To feed the troll or not to feed the troll...? Okay, here's some kibbles and bits. In fact I was most certainly employed in the music industry, however local. No less, I paid taxes and everything. Yes, I even got paid!!! It was decent too. I would rattle off everything I handed which was substantial, but that is not the point of my submission. Look, I am sorry your presumably tech resume didn't cut it during that time. Many of ours did not. I am also sorry you did not look outside the box like I did resulting in one of the most enriching and exciting employment stretches I will probably ever have. I have missed it so much, I am ditching tech outside of economic reasons to get back in.
First, AC, you don't know me by the slightest. Second, I am specifically referring to Open Source software on the software side, and obviously propriety hardware on the hardware side and how the do or do not work together. There isn't even a story to read you silly AC, at least read the summary before being an ass. Afterwards, you can still be an ass if you like.
I has someone who has had success with more hardware interfaces since submitting this story, could you please specify the hardware you had problems with?
But they sure are fucking up every inch of the roll out making it much more unattractive than it should be. Someone should remind them that patience is a virtue.
While the culprit turned out to be something else, I think it speaks volumes that the folks at Mint jumped straight to the conclusion that it was a WordPress hack. WordPress must be among the must frequently targeted and compromised systems on the web. To a large degree, you can pin this on market share. But over the years, the many cries pointing out the insecurities in WordPress have not been entirely without merit. Hence the first conclusion. The great thing of course about Wordpress is that you can slap together a kick ass site with modern features pretty quick and with very little skill. Updating and maintaining is even simpler. I think this is best for people that really are helpless when it comes to web design. Personally, I would like to see a fork or similar that puts a strong and immediate focus on tight site security, with hardening, logging, and alarm measures all throughout, with an entire security control panel that would be above the heads of most. I am speaking of an implementation that would be impossible for the tech illiterate, but fresh air those of us who would understand what we would be looking at and configuring. I can hammer out my own HTML/CSS/Javascript, etc... But unfortunately building a CMS is in fact out of my league. But it seems to me that when I setup a WordPress site, I spend more time auditing, documenting, manually altering and trying to hack it than I do building the site.
I've actually been experimenting with alternate search engines. Although they are all based on google and or bing. Yahoo is not on my list at all. I am not sure what is behind webcrawler these days (yes, either still around or back). But they have a moderate button right next to search. They still have ads at the top, but the super simplicity of the layout makes clear what is what. The moderate link offers pretty slim options, but they are very sane options. If google has something similar, it is not front and center so I have never seen it.
I remember at the very first of the year Google was trying something new. The number of advertisements before the search results had doubled. I was pretty pissed. Apparently so were a lot of other people and Google listened because I don't think it lasted more than a week. There are already posts below this that mention the sidebar is actually an ideal place for ads because there is no room for confusion, and that this might be the reason they are "dropping" them. After all, the ads must still be present somehow. The fact of the matter is, Google's bread and butter is advertising. It is what they do. There is likely no perfect way to insert ads into Google search results, yet they still must do it for the sake of their bottom line. They have no choice (awaiting arguments against that statement). All I can say is at least they try mixing things up from time to time to make things more palatable (awaiting argument against that wording). I personally believe online advertising is a far less effective than consultants numbers say kind of deal, and that eventually companies will figure that out and there will be a bubble burst. I see an eventual future with far less advertising that costs more but is also more effective over the current situation where we are faced with so many ads, even if there is something in there of interest, they are often overlooked as they all drown each other out. I can say this. I am sick and tired of searching for something oddball on a whim and then having "related" advertising follow me for the next five years. We should at least be able to opt-out of some things. Amazon is even worse about this.
A very short while ago this was not on the top spot as a new story and was in fact a paid advertisement. It even said "paid post" and was in that brownish orange color. Now it's this. WTF?
it is the science being conducted by this company that matters
So here I am not even talking directly about hydrogen powered cars, but the R&D that comes from the research. Further I even state beforehand that this may not work out from an automotive standpoint, merely referring to the science that comes from trying. I even call myself a detractor of what the company is trying to achieve.
No, No it has virtually no potential.
Here you are speaking directly of cars. At this point I am not. With the automotive infrastructure issue noted, hydrogen power has many other potential and practical applications that I am not going to explain here at length. Google is your friend on that one.
Okay, enough blockquotes. You mention the issue where batteries have previously never been good enough to make an electric car practical but that over time they are finally reaching a point where battery powered cars make sense. If this was 25 years ago, you would have been just as cynical over batteries as you are now hydrogen. The ability to mass produce hydrogen so many potential applications I don't even know where to start. The only source material worth trying to extract it from is water, which is currently massively inefficient. It was not long ago that batteries were just the same. So the R&D behind hydrogen powered cars necessitates R&D into producing hydrogen in an efficient way. It's worth trying to get there just as it turned out to be worth pursuing battery technologies that at one point seemed entirely unlikely to pan out. Do you see where this is going? Oh, and if you re-read my last sentence it should be fairly obvious that I was not merely being mockingly cynical, but was no less pointing to an entirely different matter altogether.
I see a lot of detractors chiming in on this company and their claims. To an extent that includes myself. Please keep in mind that whatever reality this does or does not work out to be, it is the science being conducted by this company that matters the most and will bleed into the the future as it is fairly obvious this technology has the potential to eventually be viable.
Wait.... Fuck a duck. All this science is probably covered ten miles deep in patents and "intellectual property". Never mind. Can anyone elaborate on how the Welsh government treats such things?
Not a gamer but thanks for the tip on managing instances. I see that coming in more than handy. Personally I would like to see Wine ported to OS\2 Warp and maybe an upgraded network stack. I still have a boxed copy : P
I remember when Wine was such a joke that many people including myself saw it as unnecessary and going nowhere useful. You could run things like notepad.exe and calc.exe. It was for many an intriguing passing interest and likely an impossibility as far as ever being really useful. A few months ago I found myself in a real pinch. I absolutely had to install and use some Windows software (a very, very rare event). Yet, I am not running a single instance of Windows nor do I have a copy or interest in pirating it. So, not expecting much, I installed Wine for the first time in many years. Well shit. The software installed and ran flawlessly. Kind of amazed, I spent a good day throwing a ton of Windows software of varying complexity at it. Roughly 80% installed and worked perfectly. More recently I found myself staring down a badly and rapidly decaying Ubuntu system (you know what I mean). It also just so happened that there was a DVD burning imperative. The whole dependency subsystem for burning was shot to hell. Brasero, k3b, command line, it didn't matter, nothing was going to work. This was also the worst dependency hell I have ever seen. There was no uninstalling and reinstalling of anything, and I mean anything at all. It wasn't my system and I was soon to nuke it anyway so I wasn't about to take extreme measures. Fortunately I had previously installed Wine on this system. Downloaded and installed... whatever popular Windows DVD burning software. Worked fine. Nuked the system and gave a lecture on how to not blow up Ubuntu.
So that is my Linux\Wine anecdote
I am not about to ditch Linux, but I am going to give the almost beta ReactOS a fair try with a Windows app by app comparison against Linux. Might even be worth writing an article over.
Sarcasm? Not so much. Every office I have ever worked in has a once in a year or two event where a fax not only needs to be sent, it needs sent right away.
Stage one: People in the office scramble trying to figure out which device in the office is doubling as a working fax machine.
Stage two: After a probable device is identified, you have a group of people hovering over it trying to figure out how it works.
Stage three: They call me over to figure it out.
Stage four: I identify that the phone line is not plugged in.
Stage five: I identify that the CEO decided to save a few bucks by making the fax line a shared line with his. The CEO is behind closed doors on an all afternoon call and is not to be disturbed.
Stage five: I turn and walk away with a sardonic smirk, not because I am happy about it. I just can't help it.
I am no social media guru, but I am seeing a slow trend toward abandoning social media. I myself eradicated my facebook account several years ago. Why? So much endless bullshit and a total waste of time. From there I migrated to a young, sparsely populated Google+. It was good for awhile. A few weeks ago I deleted my G+ account. Why? So much bullshit and a total waste of time. Never had a twitter account and never will. I will admit that I am as of recently on Diaspora, and while I have reservations of it turning into so much shit, it is actually pretty easy to tune out what you don't want and most people only post casually and not so frequently since there is no model for a popularity contest in place. It's decentralized, federated model is pretty unique to. Yet I suspect that at some time in the future I will abandon it over... so much bullshit. I know a lot of people from many walks of life who, reluctantly, dropped social media. I know the likes of Facebook and Twitter have massive user bases, but it is a start and the citizens of the internet like trends. Social media is a blight on human civilization, I can only hope that at some point it will in fact come to an end.
Out of morbid curiosity, I just checked out myspace.com. Just from the main page, I have no clue what their aim or angle is, let alone their audience. There is a blurb at the bottom that reads "The Best in Music & Culture. All In One Place." Yet that still doesn't shed a lot of light on whatever the hell that site is supposed to be.
I have a claim to backup. It's pretty rare, but I occasionally encounter a Word doc of some type that LibreOffice pukes on if it will open at all and sometimes flat out crashes the application. Strangely, if I use the otherwise vastly inferior (IMHO) predecessor OpenOffice, those files, so far, reliably open. So I always maintain an installed copy of OpenOffice for this rare event. I am about to install 5.1, maybe this will now be a thing of the past. It will be hard to say since it's pretty rare. I'm not bashing LibreOffice. I love LibreOffice to death. Just pointing something out.
All-in-all I think it is safe to say that word processing, mostly in the MS Office sense, is a disaster area. There is more than a couple posts above this pointing things out along the lines where someone with one version of office saves a file, and someone else one or two versions off opens it and the formatting has gone to hell despite the fact the fact the file type should be compatible between the two. I am sure most of us have been there. This is likely why PDFs are used whenever possible.
I have had the opportunity save and open files across multiple versions of LibreOffice and of different file types going back about five years. Never had a problem. This is LibreOffice to LibreOffice in the absence of MS Office.
All I know is, I am just waiting for a picture of a shirtless Putin on horseback with a laptop mounted on the horses head, personally writing the operating system. While practicing Judo.
a Linux-based system gives them internal control over the source code to the OS they use - they can fork it and do whatever they want with it internally.
There is a point where the GPL demands code changes be published. This of course will not happen. I'm sure it's just the same with China.
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To feed the troll or not to feed the troll...? Okay, here's some kibbles and bits. In fact I was most certainly employed in the music industry, however local. No less, I paid taxes and everything. Yes, I even got paid!!! It was decent too. I would rattle off everything I handed which was substantial, but that is not the point of my submission. Look, I am sorry your presumably tech resume didn't cut it during that time. Many of ours did not. I am also sorry you did not look outside the box like I did resulting in one of the most enriching and exciting employment stretches I will probably ever have. I have missed it so much, I am ditching tech outside of economic reasons to get back in.
First, AC, you don't know me by the slightest. Second, I am specifically referring to Open Source software on the software side, and obviously propriety hardware on the hardware side and how the do or do not work together. There isn't even a story to read you silly AC, at least read the summary before being an ass. Afterwards, you can still be an ass if you like.
I has someone who has had success with more hardware interfaces since submitting this story, could you please specify the hardware you had problems with?
Actually I use a low latency build of the Linux kernel, otherwise you would be right. Jack would be... jacked. It is something I had to learn.
But they sure are fucking up every inch of the roll out making it much more unattractive than it should be. Someone should remind them that patience is a virtue.
Disclaimer, I like WordPress.
While the culprit turned out to be something else, I think it speaks volumes that the folks at Mint jumped straight to the conclusion that it was a WordPress hack. WordPress must be among the must frequently targeted and compromised systems on the web. To a large degree, you can pin this on market share. But over the years, the many cries pointing out the insecurities in WordPress have not been entirely without merit. Hence the first conclusion. The great thing of course about Wordpress is that you can slap together a kick ass site with modern features pretty quick and with very little skill. Updating and maintaining is even simpler. I think this is best for people that really are helpless when it comes to web design. Personally, I would like to see a fork or similar that puts a strong and immediate focus on tight site security, with hardening, logging, and alarm measures all throughout, with an entire security control panel that would be above the heads of most. I am speaking of an implementation that would be impossible for the tech illiterate, but fresh air those of us who would understand what we would be looking at and configuring. I can hammer out my own HTML/CSS/Javascript, etc... But unfortunately building a CMS is in fact out of my league. But it seems to me that when I setup a WordPress site, I spend more time auditing, documenting, manually altering and trying to hack it than I do building the site.
I've actually been experimenting with alternate search engines. Although they are all based on google and or bing. Yahoo is not on my list at all. I am not sure what is behind webcrawler these days (yes, either still around or back). But they have a moderate button right next to search. They still have ads at the top, but the super simplicity of the layout makes clear what is what. The moderate link offers pretty slim options, but they are very sane options. If google has something similar, it is not front and center so I have never seen it.
I remember at the very first of the year Google was trying something new. The number of advertisements before the search results had doubled. I was pretty pissed. Apparently so were a lot of other people and Google listened because I don't think it lasted more than a week. There are already posts below this that mention the sidebar is actually an ideal place for ads because there is no room for confusion, and that this might be the reason they are "dropping" them. After all, the ads must still be present somehow. The fact of the matter is, Google's bread and butter is advertising. It is what they do. There is likely no perfect way to insert ads into Google search results, yet they still must do it for the sake of their bottom line. They have no choice (awaiting arguments against that statement). All I can say is at least they try mixing things up from time to time to make things more palatable (awaiting argument against that wording). I personally believe online advertising is a far less effective than consultants numbers say kind of deal, and that eventually companies will figure that out and there will be a bubble burst. I see an eventual future with far less advertising that costs more but is also more effective over the current situation where we are faced with so many ads, even if there is something in there of interest, they are often overlooked as they all drown each other out. I can say this. I am sick and tired of searching for something oddball on a whim and then having "related" advertising follow me for the next five years. We should at least be able to opt-out of some things. Amazon is even worse about this.
Please provide the results of your investigation.
Okay, so I had never seen that video. Damn near redeeming.
A big one too! But first I'm going to tell the whole fucking internet!
I hate to reply to my self, but when you click on the submitter name "Mark Wilson" he does not exist.
A very short while ago this was not on the top spot as a new story and was in fact a paid advertisement. It even said "paid post" and was in that brownish orange color. Now it's this. WTF?
So here I am not even talking directly about hydrogen powered cars, but the R&D that comes from the research. Further I even state beforehand that this may not work out from an automotive standpoint, merely referring to the science that comes from trying. I even call myself a detractor of what the company is trying to achieve.
Here you are speaking directly of cars. At this point I am not. With the automotive infrastructure issue noted, hydrogen power has many other potential and practical applications that I am not going to explain here at length. Google is your friend on that one.
Okay, enough blockquotes. You mention the issue where batteries have previously never been good enough to make an electric car practical but that over time they are finally reaching a point where battery powered cars make sense. If this was 25 years ago, you would have been just as cynical over batteries as you are now hydrogen. The ability to mass produce hydrogen so many potential applications I don't even know where to start. The only source material worth trying to extract it from is water, which is currently massively inefficient. It was not long ago that batteries were just the same. So the R&D behind hydrogen powered cars necessitates R&D into producing hydrogen in an efficient way. It's worth trying to get there just as it turned out to be worth pursuing battery technologies that at one point seemed entirely unlikely to pan out. Do you see where this is going? Oh, and if you re-read my last sentence it should be fairly obvious that I was not merely being mockingly cynical, but was no less pointing to an entirely different matter altogether.
I see a lot of detractors chiming in on this company and their claims. To an extent that includes myself. Please keep in mind that whatever reality this does or does not work out to be, it is the science being conducted by this company that matters the most and will bleed into the the future as it is fairly obvious this technology has the potential to eventually be viable.
Wait.... Fuck a duck. All this science is probably covered ten miles deep in patents and "intellectual property". Never mind. Can anyone elaborate on how the Welsh government treats such things?
Not a gamer but thanks for the tip on managing instances. I see that coming in more than handy. Personally I would like to see Wine ported to OS\2 Warp and maybe an upgraded network stack. I still have a boxed copy : P
I remember when Wine was such a joke that many people including myself saw it as unnecessary and going nowhere useful. You could run things like notepad.exe and calc.exe. It was for many an intriguing passing interest and likely an impossibility as far as ever being really useful. A few months ago I found myself in a real pinch. I absolutely had to install and use some Windows software (a very, very rare event). Yet, I am not running a single instance of Windows nor do I have a copy or interest in pirating it. So, not expecting much, I installed Wine for the first time in many years. Well shit. The software installed and ran flawlessly. Kind of amazed, I spent a good day throwing a ton of Windows software of varying complexity at it. Roughly 80% installed and worked perfectly. More recently I found myself staring down a badly and rapidly decaying Ubuntu system (you know what I mean). It also just so happened that there was a DVD burning imperative. The whole dependency subsystem for burning was shot to hell. Brasero, k3b, command line, it didn't matter, nothing was going to work. This was also the worst dependency hell I have ever seen. There was no uninstalling and reinstalling of anything, and I mean anything at all. It wasn't my system and I was soon to nuke it anyway so I wasn't about to take extreme measures. Fortunately I had previously installed Wine on this system. Downloaded and installed... whatever popular Windows DVD burning software. Worked fine. Nuked the system and gave a lecture on how to not blow up Ubuntu.
So that is my Linux\Wine anecdote
I am not about to ditch Linux, but I am going to give the almost beta ReactOS a fair try with a Windows app by app comparison against Linux. Might even be worth writing an article over.
Do I mod you up? Do I mod you down? Funny or Troll? Fuck it, I'll just post and admit that was my very first thought too.
Sarcasm? Not so much. Every office I have ever worked in has a once in a year or two event where a fax not only needs to be sent, it needs sent right away.
Stage one: People in the office scramble trying to figure out which device in the office is doubling as a working fax machine.
Stage two: After a probable device is identified, you have a group of people hovering over it trying to figure out how it works.
Stage three: They call me over to figure it out.
Stage four: I identify that the phone line is not plugged in.
Stage five: I identify that the CEO decided to save a few bucks by making the fax line a shared line with his. The CEO is behind closed doors on an all afternoon call and is not to be disturbed.
Stage five: I turn and walk away with a sardonic smirk, not because I am happy about it. I just can't help it.
I am no social media guru, but I am seeing a slow trend toward abandoning social media. I myself eradicated my facebook account several years ago. Why? So much endless bullshit and a total waste of time. From there I migrated to a young, sparsely populated Google+. It was good for awhile. A few weeks ago I deleted my G+ account. Why? So much bullshit and a total waste of time. Never had a twitter account and never will. I will admit that I am as of recently on Diaspora, and while I have reservations of it turning into so much shit, it is actually pretty easy to tune out what you don't want and most people only post casually and not so frequently since there is no model for a popularity contest in place. It's decentralized, federated model is pretty unique to. Yet I suspect that at some time in the future I will abandon it over... so much bullshit. I know a lot of people from many walks of life who, reluctantly, dropped social media. I know the likes of Facebook and Twitter have massive user bases, but it is a start and the citizens of the internet like trends. Social media is a blight on human civilization, I can only hope that at some point it will in fact come to an end.
Out of morbid curiosity, I just checked out myspace.com. Just from the main page, I have no clue what their aim or angle is, let alone their audience. There is a blurb at the bottom that reads "The Best in Music & Culture. All In One Place." Yet that still doesn't shed a lot of light on whatever the hell that site is supposed to be.
I have a claim to backup. It's pretty rare, but I occasionally encounter a Word doc of some type that LibreOffice pukes on if it will open at all and sometimes flat out crashes the application. Strangely, if I use the otherwise vastly inferior (IMHO) predecessor OpenOffice, those files, so far, reliably open. So I always maintain an installed copy of OpenOffice for this rare event. I am about to install 5.1, maybe this will now be a thing of the past. It will be hard to say since it's pretty rare. I'm not bashing LibreOffice. I love LibreOffice to death. Just pointing something out.
All-in-all I think it is safe to say that word processing, mostly in the MS Office sense, is a disaster area. There is more than a couple posts above this pointing things out along the lines where someone with one version of office saves a file, and someone else one or two versions off opens it and the formatting has gone to hell despite the fact the fact the file type should be compatible between the two. I am sure most of us have been there. This is likely why PDFs are used whenever possible.
I have had the opportunity save and open files across multiple versions of LibreOffice and of different file types going back about five years. Never had a problem. This is LibreOffice to LibreOffice in the absence of MS Office.
All I know is, I am just waiting for a picture of a shirtless Putin on horseback with a laptop mounted on the horses head, personally writing the operating system. While practicing Judo.
There is a point where the GPL demands code changes be published. This of course will not happen. I'm sure it's just the same with China.
Pubuntu.