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Linus Torvalds looks to Chromebooks and Android for the future of the Linux desktop, while Linux Mint developers aren't happy with each other. Is it the Year of Giving Up on Linux already?
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I've never really been involved in the LINUX world but it does strike me that UNIX itself lost an awful lot of ground through fragmentation and that seems to be happening all over again with LINUX. There's such a fog of different distros out there that the LINUX world looks more and more confusing by the day.
There really needs to be one LINUX to rule them all.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Except there seems to be no way the devs can agree on just what that “one Linux” should be.
TTFN - Kent
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Why am I suddenly thinking about Randall Munroe?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It may be the year when Linux developers will finally realize that the OS is not for developers only...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Bingo. Linux devs are a minscule fraction of a percentage of Linux users. I'm a developer, but I don't give a rat's ass about how the OS is written, as long as I can do what I need to do with my computer, which is to write code for Windows, browse the web, and ignore my email inbox.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Which is why I find Fedora perfect for me, but the kids have hard time to handle it...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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If it weren't for Mint, I don't think I would have GOTTEN my wife to even try Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm trying now Chalet OS for the kids... (The wife have some software that must have IE - yes not even Edge will do)
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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If it's a web site requirement, can't you change the user agent for Chrome and FF to pretend to be IE?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It ain't a site. It is a web "application" using all the twists IE accumulated over years... It is for create tax reports...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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But all parties agree that it's the year of the pig.
They just don't agree on who are the pigs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This new memristor mimics the activity of neural networks, but can be thrown into water and dissolved if data is at risk of falling into the wrong hands Melts in your glass, not in your computer?
I really fail to see the use they describe here, but perhaps as a cheaper method of generating memristors?
Assuming you want memristors?
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This new memristor mimics the activity of neural networks, but can be thrown into water and dissolved if data is at risk of falling into the wrong hands
I can just see the next Hollywood movie -- John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and Keanu Reeves team up in a post-apocalyptic global warming world where all the ocean water has evaporated and they're in a desperate race to mine some water on the moon with the help of Daniel Craig (who's character owns the moon) so they can destroy the memristors that an evil Patrick Stewart and Arnold Schwarzenegger are trying to use to dominate Mars. Sandra Bullock and Sigourney Weaver save the day by contacting an alien race, warping gravity, injecting a combat AI into the "net", and crashing spaceships that look oddly like cruise ships into Mars.
Latest Article - Azure Function - Compute Pi Stress Test
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It was a dark and stormy night...
And WTF is wrong with my computer?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Companies could face fines if they fail to take down content quickly. Can we call it "Brinternet"?
"Internexit?"
"The Great Wall of May?"
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I wouldn't worry, they'll set a tiny budget for it, whilst at the same time making working in IT in the public sector completely unattatractive then wonder why it's taken 10 years too long and run out of money, and then try and find a way to make the online behemoths fund it.
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Strange that nobody sees to whom such regulations are a problem.
Facebook, Twitter & Co? Nope. They are big enough to afford some call centers somewhere round the world, having someone working at any time, so they can cope with removing said content within a few hours (even minutes).
But any provider of a small forum? No, they'll fail!
And that's it: such regulations deter small providers, and enhance oligopolies / monopolies. Great achievement!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Which is why companies like Twitter and Facebook want this kind of regulation - it's a way of eliminating the competition.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The tyranny is in the ambiguity. It's a case of rule by fear rather than rule by specification. Simply make vague threats and rely on people being too scared to do anything.
The sad truth is that the UK is so tied up in the great financial suicide "debate" that its failing government is getting away with murder on all sorts of other issues.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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"Ambiguity" is exactly the problem. And a max of 4% of revenues as a fine? Good luck with that....
But you are right, they will go after the smaller sites, set examples. What a joke. How do these people take themselves seriously?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It's defining "harmful" that's problematic.
I'm sure Adolf, Joe, ZeDong, and Pot could have helped with that, if they were still alive.
Mind you, the guys who are ruling May's ears are pretty much the same, so what could possibly go wrong?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yahoo is back in the courtroom with a revised settlement proposal meant to make amends for its massive data breaches. After lawyers' fees, this could mean affected people might be able to afford a new email address
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In February 1971, physicists at the National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, began testing the biggest machine in the world: a ring-shaped, 200-billion-electron-volt (BeV) proton synchrotron particle accelerator. To discover the ferrion?
Or should I have gone with 'strange quark'?
To get to the other side?
Nah, you're right. I got nuttin.
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