Comment Re: Existing tech in tank engines? (Score 1) 158
The public don't want to hear scientific facts.
There is a reason why America has a right to bullshit people - its what the people want!
The public don't want to hear scientific facts.
There is a reason why America has a right to bullshit people - its what the people want!
People who think the words feedforward and feedback can be interchanged without (possibly complete) loss of meaning should be regarded as illiterates.
These people need to learn to write code before they implement any new features.
There are other options:
OpenBSD is a perfectly viable alternative, and Devuan is not bad if you do want Linux.
MS have long understood they do not need to address this, as their users are easily addicted to the "slap in the face with a wet fish" experience, and have no wish to have a pleasant computing experience, or indeed any other kind of pleasant experience.
If they did want enjoyable experiences or a productive computing environment, they would have "gone native" years ago.
OTOH
Without SystemD, corporates requiring all systems to be maintained by someone with their head in the clouds (probably simulated by AI) will not support it, so there will be no money (eg to handle legal issues^w^w enforcement).
There is also the problem of Gnome vs Mint vs Mate vs KDE vs XFCE vs VWFM95 etc.
If you want standards, use OpenBSD - Unix as it was in 1978, but with Internet support and the bugs fixed - but limited support for hardware more recent than 2008.
(Lets face it, 2008 is not long ago for those of us who WERE using Unix in 1978
If you want to go full commie, you should use Slackware 0.98 on a 486 and drive a Trabant.
But what percentage of the world's population don't?
Me and my partner spend more time watching "foreign" films than native ones. And American is foreign to us.
I, personally, find it impossible to understand most American film dialogue to the extent that I rarely try. OTOH if you are going to watch using subtitles, Spanish, Portuguese or even Korean content can be easier to understand and more interesting.
Why not live in the real world? When did YOU last watch any Igbo films?
Perhaps there should be a poll
There is no evidence that the present government would know competence if it hit them on the head with a blunt object, or that any future government, anywhere, would perform the task significantly better.
The underlying problem is that: All the present evidence is that competence and government are mutually incompatible concepts.
Anyone stupid enough to think that a "government agent" can have access to anything without at least one "evil agent" having more and greater access, sooner, should be in protective custardy with immediate effect.
I have no wish to view child porn, but I really don't want the Taliban to have access to my banking app. Let the politicians lead by example, and give the Russian Mafia access to their own banking details.
In fact, why not require all the politicians intending to vote for this policy lead by example and paste all their private encryption keys on their publicity material for 12 months first.
This phenomenon is not limited to the USA.
means you can take it to places where cameras are not permitted - eg factory production lines.
This.
The 10p light weight one-time use plastic bags which were then used for rubbish disposal, going neatly into the "recycling" process have been replaced by £1 "bags for life" with about 100 times more plastic in them, hang around for a while being used two or three times, and then split along the seams, then hang around a bit longer waiting to be returned for a free replacement before they go in the trash because no one is going to take a torn bag back and argue with the shop stuff that they are entitled to a replacement.
The net result is at least 4 times more oil is consumed to make four times more plastic to go in the rubbish cycle.
The main beneficiaries are the supermarkets who get you to pay for expensive plastic bags instead of giving you free ones, and the green lobby who get to gloat over their "success".
For the rest of us, it is a daily proof that politicians cannot be trusted to deliver a working policy on anything, anywhere, at any time.
Why are my GBP turning into Australian pounds?
Nobody ever disables turbo mode except to cheat at games.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.