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Comment Re: CORRECTION (Score 1) 33

XDG and other Freedesktop.org specs are careful to identify the concept of a Unix-like operating systems. And nothing in the spec requires it to run on UNIX specifically, although the spec does identify features from UNIX that it depends on. Implement those features and you can implent this spec. Linux and several others have done so already.

Comment Re:Windows is NOT a professional operating system. (Score 1) 90

> from a security, stability or usable prospective

You and me both but most people only score feature count. If they've grown accustomed to some oddball feature for a few months they feel they can never use anything else.

That they went their entire lives without it before isn't relevant.

From a market perspective, rushing more features to market makes more people with money happy than getting a good product to market.

Comment Re:Thanks for the push to Linux (Score 2) 90

Near as I can tell (I'm a Mac user), MS keeps business people on it by integrating their apps together. This is a godsend to the C-Suite who have other things to dork around with than their computer. Office contains just about anything they want to use. They do not know anything else and they do not want to know anything else.

I periodically have runins with Office on a Mac because the management really likes bullet points and needs to lift them from our docs lest they be forced to think for themselves. Their idea of a Pooperpoint window means a bloody mess of smaller and smaller type several layers deep (populated by bullet points) or with some diagram contains several different kinds of arrows. They feel this helps organize their thoughts. However, a well-constructed Pooperpoint slide deck can be done, it requires one do more than know Pooperpoint. Organizing one's thoughts so others can understand the flow is not easy. Pooperpoint gives the management the idea all they need is to slap bulletpoints and arrows on slides and Presto, Instant Pudding. If you go more than two layers deep in bullet points, your audience is lost. And only a sparse few on a window enough to guide your talk over. If you are using Pooperpoint for something else, you might want to consider using something else.

The rest of the apps to me seem like garbage, including the mechanics of Pooperpoint. I'm happy doing documents in Latex including pictures and diagrams. Word is just too painful, but requires no thinking as long as your formatting is simple. But then I only write math and logic and am not about to spend days poking symbols into fucking Word. Doing slide decks is then easy for Latex (using the Beamer package). I can just cut and paste from my other documents. Latex (and Beamer) makes making whizzy things in slide decks hard, but then whizzy things should not be in slide decks.

Comment Re:They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score 5, Interesting) 40

It wasn't just the generators or sea wall. Another one of the problems is that they never installed the hydrogen reformers designed to burn off the hydrogen buildup from an overheating core safely.

As recommended by the reactor manufacturer and installed on US plants.

There would have been a lot less boom with them installed.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 0) 199

So many logical fallacies in there, buddy.

If you want these things, then you will pay for a good public education.

This presumes that "good public education" is being funded with tax money. It is, conclusively, not. It has in fact been getting significantly worse - which is why people are opting out of it.

Do you want educated neighbors?

No formal education is, in most cases, better than bad formal education. I'd rather my neighbors not be stupid but think they know something, which is what the last 50 years has produced.

Who you can hire for your business? Who will have enough income to purchase your product? Who will be employed and can adapt their skills to a rapidly changing environment?

There's no evidence that education can elevate someone over their inborn genetic potential. You've either got the building blocks for intelligence or you don't. See also the last several centuries of 3rd world "enrichment" that's been carried out by one means or another - education, charity, etc. - of places like India and Africa. I'm sure you can look up average IQs if it's of interest.

Who will be employed and can adapt their skills to a rapidly changing environment?

I can hire a home schooled person, then? Because this criteria definitely doesn't fit your average public schooled individual.

Who will know how to make healthy choices for themselves and for their neighbors (you)?

Yes, the Food Pyramid, D.A.R.E., and "Sex Ed" had a fantastic impact on society's wellness trajectory - I'm sure we can all agree on that, right? (This is sarcasm.)

Who will carefully consider and thinking critically about public issues and use that knowledge when they vote?

OK, now I know you were being facetious. There's no way you're talking about state schooled kids here.

Comment Too little, too late (Score 1) 52

This is the wrong approach. Perhaps it'd have been accepted earlier, but they've shot themselves in the foot due to their inaction over the grooming pedophilia groups that were operating with impunity - and seemingly, protection! - on their platform. It was brought to their attention repeatedly, publicly, and they did all the wrong things and did not address the issue.

Fuck them.

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