Well... for example, try finding a decent CD burner frontend that doesn't pull in either KDE or Gnome. Or try getting decent support for fast user switching or laptop features like hibernation without getting a big chunk of one of them.
It seems like a lot of development that once would have been done as independant projects that run equally well despite desktop/window manager choice now get implemented as plugins to one of the big two desktops (usually Gnome). It's not that we can't still choose other things but where before it was a completely open choice that Linux users/developers took pride in now it feels more like swimming against the tide.
Forget file browsing. Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend that doesn't pull in a bucketload of either KDE or GNOME dependencies!
I was a long-time KDE user and about a year ago decidedent to experiment with banning both Gnome and KDE from being installed and relying on lightweight window managers. It was only mean to be an experiment, I didn't really expect to go more than a week. Today I am using StumpWM combined with the pager (and only the pager) from Lxde. The only thing I really miss is K3b. Seriously, why does a program that is just a front end to cdrecord, which is more than capable of finding my burner rely on some integral part of KDE. If I install it without KDE it tells me I have no burners! Gnomes equivalent program did the same thing.
I guess I shouldn't complain too loud though. Maybe someday I will take the initiative and write my own burner front-end and not require a bloated desktop to run it. You can write the file manager!
I use Waze (a navigation app) for every trip I make. Google owns it. I don't know what there EULA says but I'm sure they don't just throw away my position reports. And yet.. I use it for every drive, even when I already know the way. Sometimes I think about the fact I'm basically submitting myself to monitoring. I've even considered piecing together some solution with open street map and my own server to avoid this. But... I get real time data. I get warnings about accidents, traffic jams and speed traps up ahead. Countless times it has saved me hours by routing me around accidents on the expressway. On my drive to work there are miles between some of the exits. Simply getting off if the traffic stops moving is not an option.
I grew up in a small midwestern town, technically a village. As a kid I resented the fact that everything I saw on TV or heard on the radio was directed towards places that were as far away and inaccessible to me as the moon. Now I live in a city where this is not such a problem although on the iternet it still feels like some sites I frequent often forget that silicon valley and NYC are not the entire world.
Similarly there is browser tracking. I do share the concern of many Slashdotters that marketing firms know too much about our personal lives. But.. then again.. I consider myself to be a geek and a maker. I love the fact that 'punch the monkey' and 'little blue pill' popups have for me been replaced with ads for Arduinos, components, oscilloscopes and such. I also enjoy obstacle courses and now I see Tough Mudder ads all over the web letting me know when and where to find the next event.
Sometimes I think that I want to start being more private with my data... but.. I kind of feel like I have moved into a different world that I find more interesting and can better relate to. I don't want to give that up.
Well.. the premise of the actual article is that a cure, if possible at all is a really long way out. The author gives some pretty good reasons as to why this is so. Meanwhile, people are suffering today. Better treatments are possible but all of the funding and hype on finding a cure is holding them back.
The article seems pretty anti-cure to me but near the end the author does call for a balance between cure and treatment research rather than completely giving up on the cure.
I think it shows just how unreasonable the anti-gunners can be that they would use weapons export regulations against the sharing of 3d printed gun designs.
If I were in the Pentagon or Homeland Security (theatre) I would ENCOURAGE the export of 3d printed gun designs. Let the enemy blow their own hands and faces off with their plastic guns! Hell, let domestic criminals do the same!
Meanwhile law abiding gun users can just buy them or make them on lathes. Personally I may just try to 3d print a gun some day just to say I did but the only way I am firing it is with a long string tied to the trigger and myself ducked down in a ditch or behind a good strong barrier.
Plastic guns! They make the bogey man sound like a reasonable fear!
Ad it should. But so should assuming the opposite! I just noted that a lot of commenters were taking her side when she very well could have been in the wrong.
A lot of people are commenting about her deserving a fulfilling career or about children needing a parent around and all sorts of stuff like that. That's all well and good, but I am assuming a little differently.
The fact that he is bothering with this at all makes me think it is possible that the family simply NEEDS the money. Maybe he is just being the financially responsible one and she is not.
Sure it would be great if she could find a new career which she would love. But.. if they NEED the money now and she already has the job experience, knowledge and skill in a specific, decently paying job market then maybe the responsible thing is for her to just suck it up and take one for the team.
As for staying home.. Hopefully if he is considering talking her into going back to work he has already thought about who will take care of the kids. Maybe they have grandparents around. Maybe, based on when she worked previously he expects the cost of day care to be worth it.
BTW, as a working Dad I can tell you that you can have a full time job and still have a ton of influence in raising your child. It's all in what you chose to do once you get home.
Anyway, he could just be being greedy but we don't know that. Maybe they need some more income to take care of their family.
If someone decided to make a trademark today out of what had been your personal domain for years and they showed up, offered to promise not to sue you for a fee of $1 how would you feel about giving it to them?
Don't get me wrong, $1 is nowhere near worth going to court over. But come on... do you want to pay me a dollar not to market something under the name j-beda?
Go to the hardware store. Get some 2x4s, 2x2s and a whole lot of elastic rubber tubing. Make a really big slingshot. Shoot them at an angle where they go over your neighbors houses and land a few streets down. The houses in between will block the recipients view of the source.
That's BS. Only people who use cosmetics and who reside in whatever part of the world Lush sells to would expect that. Furthermore, even they shouldn't be too surprised since Lush is an actual English word AND a common surname. Anybody could have claimed it for valid reasons AND Lush the cosmetics company failed to do so.
Your argument is like going to something named Windows, finding a builder who installs windows in houses and being incredulous that it wasn't Microsoft Windows.
I wish that companies like Google and the world's various court systems would stop pandering to these crying marketing department babies. If they care so much about their precious brands they should be more creative and stop trying to own surnames and real dictionary words. Also, they should have taken the Internet more seriously and claimed their names when they were still available.
Really? As a developer I've only been asking that they close shop. I must admit, I haven't had to deal with any of their products in a few years. Our customers use to use them a lot though and in those days the way they handled html made IE look good. I don't really want the people who designed that making any more products that I may have to one day support.
No, I don't dislike that device. I just think it's incomplete. It matters what you get the degree in. Some things just don't make any sense to go into debt for because they don't translate into marketable labor. The example given was philosophy. Why would I or anyone else hire someone with a degree in philosophy? They might be good for deep conversations but how does it translate into money?
Unless they take it to a PHD level so they can become professors training the next batch of non-marketable graduates. But.. don't even rely on that. There aren't that many philosophy professor positions available. You have to get the PHD, outshine a ton of other applicants, have connections AND still be really lucky to get that job. Otherwise you are STILL flipping burgers AND paying off a student loan.
That was just an example of course. I'm sure there are plenty of degrees like that. Then there are teaching degrees like 'History' for example. Every school needs a history teacher. So.. with the degree you can at least do that. But.. There is still a lot of competition. You will be an occasional substitute teacher for years before you get a full-time position. And you might (or might not) make ok money once you do but you will definitely not get rich. So.. if it's your passion it might make sense. But.. don't go to the biggest named, most expensive school you can find. You will NEVER pay off that debt. just go to a reasonably average state university.
You should hear people speak Spanish from different parts of the world. American vs UK English is NOTHING!
Besides... what gives the English ownership of 'true' English if not history since it started there. What I have heard is that American English is closer to what the English spoke at the time of the revolution than what the English speak now is.
If everyone isn't making an exception for her (and all the others) and she truly doesn't know any German than what is she doing? Importing her food from an English speaking country via the internet? Starving?
If people are managing to get by without knowing the local language then I guess someone has made the decision to enable them. Nobody is forcing the local shopkeepers, landlords, etc to learn English are they?
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Well... for example, try finding a decent CD burner frontend that doesn't pull in either KDE or Gnome.
Or try getting decent support for fast user switching or laptop features like hibernation without getting a big chunk of one of them.
It seems like a lot of development that once would have been done as independant projects that run equally well despite desktop/window manager choice now get implemented as plugins to one of the big two desktops (usually Gnome). It's not that we can't still choose other things but where before it was a completely open choice that Linux users/developers took pride in now it feels more like swimming against the tide.
Forget file browsing. Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend that doesn't pull in a bucketload of either KDE or GNOME dependencies!
I was a long-time KDE user and about a year ago decidedent to experiment with banning both Gnome and KDE from being installed and relying on lightweight window managers. It was only mean to be an experiment, I didn't really expect to go more than a week. Today I am using StumpWM combined with the pager (and only the pager) from Lxde. The only thing I really miss is K3b. Seriously, why does a program that is just a front end to cdrecord, which is more than capable of finding my burner rely on some integral part of KDE. If I install it without KDE it tells me I have no burners! Gnomes equivalent program did the same thing.
I guess I shouldn't complain too loud though. Maybe someday I will take the initiative and write my own burner front-end and not require a bloated desktop to run it. You can write the file manager!
I use Waze (a navigation app) for every trip I make. Google owns it. I don't know what there EULA says but I'm sure they don't just throw away my position reports. And yet.. I use it for every drive, even when I already know the way. Sometimes I think about the fact I'm basically submitting myself to monitoring. I've even considered piecing together some solution with open street map and my own server to avoid this. But... I get real time data. I get warnings about accidents, traffic jams and speed traps up ahead. Countless times it has saved me hours by routing me around accidents on the expressway. On my drive to work there are miles between some of the exits. Simply getting off if the traffic stops moving is not an option.
I grew up in a small midwestern town, technically a village. As a kid I resented the fact that everything I saw on TV or heard on the radio was directed towards places that were as far away and inaccessible to me as the moon. Now I live in a city where this is not such a problem although on the iternet it still feels like some sites I frequent often forget that silicon valley and NYC are not the entire world.
Similarly there is browser tracking. I do share the concern of many Slashdotters that marketing firms know too much about our personal lives. But.. then again.. I consider myself to be a geek and a maker. I love the fact that 'punch the monkey' and 'little blue pill' popups have for me been replaced with ads for Arduinos, components, oscilloscopes and such. I also enjoy obstacle courses and now I see Tough Mudder ads all over the web letting me know when and where to find the next event.
Sometimes I think that I want to start being more private with my data... but.. I kind of feel like I have moved into a different world that I find more interesting and can better relate to. I don't want to give that up.
Well.. the premise of the actual article is that a cure, if possible at all is a really long way out. The author gives some pretty good reasons as to why this is so. Meanwhile, people are suffering today. Better treatments are possible but all of the funding and hype on finding a cure is holding them back.
The article seems pretty anti-cure to me but near the end the author does call for a balance between cure and treatment research rather than completely giving up on the cure.
I think it shows just how unreasonable the anti-gunners can be that they would use weapons export regulations against the sharing of 3d printed gun designs.
If I were in the Pentagon or Homeland Security (theatre) I would ENCOURAGE the export of 3d printed gun designs. Let the enemy blow their own hands and faces off with their plastic guns! Hell, let domestic criminals do the same!
Meanwhile law abiding gun users can just buy them or make them on lathes. Personally I may just try to 3d print a gun some day just to say I did but the only way I am firing it is with a long string tied to the trigger and myself ducked down in a ditch or behind a good strong barrier.
Plastic guns! They make the bogey man sound like a reasonable fear!
BOO!
You just might have a point there!
As underdogs Obama and staff were so fake.
Yup.. they will do well in Silicon Valley!stumpwm area out of bounds
Grab some popcorn and watch the trolls take this thing over
Or
Actively troll myself
Oh, yah, I don't speak Portuguese. Darn. Oh well!
Feliz Natal my trollish Portuguese speaking friends
Getting that OSX GUI exerpience without OSX is actually pretty easy!
First... chop off your dominant hand.
Also, remove all but one finger from your remaining hand.
Put a patch over your dominant eye.
Finally, to complete that Apple feeling get a friend to kick you in the balls every 5 minutes.
Voila! It's just like using the OSX UI!
Ad it should. But so should assuming the opposite! I just noted that a lot of commenters were taking her side when she very well could have been in the wrong.
Congratulations A/C. That's the most successful troll that I have seen since.. well.. since the article itself!
A lot of people are commenting about her deserving a fulfilling career or about children needing a parent around and all sorts of stuff like that. That's all well and good, but I am assuming a little differently.
The fact that he is bothering with this at all makes me think it is possible that the family simply NEEDS the money. Maybe he is just being the financially responsible one and she is not.
Sure it would be great if she could find a new career which she would love. But.. if they NEED the money now and she already has the job experience, knowledge and skill in a specific, decently paying job market then maybe the responsible thing is for her to just suck it up and take one for the team.
As for staying home.. Hopefully if he is considering talking her into going back to work he has already thought about who will take care of the kids. Maybe they have grandparents around. Maybe, based on when she worked previously he expects the cost of day care to be worth it.
BTW, as a working Dad I can tell you that you can have a full time job and still have a ton of influence in raising your child. It's all in what you chose to do once you get home.
Anyway, he could just be being greedy but we don't know that. Maybe they need some more income to take care of their family.
He hasn't verified that she really did that. She could have been a really crappy mother and housekeeper for all we know.
If someone decided to make a trademark today out of what had been your personal domain for years and they showed up, offered to promise not to sue you for a fee of $1 how would you feel about giving it to them?
Don't get me wrong, $1 is nowhere near worth going to court over. But come on... do you want to pay me a dollar not to market something under the name j-beda?
The best part.. you pick them birds up and you have free dinner!
Go to the hardware store. Get some 2x4s, 2x2s and a whole lot of elastic rubber tubing. Make a really big slingshot. Shoot them at an angle where they go over your neighbors houses and land a few streets down. The houses in between will block the recipients view of the source.
That's BS. Only people who use cosmetics and who reside in whatever part of the world Lush sells to would expect that. Furthermore, even they shouldn't be too surprised since Lush is an actual English word AND a common surname. Anybody could have claimed it for valid reasons AND Lush the cosmetics company failed to do so.
Your argument is like going to something named Windows, finding a builder who installs windows in houses and being incredulous that it wasn't Microsoft Windows.
I wish that companies like Google and the world's various court systems would stop pandering to these crying marketing department babies. If they care so much about their precious brands they should be more creative and stop trying to own surnames and real dictionary words. Also, they should have taken the Internet more seriously and claimed their names when they were still available.
Really? As a developer I've only been asking that they close shop. I must admit, I haven't had to deal with any of their products in a few years. Our customers use to use them a lot though and in those days the way they handled html made IE look good. I don't really want the people who designed that making any more products that I may have to one day support.
PHP is the shitiest language out there except for all of the others.
No, I don't dislike that device. I just think it's incomplete. It matters what you get the degree in. Some things just don't make any sense to go into debt for because they don't translate into marketable labor. The example given was philosophy. Why would I or anyone else hire someone with a degree in philosophy? They might be good for deep conversations but how does it translate into money?
Unless they take it to a PHD level so they can become professors training the next batch of non-marketable graduates. But.. don't even rely on that. There aren't that many philosophy professor positions available. You have to get the PHD, outshine a ton of other applicants, have connections AND still be really lucky to get that job. Otherwise you are STILL flipping burgers AND paying off a student loan.
That was just an example of course. I'm sure there are plenty of degrees like that. Then there are teaching degrees like 'History' for example. Every school needs a history teacher. So.. with the degree you can at least do that. But.. There is still a lot of competition. You will be an occasional substitute teacher for years before you get a full-time position. And you might (or might not) make ok money once you do but you will definitely not get rich. So.. if it's your passion it might make sense. But.. don't go to the biggest named, most expensive school you can find. You will NEVER pay off that debt. just go to a reasonably average state university.
Even 2000 years ago Latin wasn't very popular on this side of the Atlantic.
You should hear people speak Spanish from different parts of the world. American vs UK English is NOTHING!
Besides... what gives the English ownership of 'true' English if not history since it started there. What I have heard is that American English is closer to what the English spoke at the time of the revolution than what the English speak now is.
If everyone isn't making an exception for her (and all the others) and she truly doesn't know any German than what is she doing? Importing her food from an English speaking country via the internet? Starving?
If people are managing to get by without knowing the local language then I guess someone has made the decision to enable them. Nobody is forcing the local shopkeepers, landlords, etc to learn English are they?
Oh, yah. They really lose at the game of reproduction.
I like learning languages myself. But.. Hey.. they set it up so that she didn't have to. Why should she not take advantage of that?