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I would use Linux on servers hands down. There is no doubt about it period. But I would not put myself in the torcher of using it on Desktop/Laptop. The UI is buggy and applications crash frequently. No matter how good google docs or any other online doc tools are, I would need Microsoft office to run smoothly on my desktop & laptop. For development environment, MacOS would be my first choice.
I am not too familiar with the details, but the government website is informative, as is the Wikipedia article.[1][2]

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/us-citizenship/citizenship-through-nat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization#.C2.A0United_St...
public policy variables are outside the market efficiency hypotheisis because. markets are therfore not efficient wrt to public policy in general. they only are efficient with repsect to a specificially dilineated (analytically tractavle) public policy context at a single points of time.
The article is less than convincing. The most convincing reason for me to switch to Linux was being poor in college/grad school.

The options were using Windows Vista (and, later, Windows 8) on a cheap laptop or using Ubuntu on that cheap laptop after removing Windows Vista. An Apple laptop wasn't possible.

After that, I just stuck with using flavors of Ubuntu on laptops (even after buying a Macbook). Maybe the author should've pushed more "free" (as in, not $1000+) and less "freedom."
I wonder what evidence broke this. Did he blab about it or was this a submarined parallel construction?
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Many "poor" people, not necessarily have an unsatisfing life. Take some random tribe in South America: poor yes, but very likely to be happy
Or NASCAR
There's one huge downside to this: eliminating poverty by reducing population leads to aging society, which leads to shitty pensions for retired workers, higher taxation, higher public debt, etc, which in turn leads back to population reduce.

Basically, birth control leads to a slow death of civilization. The most tragic thing about it is that you can't do anything about it, as denying women the choice would be violation of their human rights.

Therefore, advanced societies are doomed to die out and be replaced by more primitive ones. Which happened few times in history (e.g. Roman Empire) and is already happening again in some part of the world (e.g. EU immigration crisis)
The problem with that is that it penalizes legal residents waiting for their citizenship

My brother has been in the US for nearly 20 years. Started out as a grad student, then as a H1-B. Took him more than 10 years just to get a green card, then 5 years more to be eligible for citizenship.

All this while, he must have paid several hundred thousand dollars in taxes (6+ figure income over 15 years)

Why should another immigrant get the same benefits as him faster than he could by paying even less in taxes?
It's just a marketing strategy, to get more people on board of the Windows-as-a-service train, a train without exit doors.

Good that I hear about that, I will buy a current gen CPU than and install a Win7 for legacy applications for the next ten years. And will await Android for Desktop or Google Fuchsia. The Windows days are over, that's happens when a CEO favors short turn strategies and burns his platform.
The two stories doesn't match.

It was a decision of the girls ( or their father ) [1] not to be naturalized. They could've just did the swim with the boys and they would've got their citizenship.

On the other hand my friend had NO CHOICE in her 24 year stay in the U.S. to get a citizenship ( although she followed all the rules / laws of the country ).

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-c...
Have you considered using the internet to find a copy of the manual?
I understand completely what you are saying, but I take the opposite view.

These people were hunted like animals and had to remain fugitives. That term highlights the horror of the situation, and 'escaped from slavery' seems more appropriate for those who could never again be returned to slavery.
They will actively refuse to issue new Windows 7 licenses to OEM on these new chips. They are kind of actively preventing older Windows versions running on these chips, yes.
People resort to -ism shaming tactics because they aren't comfortable discussing the dirty parts of human nature; they'd rather just silence the conversation.

Saying that women are not interested in serious dating isn't sexist, although it is an oversimplification of a real issue.

In 2012, 34 percent more women than men graduated from U.S. colleges. Today, the odds of a college graduate marrying a non-graduate are lower than at any point since the 1950s. Hence, there are probably more women not engaging in serious relationships.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/06/has-being-si...
> Why should another immigrant get the same benefits as him faster than he could by paying even less in taxes?

Because it's not a zero-sum game.

One person's right to citizenship does not erode another person's right to citizenship.
I wrote some really effective data recovery software a decade ago. Before I knew it governments around the world were buying it up in droves. I then got pushed (not by the governments, but by my partner at the company I had) to write a special forensics edition, that does a byte-by-byte scan of the source disk rather than a block-by-block scan, which would extract embedded files out of a hard disk and basically ensure that nothing would be missed.

That code eventually got a big fancy "forensics" UI wrapped around it with a bunch of other functionality such as logging the process, and it got sold for $1k / copy. It would sell upwards of 80 copies at a time in a single batch. It was very profitable (though I personally did not see much of that profit).

I always felt very uneasy about it and I stopped developing that line of software even though at this point I could get ~50% of the profit if I were to continue it. I had no idea what it was actually being used for all of the time and I had no way to find out. I do know however that some of the time it was used for good, to catch people distributing child pornography and so forth, however I don't know what percentage of the time it was used for that kind of thing, and I'm also aware that that is the justification that is used for a lot of surveillance. Philosophically I believe in counter-survelliance more than surveillance, because I'm pro privacy and pro citizen empowerment rather than the other way around, I think the balance of power has gotten out of whack as this article nicely illustrates.
> Why did the FBI come looking for it years later? Embarrassment?

I'd wager it has more to do with the... significant overlap between rocket guidance and long range missile guidance. Nothing to stir up a good panic like the thought of the latter ending up in North Korea's hands - how much good it'd actually do NK being entirely besides the point.
Europe was like that for a long time. France and Germany were vey scared when eastern countries joined EU.
Just for kicks the back of my iPhone is plastered with EFF stickers. And I live in China :-D
it's as if they want you to forget what happened.

Let's just focus on a space station and travelling to the red planet we know little about. What footprints on the moon?
> Enrichment from market-tested betterment will go on and on and, over the next century or so, will bring comfort in essentials to virtually everyone on the planet

That smells strongly of the same kind of delusion that fuels capitalism, infinite growth.

> What, then, caused this Great Enrichment? Not exploitation of the poor,

Apparently, none of our clothes or electronics are being fabricated by (economic) slaves.

While I do mostly agree with the article's conclusion,

> But the modern world came from treating more and more people with respect.

it all looks terribly cherry-picked to me in order to make a certain point: "The current system is fine, we can all feel good" or thereabouts.
Yes.

CTL-ALT-F1

CTL-ALT-F7

This takes you from the graphics environment to a full screen text console and back, which re-initializes the graphics environment. It doesn't affect your running applications.

First reported in 2012.[1] Search for "cursor disappears ubuntu" for the long and broad history of this bug. I see there's been progress on the bug report.[2] Unfortunately, fixing it seems to have broken some other things. But after years of complaints and confusion, effort is being put in on it.

Visualize having to explain this to a CFO whom you're trying to convince to use Linux.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/118001/how-to-restart-only-mi...
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video...
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Why does The New Yorker publish puff pieces like this? It only tarnishes their reputation as a journal for elegant and thoughtful writing.
You'd be better off trying to make a perpetual motion machine. [1]

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/05/26/warp-dri...
Actually, both Apple and Orange are public companies :D
It will take much more than papers and doctors' testimony to convince me that jambing a piece of metal through a bone, with a drill, isn't painful. The guy beside me wasn't very happy, especially when they had to make that second attempt. Countless carpenters have put nails and staples through soft tissue, and occasionally through bone. That certainly hurts. I also cannot imagine pulling these things out is very fun. An IV can fall out unnoticed. A pin in a bone isn't going anywhere... which I guess is much of their purpose.

If I were the FAA, rather than issue drills to flight attendants, I'd focus on perhaps preventing at-risk people from boarding aircraft in the first place. Or train cabin crews to identify situations before they need the in-flight crash cart.
Slightly redeeming, apparently devs can now at least transfer users directly to the "manage subscriptions" page:

Rather than needing to code your own subscription management UI, your app can open the following URL:

https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/man...

Opening this URL launches iTunes or iTunes Store, and then displays the Manage Subscription page.

See: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...
It is the other way around Microsoft wont support Windows 8.1 and older on newer processors.
Won't happen. Microsoft has made threats like this before, and backed off at the last minute.
China disagrees. They're still growing, in spite of a bloody ruthless birth control system (though I seem to remember that they've loosened it a bit, not sure).

Also, the Romans died out because they fell into decadence, which is exactly what the west is doing right now.
pmen is right. We considered crowd investments for our own startup, and concluded it's too much work, hassle and inflexibility. Republic's model seems to mitigate this somewhat, but (probably?) only works in the US and even they state on their site:

"The tradeoff for the benefits of investment crowdfunding is the complex regulatory requirements that companies must follow. The general spirit of the law is simple: companies should provide complete and accurate information so that the public can make informed investment decisions. Incorrect or misleading information comes with severe legal consequences. In addition to the following, you should also consult your attorneys and accountants to ensure full compliance with all legal and accounting requirements. Republic as a funding portal is not authorized to and does not provide legal, accounting or investment advice."

Sounds like it could very well still be too much for us.
Windows 10 isn't very popular, and that is good. No other operating system is as hostile to the users privacy, and certainly no desktop operating system where everyone stores many private files. And not just personal files, but think of all the doctors offices, lawyers - which makes Win10 illegal to use in many countries, as it transfers automatically your key strokes, microphone samples, screenshots, search history, application list, hardware configuration and what not else that god forbids to dozens of domains that have not even Microsoft in it's name. And the domains and IPs ate whitelisted in the signed 64-bit kernel mode part of Win10 network layer. Good night, no work around possible. Except you carry a hardware firewall around attached to your laptop. So it's good that the "free" (free to exchange for a Win7/8 license dongled to one mainboard) Win10 failed all expectations and got little uptake. Most companies are still on Win7 and all literated users too beside some foolished fanboys/early adopters/noobs. Many reverted back to Win7 after the got Win10 tricked "by accident". XBoxOne failed spectacular too being far far behind PS4 and even WiiU sales. And WinMobile/Phone 10 is dead too, with as little as 0.6% global market share. If I would be an investor, I would fire this failed CEO and some of his top managers incl PR department and restore and rebrand some of their former good products.
Don't physicians in the US take the hippocratic oath too?
Sometimes, before I had my own place, I'd get home after work and run into a flatmate in the kitchen. We'd chat for a while, I'd go to my room, and the next day I'd forget my keys and/or wallet, because my 'get home and put keys and wallet in the usual place' script got interrupted.

Maybe that's sort of similar?
> Also, the Romans died out because they fell into decadence

No historian on earth believes this. That's a myth from Gibbon.
the latter is not a business, it's an idea chasing money.

Then they end up selling out to the advertising machine.
"...with a minimum of $50K over ten years, in taxes to the US government, and they have not committed any crime, they should be given citizenship..."

In this hypothetical scenario would your brother not have paid $50k and been granted citizenship much sooner than the other?
No. I hate it because while ease-of-use is better, discoverability is much worse. I am constantly seeking answers to UI problems on Google.

Also, how is it a success if I hate my tool with passion, no matter how efficient I am? We must have different value systems... :)
what is the technology stack?
There is intended to be a difference between poor UX and the godawful phrase "dark patterns." The amount of overintellectualization you can do about a given experience doesn't contribute to the darkness.

This, of course, is part of why it's such an awful phrase. It's too nerd-cool to avoid being overapplied by cool nerds.
it will work just fine, you just won't get support from Microsoft and it Windows 7 will not use any of the newer processor features.
but even that title is not correct. it will work, just won't receive support for it.
I switched to Mac as well but it's not the applications that keep me from going back, it is the wifi and printer support.
This is just so much better on a Mac than on Linux.
When I last checked years ago Apple's human interface guidelines were excellent and described in minute detail elements, sizes, and layout principles that help with an application's design. I referred to them when looking at visually balancing preference menus for something completely unrelated and the advice stayed with me. Maintaining a design consistency across a platform helps greatly.
This is where information governance comes in. It's fine to add bespoke profile fields in SharePoint (or any other app), and the Identity hub is will just ignore them if it's not got rule defined. If it's decided that the 'favourite animal' field is to be pushed out to other apps, then a new rule is added to the Identity sync process. It's all fail simple as you say; the main problem always tends to be departmental politics.
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I'm not so sure about that. Tarsnap is a bootstrapped business with an actual viable product and paying customers, but I'd never go for this. Even if I needed a sudden burst of capital (which is unlikely, since costs tend to change smoothly in SaaS companies), why not wait a few months and pay out of the profits which accumulate in that time period? Or, for that matter, pay out of last year's profits (which are now in my personal account, but I can always invest them back into the company if needed)?

If I needed to make a one-time purchase of a million dollars of servers, this would make sense; but nobody does that these days. Costs are overwhelmingly recurring, and if you need to borrow money to pay your recurring costs, you're not going to have the income stream lenders want to see to repay a loan.
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Interestingly, I've been a hardcore Dell fan for many years with many tens of thousands of dollars in purchases - home and work.

I bought an outlet Latitude two weeks ago. It came with Win 8 which is awful. It would not run Win 7, no matter how many tricks I tried (numerous driver issues).

I do not want Win 10. The Dell is being returned, and I am buying my first ever personal MacBook (I'm done with Linux on the laptop, too - too busy these days to deal with the typical issues that have plagued Linux for 15 years now).

I'm done with Microsoft and any company that wants to tie themselves to them: Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, etc.
For flights to/from EU member countries, Regulation 261/2004 is applicable. I guess Rule 240 would be the US equivalent.

It can be tricky to get the airline to comply when they deny responsibility. So there are intermediary agencies that do the claim paperwork (and take the legal actions if necessary), taking a small percentage of the reward only if successful.

With the help of an intermediary, I successfully invoked Regulation 261/2004 against KLM after a flight was cancelled due to mechanical failure. The correct reward was ultimately transferred approximately one year after the original flight.

https://www.airhelp.com/en/know-your-rights
Reading another article I wonder if the chipset won't be more of a problem. Like USB drivers.
I get your point but other OS have similar tools. OSX has the standard sort. Windows has a sort as well. Python on either will give you a easy way to script some automation.

You mentioned images and specifically cropping, Photoshop has had batch processing and actions for 20 years and it can crop/convert/etc folders of files. Actions can do incredible stuff, arguably much more that some imagemagick scripts. It's also had JavaScript scripting built in since CS1 (2006?) if you want to get really crazy including letting you build GUIs for artists if you make something truly useful.

If you can't see why people prefer Windows/OSX I think you probably just don't use the same apps. There are no true replacements for many professional apps on Windows/OSX especially in the image/video/music/audio fields. There are apps and they superficially look like they cover the same areas but in actual use they are way behind in features and usability.

I use all 3 OSes. Each has their advantages.
I'll just link back to this comment and claim my account was hacked...
Long ago I asked this question on quora, it got OK answers including one of my own that's now deleted, but this post prompted me to check on it again and it's now got a really great answer, check it out: https://www.quora.com/During-the-Apollo-launches-what-happen...

In particular I am happy about the timing. They accept inertial guidance to be a bit off because transferring it closer to T=0 would make it less accurate because of rocket vibrations!
What was most shocking to me was that some of these kids managed to get U.S. passports without being citizens. How does that happen? I'm a first generation immigrant. My parents were naturalized when I was 10. AFAIK that means that I automatically acquired their naturalization. But I do not have a naturalization certificate of my own, and I don't have a copy of my parents certificate. I do hold a U.S. passport, but that is apparently not ironclad proof of citizenship. I'm frankly not sure what I would do if Trump gets elected and the brown shirts show up no my doorstep to haul my ass back to Germany because my passport is invalid.

Ironically, my situation is a little less tenuous because I am the biological child of naturalized immigrants rather than the adopted child of natural-born citizens. Like so many things about this story, that seems so wrong.
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Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind, what is it called?
> there is no excuse to that in 21 century countless of people are experiencing countless of package and dependency crap errors.

Are you arguing that homebrew is better than apt-get/pacman/etc?

Not to mention the situation with Windows' installers and their standard tactic of spraying my system with DLLs and untrackable registry writes.
The legal history of the concept of citizenship in the United States is remarkably circuitous. The original text of the constitution referred only to citizens of individual states, never to citizens of the United States. Consequently, federal law and jurisprudence lacked any conception of national citizenship until the decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1856, in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney created the concept from whole cloth for the purpose of declaring Scott, a slave, not to be an American citizen and therefore not entitled to petition a federal court. The precedent held until the constitutional amendments of Reconstruction rectified it, explicitly introducing the concept of national citizenship into the constitution as a side effect.

There has remained a great deal of ambiguity about who is entitled to American citizenship by birth. Although the constitution as amended grants certain rights only to national citizens, the amendments that made national citizenship a part of the constitution failed to describe comprehensively who is entitled to citizenship. As a consequence, the question of who is and who is not a citizen, rather than being been decided on constitutional grounds, has been left to Congress. The odd result is that ordinary federal law, not the constitution itself, decides who is entitled to many fundamental constitutional rights and protections, including the basic rights to live in the United States and vote in national elections.

An interesting series of changes to the federal laws governing national citizenship occurred in the years after World War II. Because thousands of American soldiers and sailors were for the first time being permanently stationed abroad, there arose the question of whether their children born abroad had a right to citizenship. Federal law had previously granted citizenship to all children of American citizens, but during this period the laws were re-written to exclude the illegitimate children of military men with foreign women from citizenship in most cases. Today the law deciding the citizenship of children born abroad to a single American parent is a tangle of considerations of the marital status of the parents, when the child first visits American territory, how long he or she stays, etc.

I've sometimes wondered what the world might have been like in another several generations if those exclusions hadn't been made; by that time, due to the wonders of sexual reproduction, it's likely that tens or hundreds of millions of people outside the United States would be able to find an American in their ancestry, and therefore to claim American citizenship. Eventually, almost everyone would be an American. What would the world be like if everyone were entitled to vote in American elections (and obligated to pay American taxes)?