One of the big reasons that I like Linux is the fact that it is really just a conventional server OS with a GUI bolted on top. That is not a bad thing. That is a very GOOD thing. That means that there is a solid foundation on top of all of the shiny shiny.

Linux is not Windows.

Linux is not MacOS.

There is no point in mutilating Linux to pander to people that will never appreciate Linux on it's own terms.

That's rather the whole point.

I read the whole thing and I am still not convinced that this nonsense is of any value. Even as a desktop user, I don't see the point in systemd or upstart. The kids that need to look like they are busy with something need to leave well enough alone and actually fix something that needs fixing.

These idiots are trying to sell a false dichotomy and just assuming that their nonsense is necessary somewhere. They have yet to establish that is actually the case.

They have yet to make the case that any of this nonsense is even remotely necessary.

Your boarding pass is not a license to be a jackass despite the fact that you clearly view this to be the case.

People like you are why we need cops and governments and laws. You will use a tense sitaution as an excuse to try and screw over the rest of us.

While it is true that there are any number of ways that the implementation of this could go horribly wrong in West Africa, the hard fact remains that they really don't have any other options. There's no "blue pill fairy" that's going to swoop down and save them. This isn't some episode of TNG where they can just technobabble their way out of the problem.

This may be a crazy hair brained idea but it seems to be the best thing they have going.

We ran out of the magical ebola drug after just 2 patients. Waiting on Big Pharma is probably not a good idea.

The big problem with this is that it's spoon feeding people a narrative that they should be able to come up with by themselves. Students should be able to make these connections on their own. For that they need all of the relevant source material. Something like this is no substitute for the courses it seems to displace.

As something extra, it's a nice idea for those with added interest. However, public schools have enough of a problem just handling the basics. Expecting them to take on something extra just shows how woefully out of touch this billionaire is.

Besides, it's not even that radical. Public broadcasting has presented shows like this for decades.

Again, extra stuff that those with an interest can seek out on their own.

Common core in general (like the rich idiot behind it) seems to forget that we can't all be millionaires and rock stars. Some of us have to pump gas or pump stomachs. Public education should acknowledge that rather than try to deny it.

No. That just shows how sad and pathetic you are an the rest of you peasants that elevate jackasses like this. It's idiots like you that allow the redeption of the reputation of Robber Barons.

Humpbacks are like the Ocean's PR department. They happily make a huge spectacle of themselves. They do this without any human intervention. No cages or trainers are required.

They just do it all by themselves...

>> There's nothing easy about getting various H/W setup on Linux even with the best distro.
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> What era do you live in? I've been using Ubuntu since inception and, since the second or third release, it's been better with hardware than Windows.

I defected to Ubuntu 8 years ago because I saw it "just work" on some random laptop. This was supposed to be the era of Linux not working on laptops. It worked like a charm including wireless and the annoying sleep modes that I immediately disabled.

> Personally speaking, I prefer the BluRay copy of "Breaking Bad" then a not quite always HD stream... then again I have a record collection, so what does that say about me

Even a DVD copy of Breaking Bad will probably be better than streaming it. Streaming quality can go to crap pretty quickly. Plus you have to "download" a stream any time you watch one. This is wasteful, consumes your data cap, and again exposes you to the problem of quality degredation.

> You can't easily exchange documents with GNU/Linux and expect it to work.

Sure you can. Or at least you can as much as you can expect this to work with random versions of office itself. This problem is so pervasive that you won't even get blamed for running a deviant word processor if there are problems.

msoffice based document interchange is so problematic that some people/industries just gave up and defected to PDF.

Like anything else, you have to focus on actual real world requirements and use cases and not the most obscure corner case that you can concoct. The same goes for "groupware". I am not convinced that this is a big problem.

Again... what people actually use versus someone's chosen bullet points.

The fact that it isn't a pure Troll doesn't mean it isn't trollling. We can neither accept these at face value nor dismiss them out of hand. It's something that actually requires a little thought and analysis.

Certainly the "moron on the street" standard should not apply here.

It gets even better. Marketing that panders to girls is no less misogynistic. It's actually even WORSE. Marketing for women is all about making women feel like sh*t, especially about their bodies. The stuff is more caustic then genuine porn.

This is just more of the "nerds bad" narrative that the media has been trying to feed us lately. In truth, "gamer culture" is no worse than anything else including the women's magazines that claims to be feminist.

Anything going on in video games is the tail end of the problem.

Yes. This is clearly driven by money. You pander to your audience. If it drives someone else bonkers, you don't really give a sh*t. All of the recent statements in the media is just meaningless lip service directed at a particularly noisy faction of nitwits.

They're the yin to the trollish yang that they are whining about.

Nothing will really come of this because American corporations are first and foremost about the bottom line. They aren't going to turn down the money. It doesn't matter if they genuinely despise the customer or not.

So this little tempest is nothing more than professional trolling and confirmation that real journalism is dead.

If you are big enough to have a branch office in Timbuktu then you should be big enough for there to be someone in the home office that speaks whatever they speak there.

Of course this runs counter to the current corporate culture fad of cost cutting and defining success based on quarterly profits and stock results.

> In fairness, anyone who actually learns to program on their own can muddle through with a couple of printf's and a stopwatch

That approach is so crude and unsophisticated that just about anyone would know well enough not to admit to actually doing something that primitive.

> Honestly, even if I'm doing it a on a million items, O(N^2) vs O(N) isn't a big deal - hardware is cheaper than my time.

No. Not really. Plus that difference you are glossing over there can mean the difference between the problem being solvable with currently available hardware (or not). There's only so much hardware you can throw at a problem before you exhaust that approach.

Actually. The more I look at your statement, the more the mind simply BOGGLES.

boggles...