They're essentially devices for consumption, not (largely) for production. Shortage of many common applications that exist on PCs.
Also their artificially lowered touch resolution (no pen input??? arrggh) kind of keeps arts apps off of them.

<quote><p>I didn't go see it, I won't download it. I don't care about the movie.</p><p>I find the whole business with it, the hack &amp; blaming North Korea to be a stupid fucking incident and I'm not rewarding Sony for being a cunt.</p></quote>

What you said! Ditto. And associating being a flaming rude asshole with "being american" is just dumb.

This is a piece of software which is very user-oriented instead of service oriented. The short implication of that is, if a computer is dedicated to a single user, it's a rather useful toolkit (most of the time). (it causes havoc if one's trying to do something outside of "normal desktop behaviour")

This software is actively hostile in a service-oriented environment - aggressively so. It's possible if one controls all of the network resource allocation systems (dhcp et al), that one can minimize the harm caused by this software, but the best solution is still to purge it if it exists on a server.

Until it can be installed and run with a default state of "unengaged" when there's no GUI present, it'll remain unsafe. At least they're addressing - finally - the issue that it is essentially hostile if there's no GUI (eg X) present.

"C is not a memory-safe language" - for that comment alone, the entire review becomes untrusted.

One fallacy means that the entire work might just be a continuous set of fallacies.
(C is only memory-unsafe if not used safely - which, given that there's very few barriers to a programmer from shooting themselves in the foot - is always a risk)

I work at a company that tends to be ahead of schedule and so we get time to improve things, and improve things steadily. We're not typically stressed and usually pretty confident about stuff.

This just reminds me even more how much I love my job.

Leif Ericson out of Europe for "first discoveries" (although it was another man who actually told him about it). Since the Baffin Island camps at least lasted until the 17th century ... a MUCH more solid claim than any of the southerners.
for folks coming from the East, the date keeps getting pushed back, however long before the Sphinx existed at this point of knowledge although rather later than when Australia was settled.

It's a complete fiction.

For ad revenue to count towards cost of internet infrastructure, it would be having to go into funding within the infrastructure, not to "outside interests" who are - in their own ways - increasing costs by pulling "eyes".

TAANSTAFL maybe, but I think a lot of these "services" are overvaluing their "product".

I don't know any women for whom threats like this have not become real at some point. (whatever stats say, assume that probably only 1 case in 20 is actually reported and that's a fair rate)

That's one of the key differences. For most men, these threats are just "noise".

Google "missing women" if you want a clue about how real it can get.

This is why I'll continue to argue for women's rights. In a world where a woman can walk down a street at night without risk of assault, so can anyone.

PS: this applies for LBTQ-type folks too.

I think this person is still mad that linux doesn't feed out accurate memory usage ever since COW pages were introduced, let alone multiple efficiency steps since then.

Not going to say that task management over a greater picture's a bad idea, but have to make it more coarse (per server, approximations) rather than fine if one is to still be able to effectively use many of Linux' performance improvements above IBM mainframe approaches. Mind, I've built a couple of systems like that for proprietary infrastructure.

I prefer this one : https://www.facebook.com/MUTmechpup

Sure the videos there aren't as clean, but the K9 in question has a lot that works ...

Music. I love to play music, and I wanted to explore writing it on computer where I could listen to how multiple instruments sounded. This was in Apple II days (I found the Commodore PET a little too boring an the Vic-20 was handy but not as interesting as it could have been had I been able to afford storage)

Playing multi-voice music on an Apple II required learning hex-code "assembler" (much later on I wrote an assembler to make my life easier). Going to IBM PC resulted in better CPU and performance, but harder to make music play.

Also, I really do love communicating with people and for anyone else who saw the internet before WWW, as well as the old Fido days ... well, these were not low-skill entry points.

The few experiments I've tried with STL have been a bit too heavy and slow - at least with my uses which are frequently not single threaded.
My last test ran faster in python.

so I'll stick with C. Good old efficient, manageable and predictable C.

However I hear the STL is great for many people.

I'm pro-choice because I'm anti-murder. Banning abortion murders women.

There was a time when they were open to criticism, to help, and even to patches.
this was before Gnome 3 was released.

since then they've been as hard to interact with as Microsoft - arbitrary nonsensical designs foisted on the public with no way to work with older, functional systems and little or no support for state management, and little or no support beyond some simple cosmetic levels for hardware newer than 1990s era desktops.

while the rising ability to test is probably a good part of this, found out about this study fairly recently:

Research by CHORI Scientists Indicates Causal Link between Vitamin D, Serotonin Synthesis and Autism: Dietary Interventions Will Have Relevance for Prevention and possibly for Treatment of Autism
http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org/main/news/research-by-chori-scientists-indicates-causal-link-230.aspx

(and possibly related : http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416 - Glyphosate&rsquo;s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases -- but only maybe)