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Comment Re:The lesson here (Score 1) 266

You have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. But you don't have better things to do with your day than telling others that you have better things to do with your day than sit there like an angry little person and dwell on it. You also don't have better things to do with your day than falsely proclaim that Lenovo care about people like you because they're taking steps to fix the situation rather than ignoring it. I note that your so proclaiming also doesn't achieve anything.

Comment Re: One strike (Score 1) 248

Then it's not "build your own" anymore.

Even if it were, driving to rent your 3-D printer could easily take longer than it takes to cook your rice, and designing the 3-D model over the bought small motherboard keeping in mind extensibility, cooling, access ports is another task that surpasses rice cooking.

Comment Re:Misses the point (Score 1) 248

If Linux wont he marketshare wars they would have fake certificates, app stores, in Ubuntu too

Yes, but fixing it will be simpler. Most Linux distribution installations are easier than windows installations. And getting the installer image is easier as it is most prominent in the distribution website rather than obscure as in the case of Microsoft's windows downloads.

MS needs to change the EULA to prevent this since Windows 10 will be free for the consumer version of it.

What has the end user got to with it? Lenovo is the middle-man, so MS need to change the MMLA (middle man license agreement).

Comment git encourages merges which are not easy here (Score 1) 343

2 factors make git a bad choice here :

1. Git encourages merges. Even to someone used to source code version control, the branching and merging in git is a bit too easy for comfort. And it is by design - anyone should be able to completely clone a repository easily, keep rebasing while working, test all changes locally and then merge.

2. Even many so called "MS word experts" are not really experts in branching, diffing, merging files. Excel is even worse. While I don't doubt there are tools Microsoft , and probably even others, provide for making these activities simple. But I haven't come across any experts that are really confident doing it hundreds of times a day.

This coupled with MS Word's insistence on "saving" even cursor position changes makes life even more difficult. I am sure there are solutions to this which probably the experts know - but intermediate proficiency MS Word users typically suffer from this.

Comment Re: Pointless (Score 1) 755

From brief overview the arguments it does everything is fud

fud, as well as strawman. GP didn't say it does everything, GP said it takes over all of system management.

SystemD is no different than the other event driven alternatives

4583 package depend on it. Much much fewer depended on other "event driven alternatives". So you are wrong. http://lkcl.net/reports/removi...

That is my answer to the grandparents argument there was no need for change

Another strawman. They didn't say there was no need for change. They said "for many if not most an alternative to init was neither needed nor desired".

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 677

Same thing happens when you use functions. Is this a reason to not use functions?

E.g.

activity(){
    if(part1required){
        part1;
    }
}

Here, part1 is under if which is under activity(), so part1 is indented two levels lower than activity(). Later part1 becomes complicated, so we move it out in a function - funcpart1().

activity(){
    if(part1required){
        funcpart1();
    }
}
 
funcpart1(){
    part1;
}

By using functions, part1 has come at just one level under activity(), even though logically it is 2 levels under activity().

By using the functions, flow has changed, and in this new flow part1 is just one level under activity. Similarly, by using goto, flow changes and there is less indentation required in the new flow.

Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 411

Why not simply

public Foo foo;

No getter or setter needed, by default it can't be null

But "public Foo foo;" IS null. Where the definition of null is that the variable's value isn't anything definite. It either points to a random, uninitialized memory area. Or it automatically calls the null constructor of the class Foo - which is very expensive in java. Or it is just null, but you call it with some other name that is not null.

By default not allowing "null" such defined is idiotic. It is equivalent to organizing your room by stuffing everything disorganized under a bed. Instead of null, you get uninitialized random variable or very high garbage collection losses.

Comment Spam is censorship (Score 1) 400

Because no one can read everything - so a preponderance of unwelcome body part augmentation advice can limit ability of people to have intended conversation. Hence any attempt to reduce spam is counter-censorship.

Moderation is an attempt to reduce spam, and therefore, counter-censorship.

Comment Re:There is no legitimate reason to show it. (Score 1) 645

Not sure how to break it to you but Germany and Japan are (and were) not human beings or living beings. They didn't have eyes to melt out of their sockets with effects of the bombs, nor guts that stopped functioning.

Of the living beings that were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is no proof that all of them knew and/or approved of war "crimes" committed by "their" armed forces abroad. Even most human beings. So no, tit for tat argument of yours is shit, false, immoral and repulsive.

I can accept the collateral victims argument, I can maybe accept the reduction of overall casualties argument, but not this. You're a monster.

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