While I agree with you, I think you're forgetting how little competition there is as far as desktop OSes go. Microsoft is practically trying to run Windows 10 into the ground (disable pro features with the anniversary update, then force everyone to upgrade to Enterprise, for example), while Apple will never officially allow OS X on anything other than their products even if hell freezes over. This leaves Linux as a serious competitor with significant advantages in its community driven design, that allow a group to fork and existing project and make a modern desktop OS suitable for the average user. The problem is mostly that no one has bothered to do that, or done so successfully (Chrome OS was a great try, and I think it's here to stay, but it's still a little too locked down).
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I have a t450s and have been running Fedora since last version, never had any problems that weren't related to what I changed on the OS. I'd consider the user experience overall to be more smooth than Windows, though not quite perfect. You may have an issue with nonfree binaries/codecs not working out of the box, but I've resolved all of those with rpmfind.net[0], and haven't had to worry about third party repos. Obviously that'd be a problem for some users.
I think Korona[1] is a spin of Fedora that has this stuff included by default, so if you want Linux that works out of the box, Korona + any Thinkpad is probably your best bet.
[0] http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html [1] https://kororaproject.org/
You're greatly over simplifying early American politics. Neither the French nor English were a consistent "common enemy". Rather there was extensive debate as to which would be/was a better ally or worse foe, and the US got into conflict with (and conducted mutually beneficial diplomacy with) both on several different occasions in the years after its founding.
(Below are several events in which the early US was aligned with either side, note this changed frequently)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Alliance_(1778)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Neutrality
Maybe easy open source implementations of GPUs/video hardware, for the libre everything types.
The people who were hit the hardest are still growing up, and many of them yet to reach voting age. I think change will come, but that will be after the death of the old guard (from age), and when this generation becomes the largest voting block.
Attacking Turkey would (arguably could) invoke NATO, and start a war which Russia would certainly lose. That's a sign of sanity, not wisdom.
Spotify pays artists as much as piracy does, in many cases, while be socially acceptable and normalized.
For example, I got a book at Barnes and Noble the other day, and when I responded to the cashier's pitch for a Barnes and Noble card with something like "No thanks, I get most of my books through torrents", they looked at me like I was trying to talk about the taste of baby meat. Your average content consumer pays for media, and there is no definitive evidence pirates would pay for music and media if free downloads were not available. Spotify, on the other hand, is targeted at those people who would normally buy music, and offering a cheaper alternative that also pays the artist substantially less (almost nothing, in some cases).
While I agree tech is hurting music, the recording industry has been ripping off artists since records were popular. The entirety of Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, for example, is about artists not making any money off their music[1], and it was released shortly after the ARPANET was created. The biggest change with digital music piracy is that record companies are also earning less.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Versus_Powerman_and_the_M...
Also, results of this study do not indicate that drivers with detectable THC in their blood at the time of the crash we re necessarily impaired by THC or that they were at-fault for the crash; the data availabl e cannot be used to assess whether a given driver was actually impaired, and examination of fault in individual crashes was beyond the scope of this study
If there was a general increase in accidents, I think you would have a point, but all this conclusively demonstrates is that there has been an increase of marijuana usage among the population of Washington. The thing about how these drug tests work, is that they do not test impairment or if someone was high at the time, but if they were high within the past few hours to days. I think you're misunderstanding, that even if there is THC in someone's bloodstream, it does not mean they are high. It is possible that none of the drivers in the study were high at the time of their crashes, and all of them smoked the day before. It is also possible that every single one was high during the collision. Due to the nature of the testing, the linked study is not very conclusive on at least what you're trying to prove from it.
I think authoritarian left wing communist "transition states", are what most people mean by communism now. The word has evolved and changed meaning. Also, I believe that because the two are synonymous, and there never was any "true communism" implemented according to many, expressing communism as the above isn't too factually inaccurate. If someone calls their self something, and is labeled that thing, they'll eventually be that thing. In this case, "communist" governments.
The real exciting part about this (to me) is the potential for a full fledged linux altoids tin computer. Suddenly the something like the Pyra/Open Pandora is a lot more realistic. Or even a (usable) hobbyist diy phone.
What do you mean by ARM being more interesting than MIPS?
But Google also more or less owns the market now. Back then it was anyone's game (and internet usage in tdeveloped countries was growing rapidly, making the market a bit more volatile).
I think your problem is avoiding AP classes. They claim to be college prep, but from my experience (no citation, sorry) they're more the level that the entire education system should be working on. I do not remember learning a single thing from my honors/traditional classes (other than ohm's law in Electronic Tech, which is no longer available), however I can confidently say I did learn and still remember what I've learned in my AP and IB classes.
Unfortunately that is due more to excessive memorization and general work required than anything else, but I still find it better than the alternative, which is learn nothing at all.
"The Soup Nazi", for example,
What about the Pi 3?
This is fascinating, malware is being distributed in broad daylight by companies registered and operating in developed countries. Attacks from single users in, or pretending to be in, Eastern Europe or some other area with weaker unauthorized access laws seem to be getting less popular, as hackers are realizing technology and methods of unauthorized access are developing a lot faster than laws can keep up with them.
Honestly I'm surprised this doesn't happen more. While yes, it was a very kind gesture by Ulukaya to give his employees partial ownership, it also makes each of them much more involved in the long term success of the company. Putting a company on the stock market is selling it to people who are only interested in earnings for a few quarters at most, while employees will have interest in not only the growth of the company, but the sustainability of the operation.
At least that's my impression of employee owned businesses, it seems like a smart economic move.
Another commentor expressed it, but JuiceSSH is proprietary. In most cases open source is more of a preference for me than a necessity, but I may need to sudo or access root over SSH, and there's no way to review closed source code. JuiceSSH (IMHO) has too much control over my computer for me to use it based on the assumption that I fully can trust the developer.
Even though I prefer email to all other protocols, that would be a great way to kill my inbox. It seems a but counter intuitive, but having so many chat/communication standards acts as a way to organize all my messaging activity. Email is formal, SMS is slightly less formal but more direct, Whatsapp is completely informal but more convenient for casual conversations than SMS, and though I don't use Facebook Messenger I'm sure it has a spot somewhere in there.
Human culture, I guess if you step back far enough. I say culture because I don't think makeup is tied to genetics.
That women wear it daily while it doesn't even cross most guy's minds. Also that women wear it, and are expected to wear it, to look better while, again, the concept rarely crosses most men's minds.
Well, it exists everywhere, but so does sexism.
I was inferring global human culture, we didn't really develop in vacuums. And pardon my wording, I meant species, but I felt that'd imply that women were biologically disposed to wear makeup, which obviously I don't believe is true(maybe social factors caused by biology, but none still relevant in the 21st century).
More importantly, you're right though, I have zero evidence backing this up, or going against it. I just don't feel like it's very right.
Maybe Minecraft will change the industry before any of us can cook up a good solution to the gender gap.
The fact that makeup exists speaks a lot about our culture and how it views women.
Jimmy Carter was also an engineer, and as much as people hated him at the time, he was a very honest and responsible leader in hindsight.
I don't think this situation is about it, but I've heard of that being done with a loophole/abuse of the H1B system. Tech jobs will be posted for a fraction of what they would normally pay, not receive any applications, and then companies will apply for H1B visas to import low cost tech workers willing to take on long hours at low pay for the chance to get an American citizenship.
Is sexism a side effect of engineers being assholes or is engineers being assholes a problem because sexism exists so much in the first place? It's very easy to blame a company or a subculture as being sexist, but no one thinks about how the entirety of Western society is still damn sexist. The fact that makeup exists, for example. Women are universally expected to be subordinate and seen before heard. Women keep getting pushed around because that's what our social structure expects them to do. Engineers not being assholes isn't going to solve the problem. Women being assholes, and everyone getting used to that, just might.
There's no one you can really blame it on, but I think her thinking that is a result of the fact that we live in a very sexist society. Women are expected to grow up as essential gears in that machine, keeping each other in check and never fumble, god forbid someone would see that. I think it's present everywhere, but we're seeing it blatantly with women in technology because it's such a maverick industry, and that very tenacity which makes it successful is a trait that is so strongly frowned upon for women in our society to have.
Beats me on how to fix that. You can't just tell someone that no one cares, or that their worst critic is themself, when their reality is structured around believing elsewise.