I wish I was an astroturfer. It would sure as hell pay more than my job, and if the stuff I posted above is all they'd ask of me, then I'm fine with getting a salary for just writing the truth.
However, you might want to post something that seems less like you sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LALALA" at the world.
Well, your 8 hours has easily been matched by the 4 hours I spent trying to get wireless working and the next 2-3 hours that I spent on the above issue. The difference between you and me is that you got a working system out of it at the end - I still have work to do to get my laptop back up and running again.
Don't get me wrong, I don't actually dislike Linux - otherwise I wouldn't have bothered installing it. It has it's place in the ecosystem (for example, on a laptop I don't want to buy a Windows license for). But, to pretend that it is fantastic while Windows is shit is frankly delusional.
I have Xubuntu on my laptop. 'Additional Drivers' recommended I install nouveau, knowing it has no proper 3D support but without telling me anything other than it's experimental - so when it came to try running something that did require 3D, it didn't work. I removed Nouveau and 'Additional Drivers' came back up with the proprietary drivers to install, so I did that. nvidia-settings then told me it needed to rewrite my Xorg config in order to boot correctly.
It stopped booting correctly.
I booted into recovery mode, and I had to rebuild a generic Xorg config to actually get into the desktop. It turns out that the 'Additional Drivers' option installed nVidia drivers that aren't compatible with my graphics card, despite recommending them to me. I tried to install the correct nVidia drivers, only to be confronted by the message that I have broken packages, which I didn't before this whole thing started. When I try to fix them, I get a message "Can't fix broken packages - some of your packages are broken."
To summarise:
- Xubuntu recommended I install graphics card drivers that don't perform all the features of my card - Xubuntu then recommended I install graphics card drivers that don't work with my graphics card - In the process, Xubuntu corrupted some of my packages. - It can't now repair those packages because they're broken.
Let's compare this to Windows. I had an issue with my ATI drivers. I downloaded newer ATI drivers and installed them. The problem went away.
So just consider, when you sit there and call Windows shit, it's still far more usable and far more polished than Linux is.
No, he implied that spelling something incorrectly deliberately is immature, and I would agree - it's easy to get your point across without resorting to that level of pettiness.
It's like all the "witty" commenters who spell Microsoft as "M$", as if they're providing insight by pointing out companies are legally bound to make a profit.
Children aren't yet "someone", yet will become someone when taught their rights and responsibilities. This also includes showing them the consequences when they don't exercise those responsibilities.
How many previous incidents have there been with this kid? Had the teachers already attempted discipline? Unless you're actually a teacher at that school, I would wager that you have no idea how appropriate police intervention was in this case, and neither do I. The difference between us is I'm advocating teaching and disciplining children, whereas you're advocating letting them do what they want while disarming parents and teachers of the tools to escalate serious incidents.
(Incidentally, a child being charged with a crime is not the same as sending a child to jail, and to insinuate otherwise is disingenuous at best.)
There is a massive difference between hotornot.com, a site where people post pictures voluntarily and people are rated by complete strangers they will never meet, and the kind of systematic bullying and abuse that can happen in a classroom to kids who are not emotionally fully developed as a result of things like this.
It is up to people in responsibility to show children how to act responsibly. The kind of "stand back and let 'em sort it out themselves" attitude you're advocating is not helpful in the slightest.
It is possible to disagree with PJ and not be financially motivated, sexist or any other of the things you randomly accused him of being.
If we followed your reasoning, we could only conclude you're jealous of Florian Mueller - after all, you seem to respond to all his posts and attack him, so what else could it be?
I was most amused about the fact that they corrected the story on Slashdot... because they didn't mention Yahoo HTTPS is a paid for service. The actual false story remained up and unchallenged until now, despite the many comments saying it was wrong.
What's the point replacing it if the phone is still vulnerable afterwards? Or do Apple have a policy of taking phones you report as vulnerable to malware and replacing them with the next model up?
They won't try to drag you into court. They'll send you a bill for your imagined offense, threatening court, and the bill will be less than your court defense would cost. You'll pay it, because that's the cheapest solution. That's justice, American style.
I'm sure the bill will be less than their court costs, too. Sounds a good old-fashioned bluff-calling would be in order.
Correctly if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the iPad had anything like Group Policy or, in fact, any method of managing applications on the device remotely from a central location?
I imagine that would be make or break in larger organisations.
Your analogy is not valid, because people who negotiate their options before they buy would never be in a position where they were trying to get a refund for an item after they purchased it.
It is a single product, in the same way the spoiler on a car is. Just because you can take that off and replace it with your own doesn't mean you get the money back for the one you removed.
If you don't like it, there's plenty of cars without spoilers you can buy.
Funny that... It's almost as if that if you come up with something first, you don't have to indemnify against it, because you clearly came up with it independently. Crazy. There should be a name for this... previous work? The Before-made?
As far as I can tell, OpenGL as a whole is probably on a par with DirectX, except that finalisation of a version number of OpenGL has to be done by committee. o, where you have Microsoft talking to graphics card providers first and agreeing a standard on where DirectX is going to go next, for OpenGL each manufacturer implements their own proprietary extensions and then the OpenGL committee decides later which of those is going to be standardised.
This means that although OpenGL as a whole has on a par feature-wise with DirectX, you have a situation by which any version of DirectX will be inherently ahead of any given version of OpenGL, because programmers really don't want to code graphics to extensions that only exist for one company.
As much as I don't like linking to Wiki, they do have a good comparison here. However, considering it's mostly original research, despite the fact that it's one of the more useful articles there it will probably be deleted sooner or later.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish I was an astroturfer. It would sure as hell pay more than my job, and if the stuff I posted above is all they'd ask of me, then I'm fine with getting a salary for just writing the truth.
However, you might want to post something that seems less like you sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LALALA" at the world.
Well, your 8 hours has easily been matched by the 4 hours I spent trying to get wireless working and the next 2-3 hours that I spent on the above issue. The difference between you and me is that you got a working system out of it at the end - I still have work to do to get my laptop back up and running again.
Don't get me wrong, I don't actually dislike Linux - otherwise I wouldn't have bothered installing it. It has it's place in the ecosystem (for example, on a laptop I don't want to buy a Windows license for). But, to pretend that it is fantastic while Windows is shit is frankly delusional.
I have Xubuntu on my laptop. 'Additional Drivers' recommended I install nouveau, knowing it has no proper 3D support but without telling me anything other than it's experimental - so when it came to try running something that did require 3D, it didn't work. I removed Nouveau and 'Additional Drivers' came back up with the proprietary drivers to install, so I did that. nvidia-settings then told me it needed to rewrite my Xorg config in order to boot correctly.
It stopped booting correctly.
I booted into recovery mode, and I had to rebuild a generic Xorg config to actually get into the desktop. It turns out that the 'Additional Drivers' option installed nVidia drivers that aren't compatible with my graphics card, despite recommending them to me. I tried to install the correct nVidia drivers, only to be confronted by the message that I have broken packages, which I didn't before this whole thing started. When I try to fix them, I get a message "Can't fix broken packages - some of your packages are broken."
To summarise:
- Xubuntu recommended I install graphics card drivers that don't perform all the features of my card
- Xubuntu then recommended I install graphics card drivers that don't work with my graphics card
- In the process, Xubuntu corrupted some of my packages.
- It can't now repair those packages because they're broken.
Let's compare this to Windows. I had an issue with my ATI drivers. I downloaded newer ATI drivers and installed them. The problem went away.
So just consider, when you sit there and call Windows shit, it's still far more usable and far more polished than Linux is.
No, he implied that spelling something incorrectly deliberately is immature, and I would agree - it's easy to get your point across without resorting to that level of pettiness.
It's like all the "witty" commenters who spell Microsoft as "M$", as if they're providing insight by pointing out companies are legally bound to make a profit.
Who cares about Windows? That's not what's under discussion here.
Children aren't yet "someone", yet will become someone when taught their rights and responsibilities. This also includes showing them the consequences when they don't exercise those responsibilities.
How many previous incidents have there been with this kid? Had the teachers already attempted discipline? Unless you're actually a teacher at that school, I would wager that you have no idea how appropriate police intervention was in this case, and neither do I. The difference between us is I'm advocating teaching and disciplining children, whereas you're advocating letting them do what they want while disarming parents and teachers of the tools to escalate serious incidents.
(Incidentally, a child being charged with a crime is not the same as sending a child to jail, and to insinuate otherwise is disingenuous at best.)
If you think someone has committed a crime, is it not responsible to call the police?
There is a massive difference between hotornot.com, a site where people post pictures voluntarily and people are rated by complete strangers they will never meet, and the kind of systematic bullying and abuse that can happen in a classroom to kids who are not emotionally fully developed as a result of things like this.
It is up to people in responsibility to show children how to act responsibly. The kind of "stand back and let 'em sort it out themselves" attitude you're advocating is not helpful in the slightest.
Bad analogy, because rain isn't a human being capable of critical thought that can decide not to be an asshole and flood a basement.
The platform is called Palladium
and Microsoft dumped it 7 years ago.
It is possible to disagree with PJ and not be financially motivated, sexist or any other of the things you randomly accused him of being.
If we followed your reasoning, we could only conclude you're jealous of Florian Mueller - after all, you seem to respond to all his posts and attack him, so what else could it be?
I was most amused about the fact that they corrected the story on Slashdot... because they didn't mention Yahoo HTTPS is a paid for service. The actual false story remained up and unchallenged until now, despite the many comments saying it was wrong.
Apparently it was a bug:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/26/microsoft_https_hotmail_syria/
What's the point replacing it if the phone is still vulnerable afterwards? Or do Apple have a policy of taking phones you report as vulnerable to malware and replacing them with the next model up?
They won't try to drag you into court. They'll send you a bill for your imagined offense, threatening court, and the bill will be less than your court defense would cost. You'll pay it, because that's the cheapest solution. That's justice, American style.
I'm sure the bill will be less than their court costs, too. Sounds a good old-fashioned bluff-calling would be in order.
Selling crack, and running over schoolkids with your car?
What evidence have you seen that e-mail hosting providers wipe accounts without instruction from their customers?
If they started doing that, it would basically be the same as kicking their own customers in the nuts and telling them to switch provider.
Correctly if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the iPad had anything like Group Policy or, in fact, any method of managing applications on the device remotely from a central location?
I imagine that would be make or break in larger organisations.
Okay, let me make my comment simpler.
Your analogy is not valid, because people who negotiate their options before they buy would never be in a position where they were trying to get a refund for an item after they purchased it.
Option packages are negotiated on cars all the time.
That's great, but how is that even vaguely related to people buying pre-packaged computers and then complaining they got things they didn't want?
Car analogy time!
It is a single product, in the same way the spoiler on a car is. Just because you can take that off and replace it with your own doesn't mean you get the money back for the one you removed.
If you don't like it, there's plenty of cars without spoilers you can buy.
Funny that... It's almost as if that if you come up with something first, you don't have to indemnify against it, because you clearly came up with it independently. Crazy. There should be a name for this... previous work? The Before-made?
Which sounds good until you go to work in the real world and need to email test programs back and forth.
That's why, here in the real world, we implement a little thing called "whitelisting".
As far as I can tell, OpenGL as a whole is probably on a par with DirectX, except that finalisation of a version number of OpenGL has to be done by committee. o, where you have Microsoft talking to graphics card providers first and agreeing a standard on where DirectX is going to go next, for OpenGL each manufacturer implements their own proprietary extensions and then the OpenGL committee decides later which of those is going to be standardised.
This means that although OpenGL as a whole has on a par feature-wise with DirectX, you have a situation by which any version of DirectX will be inherently ahead of any given version of OpenGL, because programmers really don't want to code graphics to extensions that only exist for one company.
As much as I don't like linking to Wiki, they do have a good comparison here. However, considering it's mostly original research, despite the fact that it's one of the more useful articles there it will probably be deleted sooner or later.
It's per household.