Odd, every time I say I do not want those services, I am soundly reminded, like a child mind you, that none of those things really affect performance and that I whining about nothing at all. Apparently, you and I are just imagining things.

It is a shame that I do not currently have mod points. I think you are correct: Being able to return the product is HUGE. You can not do that with physical copies.

Eternal September... it is eternal.

Hello Linus,

I am curious on what your uncensored thoughts are on SystemD. If you can not, or choose not to give your uncensored view, would you at least share why you will not give us your uncensored view?

Thank you.
Dave

Sure, finding extraterrestrial life would be a HUGE discovery; however, the total amount of energy on Titan is negligible and the variety of energy gradients do not lend themselves well to anything but the simplest forms of life. These would be extremely difficult to detect and even more difficult to identify as actual life.

Europa, with its water and tidal heating from Jupiter is a much more likely candidate for finding extraterrestrial life. The whole ice shell thing is a real issue so I would not pin all of my hopes on Europa either.

Honestly, the best chance for finding evidence of extraterrestrial life is on Mars. Yes, it will be long dead, but I would be surprised if we did not eventually find some sort of fossil evidence. If not Mars, then it will be extra-solar.

Epic fail. If I have to do that to even start using it, it is wrong.

Windows has become ever more convoluted over the years. 8.1 does not offer improvements. It uses more disk space, more RAM, and more CPU than ever before. In Windows 7, there are several dozen process running at any given time that I have no need of and can not turn off without crashing the operating system. Those processes more than doubled from Windows 7 to Windows 8.

You can argue all you want that they provide awesome services that make my life so much easier... but it is not true. I do not need port 445 sitting there listening. I do not need their fancy DNS services. I do not need half of the processes opening up under svchost.exe and hiding themselves. I do not need Active Directory subsystems functioning at home. I do not need my operating system to try and discover shit on the network. I do not need my operating system trying to force an election to see who wins (pun not intended) the ability to be authoritative about Microsoft protocols on my network. I do not need my operating system trying to enforce DRM. I do not need my operating system to continually multiply the number of hidden places program can start from.

The product is shit. 8.1 is worse shit than 7, and by definition, 10 will be worse shit than 8.

Install a fucking cover over the shit and call it good to go? Stop smoking that stuff my friend. Just stop. Lipstick on a pig does not fool me.

Oddly enough, I made a comment a week or so ago that resonates with this. Linus is not the only person with access to the source code for Linux... so why isn't it sayonara Linus? Only because it is free (Free?)?

No. It would be sayonara Microsoft because Microsoft does not build a good product. They are not focused on the product at all. They are focused on how they use that product as leverage. So Microsoft would be history if the opened their source because another company would make a BETTER Windows... because they would be able to focus on actually making a good product.

It is rather like the American automakers and why they are constantly on the edge of bankruptcy. They are not in the business of making cars. No, they are in the business of making money; making cars is merely the vehicle (pun somewhat intended) for making money. When you lose sight of the product, in time, you always end up failing. Concentrate on the product first. Afterwards, you can play whatever shitty games you want to try and wrest more money from people.

I am unsure why culture has anything to do with it. At most, culture may cause the hiding of non-procreational sexual activities. It will not prevent it. Back-alley abortions have been around forever.

People have sex. It is a constant desire for most people. Culture has no effect on this desire. At most, culture will curtail the obvious manifestations of it.

Birth control and legal abortions are the only sane and rational answer to out of control population growth.

Eh? We have the technology to fire a missile from a ship floating in the ocean and hit a relatively small satellite orbiting the planet. I do not think it would be THAT much different to fire a missile from land to somewhere just past orbit and hit a relatively large object.

Are they the exact same problem with the exact same missiles, targets, and locations? No. Regardless, the problem of sending stuff accurately past planetary orbit is a solved one. The only question is how quickly can they do it within the new set of requirements.

It is not like that at all.

Or, you wandered the forest as a hunter and occasionally rob from the rich who might wander nearby. Of course, to assuage your feelings of guilt from robbing people, you might be tempted to redistribute some of your ill-gotten gains to the poor people in villages surrounding said forest. ;)

Hm. Not really.

Republicans and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party.
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Democrats and Democrats belong to the same party: The authoritarian and corrupt Pwned by Corporations party.

It just doesn't sound the same if you replace Republican with Democrat... but, I know what you were trying to imply. :)

Actually, C is indeed awesome for cross-platform compilability; however, try using libraries cross-platform. Nastiness.

For example, the crypt() function. Call it under Linux and call it under OpenBSD and see how that works out for you. Yes, it is possible. I am not even sure that is available in Windows.

Pure, ANSI standard C will compile under any platform. It is the details (libs) that kill you.

Ummm... you already know the answer to this since you work in Silly Valley currently: They will bring in more H1Bs since there will not be enough "qualified" workers locally. Heheh.

Au contraire mon frere. You seem to be under the delusion that reality actually matters. What Ford sees is that you are not buying a new car so each second hand sale is a direct loss to them. Apparently, figuring out that the second hand market enables certain people to buy more new cars than they normally would be able to is not part of their math. Same with CDs.

What you are describing is called an OTDR. Optical Time Domain Reflector IIRC.

There is not much risk if you know what you are doing since the OTDR is only used at the most "convenient" end rather than both ends. Just make your secondary cut further away from where the repair crews will do the initial measuring.