Posts by John Sanders

Re: Fickle Microsoft

""None of use should be dependent upon a single language.""

'None of use should be dependent upon a single language FROM MICROSOFT TO BE USED ONLY ON WINDOWS'

There fixed it for you.

Re: Where's the outrage at "racist" Kuwait?

>>> Maybe doesn't fit the leftist narrative?

Yes, that is what it is, the left has deemed Mr Trump to be a Nazi, and you shall not question the left.

The modern left is just virtue signalling and SJW, they are willing to suicide you so they can keep signalling.

Arguments or reason are of course out of question.

Re: Mostly just games

"""Things that you might actually use for something other than wasting time (e.g.: TurboTax, a version of Photoshop released this decade) don't get a lot of love. It's not really their fault -- a person has to eat -- but it limits the utility of the project from an end-user perspective. If you want that to change, you have to pony up."""

That is not true, not at all.

There are two aspects of Wine that people do not understand.

One is the fact that sometimes functionality is missing in several areas, this includes bugs in Windows that need to be reproduced.

The second fact is that some applications do not run out of the box on Wine's version of its components yet, but do run just fine if you configure Wine to use a DLL directly from a version of Windows (Windows XP ones are great most of the time)

Office 2003 for example will not work well unless you do several DLL overrides.

Wine can't just say hey!, copy these files from windows because you need a license for windows, so sometimes applications do not run for years because wine's DLL is missing functionality, which sometimes depends on other functionality of another component and so on.

you just wait

Until this is in place and they begin to label other things under the classification of "adult content"

Sliiiiipery slope.

And no one, no one voted or asked for this. Our dear elites once again telling us what is best for us.

Re: There is nothing wrong with kernel 4.4

Most people do not know that if you stick with the supported LTS kernel you get back-ported fixes and support for new hardware.

Also once Ubuntu 16.04.2 comes out, Kernel 4.8 will be available officially from Canonical by an "apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-yakkety" away.

Re: Great to see.

I have been calling this AI for a long time: "Bruteforce + large database"

Re: Collect Data Points Until A Statistically Significant Result Is Achieved

About cabals...

Occam's razor: persons close to Trump's group, (or to the government in general) knew of this being discussed, and most importantly knew about "when" the decision was going to be made public.

Now proving inside trading it is another matter altogether.

Re: Maybe they should consider going over to Linux?

"""Few people outside of major corporates have the financial power to get software written for them: The rest have to buy what's on offer, and not much is on offer for Linux."""

That may have been the case 20 years ago, not today, so no reason to keep falling into the same trap.

Re: Fancy that

Correct

In this day and age where we carry mobiles wirelessly connected to atomic clocks the least useful thing on a wristwatch is the clock.

A wrist watch is nothing but a jewel or a fashion accessory these days, ugly accessory = no sale.

Re: One thing's for sure

I wonder what could these large companies be running that can change architecture easily at little cost?

I dunno, something like a free OS with a "mostly" free userland that anyone could adapt to their needs?

If only such a thing would exist... Now if you'll excuse me I have to feed the aquatic, flightless birds.

Re: Is there a petition to insist that we DON'T change the new £5 note?

@Tim Hughes

>> Because I would sign it in a flash. There is so much more important shit to be worrying about.

But, but, but... meh feelinz!

It is all about virtue signaling, never forget that, they need to show everybody how much better people they are than the rest of us.

Re: Exchange?

Sendmail? in 2016? not funny even as trolling.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593270018.do

Re: Trade War

""The US recognised this problem at the begging of the 1980s and tried unsuccessfully to turn it around.""

Really? they tried isn't so hard, they even got tired of so much effort.

Ah the naivety.

Re: Goodbye Hackintosh?

I'll miss being able to test the MacOS built-in VPN client, I guess we'll have to stop supporting Macs.

Re: Like the alleged 'shooter' at the Trump rally

Trump will fire him.

Re: True but

"""whether the edifice will collapse under its own weight on those somewhat shaky foundations."""

Remember, Linux wasn't meant to be big.

As hardware evolves so will Linux, video in Linux was traditionally a walking disaster, nowadays it is far from perfect, but in the space of a year it now allows one to play games at 1920x1080 with moderate fps on any recent card, I predict 120fps next year instead of the 40fps we have now.

Linux has a tendency to snowball every now and then, suddenly some sub-system out of the blue gets much better.

This is a tendency on most open source software, it's the power of having the source code.

The code for Solaris... well, we do not have it, Larry does.

Re: Everything they're doing would be fine

Give me a version of VLC that can interact with a VR Headset so I can have my home cinema, and 5 mins later I'm buying a headset.

Re: Wrong

>> "A qwerty phone? really? Who uses this stuff?"

Me if blackberry made anything affordable.

Re: Thumbs up for LetsEncrypt

>>considering it was entirely artificial and concocted by the latter as nothing more than a cynical spoiler motivated by greed.

Well so far most commercial CA's have enjoyed a free money-printing machine, they weren't going to take this lightly.

I have been using my own CA for ~15 years now, "as I trust myself", never gave a penny to the likes of Comodo, Verisign, Symantec et all.

I'm really glad about the whole let's encrypt enterprise, the entire commercial CA model is a scam of planetary proportions.

Re: "evaluating the insurance risks for buildings"

Thus ensuring software does all the thinking and relegating a human being to be more than an autonomous body for the software.

And they say mobiles are bad for your brains...

Re: Real time trading and some scientific modelling maybe

Essentially relegated to the status of glorified micro-controller that doesn't run as hot as a x86, because exotic things can't match the rhythm of the x86 industry.

Eventually if ARM is not stupid and keeps up they will erode into the PowerPC niche of moderately powerful CPU that doesn't get too hot.

This is an old story.

Re: Will audio quality get better?

>>YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE ANALOGUE TO DRIVE THE EARPHONE COILS!

>>This is daft. The only advantage whatsoever of ditching an analogue jack is to Apple.

Spot on, this only benefits Apple, now if you want to produce iPhorno headphones you need to cash Apple a license.

And I'm waiting to hear people that the last security update for iOS has killed their unlicensed headphones.

But, who cares, whoever buys Apple stuff deserves the Apple treatment.

Re: More hype than reality ... in operations

>> "the ability to just dump containerised applications on top of he hypervisor"

You mean the OS.