Over the past few days I have been in three situations where I was a passenger in a moving vehicle, sometimes a fast moving vehicle, only for the driver to pull out their phone and start playing. Talk about scary, I would rather be in a car with a drunk driver. So phones have these handy little things called accelerometers. Should not one of the first thoughts have been "how can we prevent people from playing while driving?" I call that wreckless.
Ask them to please show some decency and stop playing while I am a passenger? Nope. "I'm just fine driving like this." -- as they start to drift off the road -- plus they gotta level up or whatever. I'm left with making a list of who not to get into a moving vehicle with if they are driving and hoping this whole things blows over.
You assume we all want a full DE. You can find me in Open Box or awesome running a few terminal emulator sessions, and whatever ever else. Let's talk shells, terminal emulators and everything under the hood.
DISCLAIMER 1: The way I prefer to operate a computer is my preference. I do not possess any malice or arrogance against those who prefer other things but in this case I am standing up for myself.
DISCLAIMER 2: I do sometimes like to run Bungie with Tint2, it stays out of the way.
Slackware was the first distro I ever installed. Back in 1996 I managed to install it on a 486 DX 50. I had no clue what I was getting into and when I was finally able to startx, I ended up in TWM. I was like "huh?" I temporarily ditched Slackware and pursued other distros while immersing myself in research and learning. After flirtations with Turbo Linux and SUSE (YAST really got my attention), I had learned a lot and went back to Slackware. It was my go to distro for a very long time. On the one hand, I still call it my favorite distro. On the other hand, I haven't seriously used it in a very long time after it became cumbersome relative to all the newcomers that followed. Perhaps I will give this a spin.
As far as SystemD goes, I don't care one way or another. With SystemD (I know I will get down modded for this, but I'm still not posting AC) I can use every last utility I have ever used to scour init, and I don't mind parallel initialization. In fact I think it's pretty cool. So whatever. But yeah, Slackware is awesome.
The person who reported this story is a known AMD shill. Don't get me wrong, I am actually a big AMD fan and am excited about their upcoming new CPU architecture, but this should be taken with a grain of salt. Let the real reviews come in. Maybe the card really will be this great, but I am not going to consider one based on this biased review.
Can we go back to calling it programming yet? Code is the product of programming. Code is something you create and put to use through programming. Unless of course you say "coding" as a verb.
Okay so let's say that overall this concept makes sense. What are you to do if you have several people, who just happen to have different brains, all needing to process different parts at different speeds? You could argue that it's all good if your watching alone, but that could then become maddening when watching TV with other people, who may only be able to watch at normal speed anyway.
As a Classic owner, I don't get BlackBerry releasing the Priv without a keyboard that has the distinct BB textured keyboard and the all mighty tool belt. Granted, for the toolbelt they would need to bring more BB10 features over to Android then just the hub (which is cool). These things should have their top driving motivations. If you are going make it or break it, you don't make a device that is the same old same old, slap a substandard keyboard on, and then try to sell it for way too fucking much. They had the chance to build an innovative phone based with a launcher taking heavily from BB10 without totally ignoring the Google Now launcher interface. It could have been awesome.
People who see me with a Classic ask why I don't just get Priv or any other Android phone. They just don't get my kind of nerd. I have no allegiance to the BlackBerry brand past BB10. It's one of the greatest operating systems\interface I have ever had the pleasure of using.
I get that their **dying, but I will use my Classic until it is no longer supported.
**Still buying their cheap ass stock just in case : )
"Solarin is pioneering new, uncompromising privacy measures to provide customers with greater confidence and the reassurance necessary to handle business-critical information."
Selling a secure phone (whatever that even means) but with such weeping, drooling, confident marketing speak... Well, they are just begging to be a target. This is assuming they have written their own super-duper security software version 1.0. Either this is total bullshit or they will end up with egg on their via courtesy of their hubris. Hell, if I can bypass the lock screen on an encrypted BlackBerry...
Ten or so years ago I could not have imagined that someday I would not be a Mac user. OS X was part of my holy trinity of favorite operating systems. Linux had long since established it's mainstay, while FreeBSD was and is just plain fantastic as a server os.
People argue that Apple's whole lineup was and continues to grow stale. This is true, but I personally have no allegiance to brands that put out an OS, I have allegiance to the operating systems. As the first few years of my fling with Apple OS, X seemed to be getting better and better. Minor UI tweaks, smaller and smaller OS. I'm going to get to into because I'm not here to give a review but there was a point for me personally where I felt they just kinda fucked up the whole gui. I was out.
I am very particular of operating systems. I recently got a BlackBerry Classic (and yes I get maid fun of ) Everyone has asked why I didn't get the Priv. Then they are confused since I "Like BlackBerry" yet tell them if I was going to get an Android it would be a Samsung. I try to explain how it all about the os and what that means, but I only receive blank stares.
I have a boxed copy of OS\2 Warp and having wanting to give it it's own dedicated machine. Can anyone suggest a hardware configuration I suppose in the 486 DX real or maybe Pentium 60 with working drivers in mind?
But we need a law that prevents this bullshit with very stiff penalties for these extortion trolls.
Can any slashdoters propose how such legislation would work? Something that prevents this bullshit from getting anywhere near a court of law? Perhaps some sort pre-lawsuit bullshit court that prevents it from getting anywhere at all?
Some years ago while on the job I got so caught up on my projects I found myself with an hour or two to kill everyday for a couple weeks. (Disclaimer: I hid the fact I was caught up early.) Now I am the curious type, especially when it comes to networks and security. Needless to say, I started poking around. Poking around quickly led to hacking around. It was an internal LAN, but still. I followed the bread crumbs and uncovered, lets just say "stuff that was not intended to be uncovered. Much more followed from that. It reached a point where it was down right concerning. So finally I crossed my fingers and called my boss over, who of course was not a tech. He was concerned bordering on unhappy about what I was doing. The next day I got a call from the CIO, which is highly unusual. We had a very long talk about what I had been up to. The talk extended into a discussion of my knowledge and abilities which up till then no one in the company knew I had. I don't remember which hacker topic it was, but at one point the CIO said "fuck me" he did not mean it literally. The result? The CIO gave me permission to keep on hacking our systems as long as I documented everything and reported directly to him. Up to that point, my initial finding resulted in ten or so pages of documentation. It was pretty cool.
A bit off topic. Although I liked my job I found myself in a situation where I had to pick up and move. The details of that are unimportant, but I made sure I had a job waiting for me. Before I left the company, the CIO installed a keystroke logger on my computer. Since I was the only one running Linux, it was my personal computer. The CIO, was one of the single best hackers I have had the pleasure of meeting. Next thing I know I was signed up for a bazillion newsletters and I noticed a Sony Erickson had accessed my Google account. It took me all of one second to figure out what had happened. Fortunately it was all fun and games, nothing malicious. Although I did proceed to reformat the drives in all of my computers and proceeded to change every password I used (a lot) to random alphanumerics every week for a couple of months. Fun stuff.
The Open Source folks are generally about it being a better development model. On a long enough timeline Open Source software will outperform proprietary software. It will become the best tool for the job.
While I am not disputing the superiority of the dev model, the Linux kernel be a prime example, past that the time line you speak of has proven to be longer than fast paced industry is willing to slow themselves down for. Granted, if such models had been adapted to commercial software, we would likely not be in the malware apocalypse we are in now. Unfortunately that is just not how it works. Best tool for the job is far to broad a statement, unless you are already on Open Source developer, then yeah.
For as long as I can remember, the Open Source community has been staunch in their attitude of FOSS only while also screaming bloody murder that FOSS must and will go fully mainstream.
Personally, I have long held that this approach is not productive and is even destructive. This thinking has set the Open Source world back for too long. I have been using Linux and Open Source software since 1996 and have always perceived this as a dogmatic approach. You can't have your cake and it too. A few years ago I used Macs along side Linux. It was a work thing but I used OS X for years. How did I work that? I ran and enjoyed the commercial software on my Mac, however, with X Windows already built in and having a great console as well as Darwin Ports. I was able to still use all of the software I used on Linux. It was a best of both worlds. Open and closed source do not have to be mutually exclusive, as I proved to myself. As it always has been, I am overwhelmingly a Linux user. It used to be I kept a "just in case" Windows box around. With Wine working so very well these days. The Windows box is collecting dust while I go ahead and install closed source Windows software for those areas where Linux lacks. That sort of leveraging works very well for me.
If I remember correctly, initial funding was largely provided by Linux users with the promise their product would work with it. Now it's Windows only. How many times can they backtrack? Is there no end to this bullshit?
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The very worst are those that depend on collision detection as infallible.
Over the past few days I have been in three situations where I was a passenger in a moving vehicle, sometimes a fast moving vehicle, only for the driver to pull out their phone and start playing. Talk about scary, I would rather be in a car with a drunk driver. So phones have these handy little things called accelerometers. Should not one of the first thoughts have been "how can we prevent people from playing while driving?" I call that wreckless.
Ask them to please show some decency and stop playing while I am a passenger? Nope. "I'm just fine driving like this." -- as they start to drift off the road -- plus they gotta level up or whatever. I'm left with making a list of who not to get into a moving vehicle with if they are driving and hoping this whole things blows over.
You assume we all want a full DE. You can find me in Open Box or awesome running a few terminal emulator sessions, and whatever ever else. Let's talk shells, terminal emulators and everything under the hood.
DISCLAIMER 1: The way I prefer to operate a computer is my preference. I do not possess any malice or arrogance against those who prefer other things but in this case I am standing up for myself.
DISCLAIMER 2: I do sometimes like to run Bungie with Tint2, it stays out of the way.
Slackware was the first distro I ever installed. Back in 1996 I managed to install it on a 486 DX 50. I had no clue what I was getting into and when I was finally able to startx, I ended up in TWM. I was like "huh?" I temporarily ditched Slackware and pursued other distros while immersing myself in research and learning. After flirtations with Turbo Linux and SUSE (YAST really got my attention), I had learned a lot and went back to Slackware. It was my go to distro for a very long time. On the one hand, I still call it my favorite distro. On the other hand, I haven't seriously used it in a very long time after it became cumbersome relative to all the newcomers that followed. Perhaps I will give this a spin.
As far as SystemD goes, I don't care one way or another. With SystemD (I know I will get down modded for this, but I'm still not posting AC) I can use every last utility I have ever used to scour init, and I don't mind parallel initialization. In fact I think it's pretty cool. So whatever. But yeah, Slackware is awesome.
The person who reported this story is a known AMD shill. Don't get me wrong, I am actually a big AMD fan and am excited about their upcoming new CPU architecture, but this should be taken with a grain of salt. Let the real reviews come in. Maybe the card really will be this great, but I am not going to consider one based on this biased review.
Can we go back to calling it programming yet? Code is the product of programming. Code is something you create and put to use through programming. Unless of course you say "coding" as a verb.
OBEY. Money is your god. OBEY. Happiness is slavery. OBEY. Authority is safety. OBEY.
I was going to do all that in caps and quote a bunch from They Live, but silly SLASHDOT accused me of YELLING.
Okay so let's say that overall this concept makes sense. What are you to do if you have several people, who just happen to have different brains, all needing to process different parts at different speeds? You could argue that it's all good if your watching alone, but that could then become maddening when watching TV with other people, who may only be able to watch at normal speed anyway.
As a Classic owner, I don't get BlackBerry releasing the Priv without a keyboard that has the distinct BB textured keyboard and the all mighty tool belt. Granted, for the toolbelt they would need to bring more BB10 features over to Android then just the hub (which is cool). These things should have their top driving motivations. If you are going make it or break it, you don't make a device that is the same old same old, slap a substandard keyboard on, and then try to sell it for way too fucking much. They had the chance to build an innovative phone based with a launcher taking heavily from BB10 without totally ignoring the Google Now launcher interface. It could have been awesome.
People who see me with a Classic ask why I don't just get Priv or any other Android phone. They just don't get my kind of nerd. I have no allegiance to the BlackBerry brand past BB10. It's one of the greatest operating systems\interface I have ever had the pleasure of using.
I get that their **dying, but I will use my Classic until it is no longer supported.
**Still buying their cheap ass stock just in case : )
Not at the moment. However, there may come a point where AI insists their works are copyrighted. We are teaching them to be human after all.
Selling a secure phone (whatever that even means) but with such weeping, drooling, confident marketing speak... Well, they are just begging to be a target. This is assuming they have written their own super-duper security software version 1.0. Either this is total bullshit or they will end up with egg on their via courtesy of their hubris. Hell, if I can bypass the lock screen on an encrypted BlackBerry...
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
Ten or so years ago I could not have imagined that someday I would not be a Mac user. OS X was part of my holy trinity of favorite operating systems. Linux had long since established it's mainstay, while FreeBSD was and is just plain fantastic as a server os.
People argue that Apple's whole lineup was and continues to grow stale. This is true, but I personally have no allegiance to brands that put out an OS, I have allegiance to the operating systems. As the first few years of my fling with Apple OS, X seemed to be getting better and better. Minor UI tweaks, smaller and smaller OS. I'm going to get to into because I'm not here to give a review but there was a point for me personally where I felt they just kinda fucked up the whole gui. I was out.
I am very particular of operating systems. I recently got a BlackBerry Classic (and yes I get maid fun of ) Everyone has asked why I didn't get the Priv. Then they are confused since I "Like BlackBerry" yet tell them if I was going to get an Android it would be a Samsung. I try to explain how it all about the os and what that means, but I only receive blank stares.
This covers your questions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
I have a boxed copy of OS\2 Warp and having wanting to give it it's own dedicated machine. Can anyone suggest a hardware configuration I suppose in the 486 DX real or maybe Pentium 60 with working drivers in mind?
I would bet a case of beer that this is simply AI research. That said, I don't have a problem with it.
I would have thought the number would be higher.
But we need a law that prevents this bullshit with very stiff penalties for these extortion trolls.
Can any slashdoters propose how such legislation would work? Something that prevents this bullshit from getting anywhere near a court of law? Perhaps some sort pre-lawsuit bullshit court that prevents it from getting anywhere at all?
It's nice to know that my Blackberry Classic has a friend in the business.
Okay so it's not exactly the same.
Some years ago while on the job I got so caught up on my projects I found myself with an hour or two to kill everyday for a couple weeks. (Disclaimer: I hid the fact I was caught up early.) Now I am the curious type, especially when it comes to networks and security. Needless to say, I started poking around. Poking around quickly led to hacking around. It was an internal LAN, but still. I followed the bread crumbs and uncovered, lets just say "stuff that was not intended to be uncovered. Much more followed from that. It reached a point where it was down right concerning. So finally I crossed my fingers and called my boss over, who of course was not a tech. He was concerned bordering on unhappy about what I was doing. The next day I got a call from the CIO, which is highly unusual. We had a very long talk about what I had been up to. The talk extended into a discussion of my knowledge and abilities which up till then no one in the company knew I had. I don't remember which hacker topic it was, but at one point the CIO said "fuck me" he did not mean it literally. The result? The CIO gave me permission to keep on hacking our systems as long as I documented everything and reported directly to him. Up to that point, my initial finding resulted in ten or so pages of documentation. It was pretty cool.
A bit off topic. Although I liked my job I found myself in a situation where I had to pick up and move. The details of that are unimportant, but I made sure I had a job waiting for me. Before I left the company, the CIO installed a keystroke logger on my computer. Since I was the only one running Linux, it was my personal computer. The CIO, was one of the single best hackers I have had the pleasure of meeting. Next thing I know I was signed up for a bazillion newsletters and I noticed a Sony Erickson had accessed my Google account. It took me all of one second to figure out what had happened. Fortunately it was all fun and games, nothing malicious. Although I did proceed to reformat the drives in all of my computers and proceeded to change every password I used (a lot) to random alphanumerics every week for a couple of months. Fun stuff.
I will remember never to engage in a hire-able offence.
Multi-Source? Anyhow, it's all about moving forward.
While I am not disputing the superiority of the dev model, the Linux kernel be a prime example, past that the time line you speak of has proven to be longer than fast paced industry is willing to slow themselves down for. Granted, if such models had been adapted to commercial software, we would likely not be in the malware apocalypse we are in now. Unfortunately that is just not how it works. Best tool for the job is far to broad a statement, unless you are already on Open Source developer, then yeah.
For as long as I can remember, the Open Source community has been staunch in their attitude of FOSS only while also screaming bloody murder that FOSS must and will go fully mainstream.
Personally, I have long held that this approach is not productive and is even destructive. This thinking has set the Open Source world back for too long. I have been using Linux and Open Source software since 1996 and have always perceived this as a dogmatic approach. You can't have your cake and it too. A few years ago I used Macs along side Linux. It was a work thing but I used OS X for years. How did I work that? I ran and enjoyed the commercial software on my Mac, however, with X Windows already built in and having a great console as well as Darwin Ports. I was able to still use all of the software I used on Linux. It was a best of both worlds. Open and closed source do not have to be mutually exclusive, as I proved to myself. As it always has been, I am overwhelmingly a Linux user. It used to be I kept a "just in case" Windows box around. With Wine working so very well these days. The Windows box is collecting dust while I go ahead and install closed source Windows software for those areas where Linux lacks. That sort of leveraging works very well for me.
So there you go folks, food for thought.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
If I remember correctly, initial funding was largely provided by Linux users with the promise their product would work with it. Now it's Windows only. How many times can they backtrack? Is there no end to this bullshit?