Professionals with jobs to do value stability and backward compatibility.
It would appear that these professionals with jobs had better learn to deal with moving targets. Stability and compatibility no longer exist in the old fashioned way.
Has anyone ever seen a feminist petition for more women to do construction jobs, cleaning jobs, heavy industrial trades etc?
Yes, actually.
Meanwhile, full Windows 7 and 8 runs smoothly on those same underpowered systems with all animations and compositing enabled, all the way down to Atom N270 systems.
Everyone can try this themselves if they do not believe it.
Well, so do Gnome3 and Unity, so there's that.
So everything is still broken, and it needs at least till 40 until its reliably usable.
Fortunately, that will only take a couple of days.
Now we find out that jobs are being cut in [...] Fargo.
Aw, geez.
The bios is software, and you aren't going to install an OS without a bios.
The microcode is also software and you aren't going to run a computer without that either.
You get the idea?
I think it would actually be rather cool to have access to third party BIOSses, microcode, and so on. Folks who think this is too complex an/or time consuming can always go for the stock options.
So anonymity is great if you are a battered wife, rape victim, or acid attack victim. But if it is just a case of your opinion not being popular then you no longer deserve it?
False equivalence noted. The fact that this got +5 insightful is truly sad.
Oh fuck off you Neanderthal.
Bah. He's just another fucktard MRA lowlife, using the standard jargon. In this case: "White Knight".
My Nikon FM, and my Mamiya C33 on a Gitzo tripod strong enough to build a house on.
Also, vinyl records. Not because they sound better but because I like to hold something that has music on it. The CD is dying and if I buy digital, might as well buy the flac.
Actually, real pros use cat > filename then type Ctrl-d when done.
Seriously.
I'm no unix pro in any way shape or form, but I do make quick notes using
cat << EOF >> whatever.txt
Discovering that old trick has saved me lots of time.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
