would not have prevented what took down the NHS. Oh, I suppose it would have, eventually, but we still wouldn't be using Windows XP today, which was the software in question, if it had all had to be formally verified first. The problem that caused the NHS takedown had to do with distribution of patches, updates, and just plain communicating the need to turn off obsolete versions of a networking protocol which had been replaced already.
But you're the one who brought that specific issue up as an example.
and requires two paragraphs in the Wikipedia article to explain the name.
A guy named Lamport writes an extension for a software tool called TeX. TeX is typesetting software written by Donald Knuth.
Two paragraphs required? I did a good job with two sentences. Somebody at Wikipedia was bored.
Gawker was in the business of making money by stirring up shit. They thought they were going to make a mint and burn up Hogan's fortune at the same time.
Ooops.
Gawker planned on having a jolly good time baiting Hogan in court. They figured he had some money, but they had more and would make even more in the process of the legal proceedings.
Then Thiel came along and said 'fuck this stuff.'
Poor little Denton didn't get to be the biggest bully on the playground.
Trotsky is incompatible with just about everything but selling newspapers at the lit table in the student union.
You should try NetBSD on it. The NetBSD folks don't push the 'bleeding edge' and their current OS even runs on old 68K Macintoshes. All versions on all architectures build from the same source tree, both kernel and userland. There aren't dozens of 'distros' all with their own dogs breakfast of a userland. Cross-platform development by necessity keeps software robust and 'honest.'
Google runs the risk of their advertising not being visible properly if they allow consumers to browse websites with not-current browsers. Selling eyeballs is their top priority, as we all know.
My newest Macs are a pair of iMac G4s, so I am bound to the older versions.
Saying things like that discredits you. There has been a LOT of differentiation between Windows versions. Microsoft has done things that were vast improvements, and they've rolled things back to Windows being a horror show. The quality back and forth is typical of any large organization's product.
Windows started with a brain-damaged USB subsystem that wants to freaking re-install a driver completely if you merely plug a device into another port. Sometimes that's useful when a particular driver instance gets fucked. Windows has maintained that brain damage for over 15 years since then.
Even worse, if the USB subsystem needs to assign a 'Com' port to a USB connection, it will assign a new Com port (Com4, Com5, Com6... Com28) to the same peripheral each time it's plugged into a different USB port on the machine. This can get ridiculous if you, say, are working with an Arduino and lose track of which USB connector you plugged it into last.
It also creates a mess if you have USB to RS-232C adaptors that you mix-and-match to get legacy ports. Eventually you have to dig into the 'Device Manager' and force it to display unconnected drivers to clear out a bunch of the old driver instances.
0-60 in 5.6 seconds sounds like a safety hazard to me. It also sounds like about a 50% reduction in driving range.
As an American, perhaps you do.
Is there a place we can chip in to pay toward the $385 fine? I could donate a fiver.
Your concern about 'what the original republican party stood for' reeks of concern-troll. You have never been a Republican, you have never stood for anything they stood for. Your whole outlook seems very, very conventional. Go Edmund Muskie. Rah-rah Tip O'neil.
*shrug*
Actually, the Trump victory was a kick in the gut to social conservatives. They had their candidates in the primary. It was most definitely not Donald Trump.
There were some good outcomes from the election.
1. Social Conservatives deflated.
2. Bush Dynasty terminated (we can hope)
3. Clinton Dynasty terminated (we can hope, they keep mentioning Chelsea....)
Trump is the Drano president. You don't want the bottle of Drano anywhere but in that cabinet under the sink. But it's a useful thing to have around.
USAF is now under a massive attack from the far right esp. at the academy.
Wow. I bet they have air support to defend themselves, though.
Or do you mean that citizens of the US are engaged in advocacy?
Your country incarcerates people at over 5 times the rate of China.
Everybody who lives in a one-party state is pretty much incarcerated.
Yes, it's more complex than that.