The way I read it, Systemd is mainly a hail mary from the gnome cabal to try to jumpstart a stalled heart.
You mean, they think they're going to ride systemd's dick back into our hearts? That would truly be a first-class delusion.
Gandalf is explicitly using magic. He needs no machine. He is tapping into some force that needs no physical model to work.
Sure, from his point of view. But what's happening behind the scenes?
Scotty on Star Trek is not casting spells when he beams someone up, he's using a machine. That's very different from Gandalf casting a spell.
The only potential fundamental difference between a plot object like a crystal ball and a plot object like a transporter is whether there's a theoretical physical explanation for their function. If there is, then it's science fiction. If not, it's just fiction, and you may as well call it fantasy. It might not be witches-and-wizards fantasy, but it sure-as-hell ain't science fiction. You don't have to actually spell out the explanation, or even allude to it, but you should have one which works consistently with the idea of physics throughout your story if you want to be all sciency and stuff.
Whatever the topic of the conference, it is it already 90% related to his current job, then it isn't going to be anything like the "buggy whip/automobile" leap that you made.
Wait, this is what this is all about? You don't understand hyperbole? Do you even English, bro?
After something like 20 years I finally found a system that won't run Debian unstable right now. My Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 magnesium tablet + iKey Jumpseat magnesium keyboard. Systemd and GDM break. Bought (for less than full price) because I am a frequent traveler and speaker and really do need something you can drop from 6 feet and pour coffee over have it keep working.
But because of this bug I have ubuntu at the moment, and am not having fun and am eager to return to Debian.
There's a lot of things at play.
Companies claim to care about your degree, but they don't. They have problems and they want it solved now. So practical skills counts more than that degree. If you can code, demonstrate it via code/github, you will get hired. You can learn and become great, but companies don't want to train/spend money on people. You have PhD, so via degree alone, you should be paid well enough, companies don't want to pay well enough, you are what they will call over qualified. Don't shoot for any job, narrow down, and do a quick catch up to whatever field you want to work in. If you want to do web dev for instance, focus on one language, php or python or ruby, learn a framework, build something. If you want to write C, learn how to do embedded programming for instance, if you want to do mobile, pick iOS or Android. Another way to go will be through a contracting/consulting company, they can charge more for you because of your PhD. They might not pay well, but at least you can get "real world" experience.
when your people are dying and people are coming in, risking their own lives to try and help you, and your response is to attack and kill them, trying to use the injustices of the past to justify the mass deaths of the present won't win you any friends
This isn't about justifying deaths or winning friends. This is about if you want to try to help people, you have to craft your message in a way that they are ready to receive.
Yes, we do know what kind of conference this is because the OP told us.
What. No, no they have not. They said it was specific to a technology, that's it. You then concluded that it was more along the line of "C# or Java: Haskell to the Rescue!". but it could easily be technology-related, for example automation controls. There's lots of reasons why someone in the public sector might have something to gain by visiting a conference being held in Vegas. It's just a common place to hold them for a broad variety of reasons. You don't know what the subject matter is, but you're sure you do. Why? The provided evidence is insufficient to jump to the conclusion you're now standing upon.
My site is not particularly safe. I'm using specious hosting and the most I do is occasionally log in and run updates.
However, my site is safer than my site plus some other sites, too.
He pretty much HAS to start responding to market demand, vs. dictating what he thinks people SHOULD want.
If that were the case then he should start offering thicker phones with a bigger battery. The fact that companies like Mophie actually have a business model strongly indicates there is a demand out there for phones with enough batter to last more than half a day.
Jobs was a big believer in the concept that people don't really know what they need or want.
And he is largely correct. If I were to go around my office and ask people what they would like that would make their job better, I will largely get blank stares or some extremely modest improvement to something they were already doing like a more comfy chair. People are REALLY REALLY bad in general about being technology visionaries. Henry Ford said it best when he said "If I asked customers what they wanted they would answer a faster horse".
Where this viewpoint is most often wrong is when you are talking about incrementally improving an existing product they are already familiar with. People often have well formed and informed opinions in that case. They can tell you that they like a bigger or smaller screen on a device they already know and use. They have NO idea if they will like something totally new (or seemingly new) like ApplePay.
For the price of an iPhone, you could have two decent Android phones and a couple of cheap tablets.
I'll bite. First question is which iPhone are we talking about here? 5, 5S, 6 or 6plus? With what memory capacity? Second, go ahead and prove it. Find me two "decent" (meaning similar specs to the iPhone) Android phones and two "cheap" tablets at unsubsidized prices that cost the same as an iPhone. Only restriction is that it has to be something that is actually useful because I cannot fathom any reason to buy something that will gather dust.
I've never been convinced it's well defined.
It's not. It's basically an ill defined pejorative for "people who do things I don't like" with a dash of a superiority complex thrown in. They think the other person has a superiority complex so they beat them to the punch with their own. Basically if you call someone a hipster you are probably covering up your own insecurity and couldn't think of a more creative insult.
Would you be happy that people associate linux with terrorism ?
Well, I started with Linux by downloading Debian 0.93 by modem onto floppies (because the copyright situation for 386BSD was unclear at the time). I think this was the first official Debian release with dpkg and it was awesome!
So I remember when Linux started to get media attention very well. What people associated Linux with was Communism. My reaction at the time was that people who did that were hysterical idiots, and history has proved me right.
As for Islam, it's not going away. It can't be "defeated", any more than Christianity or atheism can be "defeated". These things will live on no matter what kind or unkind things people say about them. Those who insist on making Islam into the boogeyman are hysterics condemning themselves to permanent worry about what's hiding under their bed.
Well, before we candebate a question like "Is ISIL Muslim?" you have to specify what you mean by the question.
The important thing is not to ask a question like that in one context and then use the answer in a different context. For example if you ask someone in a white supremacist "Aryan Nations" church "who is a true Christian?" you can't automatically attribute those same ideas to Quakers. Likewise you can't attribute the answer of a Salafist group like ISIL to the question "Who is a true Muslim?" to your sober, industrious, and peaceful Hanafi Muslim neighbors. Both groups see the other as apostates.
A historian or anthropologist would certainly consider ISIL an "Islamic movement", just as they'd consider the KKK a "Christian movement". And while your local ultra-liberal Sufi imam or Episcopalian minister would disagree strongly, nobody is actually wrong here. They're just using the words in different senses.
People get upset when you call them incompetent for sourcing stuff out to foreign CDNs, but stuff like this happens all the time. It's not safe to pull stuff in from other sites for reasons which are obvious to anyone competent.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
