Which is the general problem with software patients. While patients are to protect the inventor from people stealing their work, the Software industry moves too fast, so by the time it goes off patent it is mostly worthless.
For software patients a 5 year limit should be in place. Giving time to be sold and marketed. However when it gets off patient it isn't ancient technology, just not leading edge.
Other technologies that have been patented the 20 years is a good time frame, allowing the idea to be developed and made profitable, because physical things, needs tooling, a factory to create, and a storefront to sell. Taking 20 years to make the venture profitable. Then after that you can go by the Good Will of the branding. For software this cycle would had gone 4/5 times.
We will need more proof then just "Trust Us" we are trying to protect you. In the mist of a lot of findings of Hacking from the Russian government, melding with the elections, often with electronic means. With being a part of the government that like to keep companies on a tight leash.
Kaspersky may actually being doing good things without opening the door to the Russian government, and may actually be better protected with their products from Russian hacking. However we will need solid proof on this, otherwise we will just use our countries tools.
However allowing a company who makes most of their revenue from Ads, providing a Ad Blocker while would cut down the Net-Ads would also prevent Content providers from picking alternate revenue options for their sites.
That and I think they found out, whatever they do, people are going to accuse them of being evil. Even early on in Googles history, people accused them because someones opposing idea was higher on the search results then their idea. And claim it is because Google is manipulating results.
Microsoft always had issues with the internet. Setting up a SLIP of PPP Server in windows 3.1 was very difficult. I actually switch to Linux back in the early 1990's so I can use the internet, as it was easier to connect with the dip command. Windows 95 Internet was kinda an after thought, they really wanted people to use The Microsoft Network opposed to services like AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe. Windows 98 - XP: You can use the internet but on Microsoft terms. Active-X and OS particular plugins were needed for any robust data beyond Text, images and hyperlinks. Visual Studio during this time enforced this methodology, where if you needed to do any advance coding, you had to inject JavaScript code to get it to work the way that was needed. Because of the OS plugins and Active X a flood of web based malware was common. Windows Visa-Today (10): Microsoft had been mostly forced to follow the standards. However they are tying to get you to use Bing and pressure browser makers to change default search to Bing. Web Versions of Office are decent however security is now up to the could not the software.
Yes, I see a pattern of knee-jerk reactions to technology implementations.
The ideas are not terrible. It is often the implementation combined with ego preventing such ideas to be better perfected.
AMP for GMail isn't necessarily bad. However the push to the user nature of email makes it a risky topic to perfect. Normal HTML encoded emails had created a mountain of security problems. Having a robust running web app in your email could make it much harder to keep peoples data safe. Fake email from the DMV having you renew your registration and pay $50 fee all from your web page without seeing that it is going so a page like dmv_ny.gov.ru
Now This could be good too. Allowing us to directly interact with our emails without having to break out of the email to deal with information in it. But it will need to be safe and when we see this in our emails we should be able to trust it. That is the chalange that needs to be addressed before just blindly implementing the stuff.
Because they didn't need them anymore. German efficiency + implementing Japanese Lean methodology , if you don't need it anymore get rid of it as it will be wasting space.
For these older models, they don't need the space for a full production line. As most people will go to the Junk Yard to get the missing part. Offering 3d Printing of the part is probably the most affordable way to do it. As custom tooling a part will be wicked expensive.
You experience is not uncommon. However trying to get windows working on an older PC, often has similar problems. Being that you are trying to put a newer version a system, there may be things that you may not be able to get drivers anymore for. A google search finds that that particular driver isn't supported on the version of Windows. And links to the old windows version is gone. This is common with a lot of older Win-Devices. where the PC and the driver do all the heavy work, and the device itself is rather basic, A printer not dealing with PCL or PostScript but just raw commands to get the paper, and draw what and where... If you can get the driver it works, if not, you are SOL.
Killer apps have been ported to different platforms too. Office for the Mac, Photoshop for windows.... And they work quite well, however these apps just don't seem to have the right feel as on their intended original platform.
Lock-in is for suckers, however the point is what actually makes Linux special other then its licensing agreement?
The point for Linux for the desktop is to show that Linux can be used for the Desktop.
It has been this way from day 1.
Linux on a personal computer is more of a Workstation OS then a Desktop OS. Outside the server/appliance role Linux is a good OS for software development, and just serious computing tasks.
Can it work as a desktop, yes, however for the average person why bother? The PC they get has Windows installed by default anyways, and most of their devices they will want on it will indeed work with Windows. Linux for the desktop for people without the need of any Linux's strong point just isn't a good sell. Windows comes free as in beer on the PC anyways.
That said, I normally switch older hardware to Linux (Built for Windows XP) as it will be updated, and still run at a good speed. And its desktop features are good enough for people to use. But on newer hardware, you might as well stick to Windows, if you are not interested in other OS's
Actually this list is rather surprising that there isn't any really popular Linux App, that isn't widely used in other platforms. This list is mostly just rather basic tools for 2018, Web Browser, Video Player, Text editor, and Windows Managers.
Back in the days. Macintosh had its Adobe Suits for desktop publishing DOS had its word perfect and Lotus 123 Windows had its Office Suite Amiga had its video tools
In general the other OS's seems to have a flagship tool that stands for how the product is primary meant to be used for.
Linux doesn't seem to have that. Probably mostly because it is heart it is a server OS. So what really probably should be on the list is Apache MySQL PHP Or whatever is more popular at the moment.
We don't want other countries getting access to IP, however we don't want to regulate business and allow them to do what is the most profitable, but we want these business to hire only American workers, without telling the companies that they have to hire American workers. We want to hire American workers to fill all the jobs, but we are at full employment and companies have a hard time finding employees.
CEO of the #1 spot don't like competition, CEO of the #2 spot does, until they get to #1.
While the best course of action when the #1 spot gets competition, it to figure out why #2 is growing, honestly validate if you are doing something wrong, figure out why you customers may be moving away. Then make a plan of action to adjust for this.
I think a lot of it is the YouTube algorithm, and DMCA controls in place. Which may not be current with today's population. A lot of content creators have recently switched off YouTube to other sources. Because the Algorithm requires them to dump content out to stay current, vs make good content, and also it is way too easy for someone to demonetize your video during its peak viewing period, by claiming copyright breach, say from a poor review of a product, or just some other fare use.
If the content creators especially the ones who make the best stuff, isn't getting their dues. They will switch to other platforms. If your platform isn't showing stuff people want to see, then the viewers will switch too.
However for the CEO in a public statement, can only really say their product is good and the other product is lacking.
At least with my East Cost perspective. Most 9-5 jobs normally have the last meetings end at 4:00PM. The trick is to make yourself known in the office doing work at the early hours. (7am, 8am emails from work) let your boss and exec know that you come in early. When others get into work later, have a lot of deliverables done and ready for them.
Now if you are normally working 9-7 and you decide to work 8-6, in general if your management and team knows you are working in the early hours they normally don't have much an issue at all. Just as long they know you are doing your fair share.
Well if you looked at the pooling, Trump while being behind in the polls had small peaks where he was ahead, then it would go back down. Right before the election his poling was approaching Clinton due to increase talk about reopening the email server investigation. Now normally this is just a slap in the wrist type of violation, because we were electing a president not a CIO. What the fake news did was amplify the real news making small stories big ones, by taking real stories putting them out of context and adding wrong facts in the mix, even if you may not fully believe it, it is enough to color your impression. Both Trump and Clinton are very disliked as candidates. The solid Reds (~40%) will vote for Trump and the solid Blues (~40%) will vote for Clinton. Then you have the people in the middle (~20%) who will make their decision, based on who they fear most in the office. Now Clinton had won the popular vote, however not in the right locations giving Trump an electoral win. In the surprise areas it was often population who on the average had less education and training in understanding fake news from real ones. So Fake news would be just enough to tilt an undecided voter to go one way or an other. And worse, having them choose that it isn't worth it to vote at all.
Because Cable Companies run as psuto-monopolies. Where they operate in a particular area without much competition. I live in Charter/Spectrum Territory. Comcast operates less then a few miles away from my home. However me as an individual cannot switch to Comcast or the people who live a few miles away in the next state can switch to Spectrum.
My options are limited. Discontinue Cable (where I will have No High speed internet access) and limited TV services (too much tree coverage for satellite) Do deal with what I have.
Because Spectrum owns the cable and the miles of infrastructure. I am as an individual is mostly powerless. However we have these things called governments, where I and other members of my community can vote on who can make rules and encourage them my issues. Where they can act as an overall control on such a company where otherwise I would be powerless to do anything about.
Set your alarm clock an hour earlier then As a morning person myself, I just do things earlier in the day then others tend to do. Chances are your job will be slightly accommodating, allowing you get in an hour early and leave an hour early. As this normally expands the coverage in the company.
As someone with only a measly 20 years of experience can attest. The code from these indispensable people, are really not that impossible to take over, especially after these trouble makers leave and they don't actively work to stymie your investigation and mapping of the code.
Bad programmers make code that you think you need to keep them hired. Good programmers make code that you want to keep them hired.
Still even when the flue vaccine misses its mark, it still normally lessons the symptoms if you are to get the flu. It can be the difference between being out of work (feeling like crap) for a week vs being in the hospital for a week and out of work for an additional week.
Having the flu before, I make a point to get a vaccine every year (normally in September when it first gets out) just so I can avoid as much of the pain and misery of having the flu as I can. If I get it, it may be a few days of misery vs a week.
Normally this leads to vile thinking to express this statement as true.
Most modern racist statements goes off the following ideas. 1. Racism isn't a problem 2. The minority group wants more then it deserves 3. We should stop such groups from demanding more. 4. We should role back any special considerations for them 5. We should give preference to the majority group
I see this as a reflection of human kind, not of Google.
As we get more polarized, it gets too easy to see the other group as bad or evil, we tend to forget that the other people have the same set of problems that we do. And are just trying to make it in the world the same as us.
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Off patent doesn't mean public domain.
Which is the general problem with software patients.
While patients are to protect the inventor from people stealing their work, the Software industry moves too fast, so by the time it goes off patent it is mostly worthless.
For software patients a 5 year limit should be in place. Giving time to be sold and marketed. However when it gets off patient it isn't ancient technology, just not leading edge.
Other technologies that have been patented the 20 years is a good time frame, allowing the idea to be developed and made profitable, because physical things, needs tooling, a factory to create, and a storefront to sell. Taking 20 years to make the venture profitable. Then after that you can go by the Good Will of the branding. For software this cycle would had gone 4/5 times.
I am not a Trump supporter. However this is common across nearly all countries even the US previously.
We will need more proof then just "Trust Us" we are trying to protect you. In the mist of a lot of findings of Hacking from the Russian government, melding with the elections, often with electronic means. With being a part of the government that like to keep companies on a tight leash.
Kaspersky may actually being doing good things without opening the door to the Russian government, and may actually be better protected with their products from Russian hacking. However we will need solid proof on this, otherwise we will just use our countries tools.
However allowing a company who makes most of their revenue from Ads, providing a Ad Blocker while would cut down the Net-Ads would also prevent Content providers from picking alternate revenue options for their sites.
That and I think they found out, whatever they do, people are going to accuse them of being evil.
Even early on in Googles history, people accused them because someones opposing idea was higher on the search results then their idea. And claim it is because Google is manipulating results.
Microsoft always had issues with the internet.
Setting up a SLIP of PPP Server in windows 3.1 was very difficult. I actually switch to Linux back in the early 1990's so I can use the internet, as it was easier to connect with the dip command.
Windows 95 Internet was kinda an after thought, they really wanted people to use The Microsoft Network opposed to services like AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe.
Windows 98 - XP: You can use the internet but on Microsoft terms. Active-X and OS particular plugins were needed for any robust data beyond Text, images and hyperlinks. Visual Studio during this time enforced this methodology, where if you needed to do any advance coding, you had to inject JavaScript code to get it to work the way that was needed. Because of the OS plugins and Active X a flood of web based malware was common.
Windows Visa-Today (10): Microsoft had been mostly forced to follow the standards. However they are tying to get you to use Bing and pressure browser makers to change default search to Bing. Web Versions of Office are decent however security is now up to the could not the software.
Says the baby boomer who is still angry over the Graphical User Interface, and trolls on his amber vision vt100 terminal.
Yes, I see a pattern of knee-jerk reactions to technology implementations.
The ideas are not terrible. It is often the implementation combined with ego preventing such ideas to be better perfected.
AMP for GMail isn't necessarily bad. However the push to the user nature of email makes it a risky topic to perfect. Normal HTML encoded emails had created a mountain of security problems. Having a robust running web app in your email could make it much harder to keep peoples data safe. Fake email from the DMV having you renew your registration and pay $50 fee all from your web page without seeing that it is going so a page like dmv_ny.gov.ru
Now This could be good too. Allowing us to directly interact with our emails without having to break out of the email to deal with information in it. But it will need to be safe and when we see this in our emails we should be able to trust it. That is the chalange that needs to be addressed before just blindly implementing the stuff.
Because they didn't need them anymore.
German efficiency + implementing Japanese Lean methodology , if you don't need it anymore get rid of it as it will be wasting space.
For these older models, they don't need the space for a full production line. As most people will go to the Junk Yard to get the missing part. Offering 3d Printing of the part is probably the most affordable way to do it. As custom tooling a part will be wicked expensive.
You experience is not uncommon. However trying to get windows working on an older PC, often has similar problems.
Being that you are trying to put a newer version a system, there may be things that you may not be able to get drivers anymore for. A google search finds that that particular driver isn't supported on the version of Windows. And links to the old windows version is gone. This is common with a lot of older Win-Devices. where the PC and the driver do all the heavy work, and the device itself is rather basic, A printer not dealing with PCL or PostScript but just raw commands to get the paper, and draw what and where... If you can get the driver it works, if not, you are SOL.
Killer apps have been ported to different platforms too. Office for the Mac, Photoshop for windows.... And they work quite well, however these apps just don't seem to have the right feel as on their intended original platform.
Lock-in is for suckers, however the point is what actually makes Linux special other then its licensing agreement?
The point for Linux for the desktop is to show that Linux can be used for the Desktop.
It has been this way from day 1.
Linux on a personal computer is more of a Workstation OS then a Desktop OS. Outside the server/appliance role Linux is a good OS for software development, and just serious computing tasks.
Can it work as a desktop, yes, however for the average person why bother? The PC they get has Windows installed by default anyways, and most of their devices they will want on it will indeed work with Windows. Linux for the desktop for people without the need of any Linux's strong point just isn't a good sell. Windows comes free as in beer on the PC anyways.
That said, I normally switch older hardware to Linux (Built for Windows XP) as it will be updated, and still run at a good speed. And its desktop features are good enough for people to use. But on newer hardware, you might as well stick to Windows, if you are not interested in other OS's
Actually this list is rather surprising that there isn't any really popular Linux App, that isn't widely used in other platforms. This list is mostly just rather basic tools for 2018, Web Browser, Video Player, Text editor, and Windows Managers.
Back in the days.
Macintosh had its Adobe Suits for desktop publishing
DOS had its word perfect and Lotus 123
Windows had its Office Suite
Amiga had its video tools
In general the other OS's seems to have a flagship tool that stands for how the product is primary meant to be used for.
Linux doesn't seem to have that. Probably mostly because it is heart it is a server OS. So what really probably should be on the list is Apache MySQL PHP Or whatever is more popular at the moment.
We don't want other countries getting access to IP, however we don't want to regulate business and allow them to do what is the most profitable, but we want these business to hire only American workers, without telling the companies that they have to hire American workers. We want to hire American workers to fill all the jobs, but we are at full employment and companies have a hard time finding employees.
But if I am willing to take the ads, Why cant I stop You Tube from bugging me to buy Red all the time.
CEO of the #1 spot don't like competition, CEO of the #2 spot does, until they get to #1.
While the best course of action when the #1 spot gets competition, it to figure out why #2 is growing, honestly validate if you are doing something wrong, figure out why you customers may be moving away. Then make a plan of action to adjust for this.
I think a lot of it is the YouTube algorithm, and DMCA controls in place. Which may not be current with today's population.
A lot of content creators have recently switched off YouTube to other sources. Because the Algorithm requires them to dump content out to stay current, vs make good content, and also it is way too easy for someone to demonetize your video during its peak viewing period, by claiming copyright breach, say from a poor review of a product, or just some other fare use.
If the content creators especially the ones who make the best stuff, isn't getting their dues. They will switch to other platforms. If your platform isn't showing stuff people want to see, then the viewers will switch too.
However for the CEO in a public statement, can only really say their product is good and the other product is lacking.
At least with my East Cost perspective. Most 9-5 jobs normally have the last meetings end at 4:00PM.
The trick is to make yourself known in the office doing work at the early hours. (7am, 8am emails from work) let your boss and exec know that you come in early. When others get into work later, have a lot of deliverables done and ready for them.
Now if you are normally working 9-7 and you decide to work 8-6, in general if your management and team knows you are working in the early hours they normally don't have much an issue at all. Just as long they know you are doing your fair share.
Well if you looked at the pooling, Trump while being behind in the polls had small peaks where he was ahead, then it would go back down. Right before the election his poling was approaching Clinton due to increase talk about reopening the email server investigation.
Now normally this is just a slap in the wrist type of violation, because we were electing a president not a CIO.
What the fake news did was amplify the real news making small stories big ones, by taking real stories putting them out of context and adding wrong facts in the mix, even if you may not fully believe it, it is enough to color your impression.
Both Trump and Clinton are very disliked as candidates. The solid Reds (~40%) will vote for Trump and the solid Blues (~40%) will vote for Clinton. Then you have the people in the middle (~20%) who will make their decision, based on who they fear most in the office.
Now Clinton had won the popular vote, however not in the right locations giving Trump an electoral win. In the surprise areas it was often population who on the average had less education and training in understanding fake news from real ones. So Fake news would be just enough to tilt an undecided voter to go one way or an other. And worse, having them choose that it isn't worth it to vote at all.
Because Cable Companies run as psuto-monopolies. Where they operate in a particular area without much competition.
I live in Charter/Spectrum Territory. Comcast operates less then a few miles away from my home. However me as an individual cannot switch to Comcast or the people who live a few miles away in the next state can switch to Spectrum.
My options are limited.
Discontinue Cable (where I will have No High speed internet access) and limited TV services (too much tree coverage for satellite)
Do deal with what I have.
Because Spectrum owns the cable and the miles of infrastructure. I am as an individual is mostly powerless. However we have these things called governments, where I and other members of my community can vote on who can make rules and encourage them my issues. Where they can act as an overall control on such a company where otherwise I would be powerless to do anything about.
Set your alarm clock an hour earlier then
As a morning person myself, I just do things earlier in the day then others tend to do. Chances are your job will be slightly accommodating, allowing you get in an hour early and leave an hour early. As this normally expands the coverage in the company.
As someone with only a measly 20 years of experience can attest. The code from these indispensable people, are really not that impossible to take over, especially after these trouble makers leave and they don't actively work to stymie your investigation and mapping of the code.
Bad programmers make code that you think you need to keep them hired.
Good programmers make code that you want to keep them hired.
Still even when the flue vaccine misses its mark, it still normally lessons the symptoms if you are to get the flu. It can be the difference between being out of work (feeling like crap) for a week vs being in the hospital for a week and out of work for an additional week.
Having the flu before, I make a point to get a vaccine every year (normally in September when it first gets out) just so I can avoid as much of the pain and misery of having the flu as I can. If I get it, it may be a few days of misery vs a week.
Normally this leads to vile thinking to express this statement as true.
Most modern racist statements goes off the following ideas.
1. Racism isn't a problem
2. The minority group wants more then it deserves
3. We should stop such groups from demanding more.
4. We should role back any special considerations for them
5. We should give preference to the majority group
I see this as a reflection of human kind, not of Google.
As we get more polarized, it gets too easy to see the other group as bad or evil, we tend to forget that the other people have the same set of problems that we do. And are just trying to make it in the world the same as us.