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Posted by james4591
Land is, despite what state politicians try to downplay or deny, sitting fallow in areas between Fresno, CA, and Kettlemen City, CA. Rainfall since this policy was started has dropped by significant percentages. Crops that used to be plentiful or sizeable in harvest, are now smaller or less developed at harvest resulting in many crops being phased out to either be replaced with crops more suited to arid climates. I've overseen farms being sold, repossessed by banks, farmland being sold for redevelopment for urbanization due to lack of sustainability under the new restrictive regulations. I've seen prices rise, even a few cents at first, but they've been rising for about a few years now.

I don't even want to get started on California and gasoline taxes, but honestly, we shouldn't be having to pay nearly 100% in price over the rest of the nation.

AS far as my stance of immigration? We have laws for a reason. We're a society. Societies have laws. Laws have to be enforced to maintain the society, or society collapses into chaos and anarchy. I would prefer to live in a society that is a society, not an anarchic maelstrom.

Posted by tomman
Once again, why people sticks to Win10!? Aside of hardware compatibility (an artificial restriction), "videogames", and the "new car smell" effect...

Posted by james4591

Posted by wertigon

Posted by tomman
Once again, why people sticks to Win10!? Aside of hardware compatibility (an artificial restriction), "videogames", and the "new car smell" effect...

Hardware compatibility - Linux has better HW compat, period. Not even a contest. Only exception is new hardware with Windows-only drivers, which, well, isn't happening often these days.

Video games (aka AAA-games) - Steam Linux got a lot of those nowadays, and they're just growing bigger and bigger.
"new car smell" - Win10 isn't even new anymore, did I hear "fresh coat of moldy paint"?

I have to respectfully disagree with Hardware Compatibility. I've used GNU/Linux for many years (at least 20) on and off, and usually hardware compatibility is good but only "IF" you stick to certain hardware, and don't use bleeding edge, otherwise you're in for a load of problems. As far as new hardware goes, Windows is the hardware compatibility king. Driver usually are developed for Windows FIRST rather than GNU/Linux or even BSD, unless the OEM actually provides drivers or contribute code and firmware to the kernel like Broadcom, Nvidia, AMD, etc. If memory serves, Nvidia is one of the very few that provides drivers for a spectrum of operating systems beyond Windows and even GNU/Linux.

As far as games go, yes Steam has brought many games to GNU/Linux and FreeBSD as has Wine, but it's not perfect, and far from perfect at all. Many online MMOs still utilize Ring 0 anti-cheating software that does not work, nor will ever work on Wine. Unless more games actually get GNU/Linux ports and get Linux friendly anti-cheat software, it won't be really getting "better". The only reason many titles are finally getting ported effectively is because of Mesa's Nine support API through Gallium3D as a translation medium and Wine being able to effectively translate Direct3D to Mesa3D and sadly that is limited to DirectX 9.0c with VERY limited support for DirectX 10 or higher revisions.

Posted by james4591
Mice and Keyboards are usually under general HID device protocols, so respectively any new keyboard or mouse with similar functions to previous generation models will automatically have support which is fickle at best in terms of a wow-factor.

Posted by james4591
ARM, RISC, and PPC servers are often under specialty vendors who have pre-built systems for them. Example: Oracle's SPARC servers traditionally have come with Solaris. This argument is a bit negligible because these aren't x86 based servers in high proliferation, though efforts to port Windows NT4 in the past were made, the proliferation of those markets was considered very low in marketshare compared to standard x86 based servers, and efforts to port NT5(2000) were subsequently scrapped.

Windows 10 does offer a special IoT version to the market around ARM based Pi systems. I have no idea how useful it is nor how it works though. Though not ultimately successful, Windows Mobile and RT were available on some ARM based devices like smartphones and tablet PCs as well. I had a Lumia 640 LTE and for a smartphone it was actually more reliable than my LineageOS 14.1 powered Zenfone 2e ever has been, crashed apps far less, and had very little problems with performance unless the apps were outside the recommended hardware requirements for higher end devices. My Zenfone 2e tends to crash Google Play Services several times a day due to problems with resources and resource management that just aren't solved nor ever seem to be.

Posted by james4591
As far as games go, yes the availability of many titles is nice and has brought a lot of good quality games to Linux and even FreeBSD, but the MMO market is still the linchpin needed to get GNU/Linux into higher availability. Without the Ring 0 support, even if only emulated through a psuedo-kernelspace in Wine, it still doesn't mean much to switch to GNU/Linux or even FreeBSD. Many of these MMOs are Free-to-Play games. Free-to-Play games on a Free-to-Use OS, is the holy grail of win-win situations. You get those, you get the marketshares to GNU/Linux. Trust me, even I would love to one day see this headline "Wine adds emulated psuedo-kernelspace allowing Ring-0 anti-cheat software to work under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD" and ditch this horrible nightmare OS myself.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Online RPGs can't be played on Linux

Posted by CaptainJistuce
It is the same reason we're seeing the argument that Linux has better hardware support than Windows. It MUST be true, because to be false would mean that Linux is inferior to Windows in some way, and Linux is objectively superior in every regard.

Posted by james4591
The problem of global warming is the science around it is lackluster and is actually heavily politicized as a means to exert governmental force over populations without merit or need.

Posted by james4591
The liberal policies have done more damage than good, if you read into the dirty fine print of the issues.

Posted by james4591
The problem of illegal immigration is one thing people don't consider.
Rather than trying to solve problems back in their own countries, these people leave their countries which not only robs their homelands of a capable workforce that could change their own future, but it creates a problem for the local population of the country they immigrate into the issues of laziness among the local population. You may say, "It's jobs Americans don't want", but what does that really mean? It means "Americans won't take these jobs not because of manual labor or less pay", but because they feel, "it's not my problem, let someone else do it." but that also extends back into the family unit as well. Rather than mom and dad, or the kids taking up chores to keep the house going, they look for hired help to do the work for them. While it does give some person a job, it also robs the family of not only money, but also invites the aspect of being lazy that can spill over into more areas, like the yard upkeep, painting the house, caring for the children, washing the dishes, etc. The point is, it all starts small, but builds slowly...

Posted by CaptainJistuce
I've tried. My experience with Linux is... not great. It is pretty awful, actually.
My experience with FreeBSD is a lot better, but... it still doesn't do what I need it to do(play games).

Posted by james4591
The problems of publishers refusing to target GNU/Linux or even broad based UNIX support is never going to end until one key problem ends within UNIX as a whole. The infighting between developers, projects, and distribution maintainers.

Posted by james4591
The fact is GNU/Linux is a mess. It's an organized mess, but a mess is still a mess regardless of how well you can push the pile around.

Posted by tomman
Choice is good. Excess of choice is not.

Posted by tomman
Anyway, back to topic. Apparently Edge is doomed, nobody wants to use it, and Microsoft is well aware of this. [Can someone please give Blink/WebKit some decent competition???]

Posted by tomman
In the meanwhile, MS is working on yet another Windows version, this time targetting appliances ChromeOS machines: ...why?!

Posted by tomman
... Modern drivers ...

Posted by Covarr
You seem to be misunderstanding what people have a problem with here. The problems people have with Red Hat and Canonical have very little to do with open source licensing and everything to do with monolithic, bloated software, corporate-style culture and development, and basically un-Linuxing Linux. Strong-arming the community into homogenizing everything and limiting user and developer choice is not good for Linux, and really ought to be saved for the proprietary realms of Apple and MS.

Heck, I say this as someone who likes Windows, uses Windows 10 as my daily driver... Red Hat and Canonical are Microsofting up Linux, and that's a bad thing, even if the licenses remain open.

Posted by tomman
I thought PDO (which I've used in the past) was simply a better way to connect to databases and run queries while being able to catch errors as exceptions (seriously - I remember last time I used PDO was to replace someone else code which told nothing when things blew up - with PDO not only it was much easier to do stuff, I was able to actually know what went wrong). In fact, after reviewing the documentation, I see no ORM capabilities whatsoever.

SELECT
    car.model, car.year, car.license_plate, car.person, person.name
FROM
    car
  INNER JOIN
    person ON car.person=person.id

Posted by tomman

On JPA you have JPQL which is more or less the same as SQL, and actually that's what I use for most queries. But as soon as you need dynamic queries (say, I may or may not need cars filtered by year, while filtering out by license plate prefixes all the time, unless if I want only a list of all cars driven by Lil' Bobby Tables, on which case I don't care about specifics), it's better to switch to something else (like Criteria API) instead of concatenating SQL/JPQL/whatever weird SQL dialect is offered by your ORM.

SELECT
    car.model, car.year, car.license_plate, car.person, person.name
FROM
    car
  INNER JOIN
    person ON car.person=person.id
WHERE
    person.firstname="Bobby"
  AND
    person.lastname="Tables"
ORDERED BY car.year,car.model DESCENDING
LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20

$cars = get_rows('car', $filter);

foreach $cars as $r {
    $person = get_rows('person', array('id',$r->owner));
    $tbl_row = array($r->model, $r->year, $person->firstname, $person->lastname)
    print_table_row($tbl_row)
}

$cars = get_rows('car', $filter);
$persons = get_rows('person', NULL);

foreach $cars as $r {
    $tbl_row = array($r->model, $r->year, $persons[$r->owner]->firstname, $persons[$r->owner]->lastname);
    print_table_row($tbl_row);
}

$fields = array('cars.model', 'cars.year', 'person.firstname', 'person.lastname')
$tables = array('car' => '', 'person' => 'car.owner')

foreach get_rows($fields, $filter, $tables) as $r {
    print_table_row($r);
}