For the enterprise version we really need it predictable so it can be managed. Even if talking to MS is harmless and overall a good thing, it means you are having your computer talk to something you may not want too.
At work we are still on Windows 7 with little chance going over to 10 because of stuff like this. (I would prefer Linux, but our management is stuck in the 1990s)
Is it? They are not preventing Netflix or YouTube, There isn't any sign that they are slowing down their performance. It is just they are counting the data the same as any other internet download. The only twist is that Verizon isn't charging for bandwidth for its own service. You could say the cost of Verizon mobile is being paid from the service fee, and you are actually paying more then than the data cap fees.
They are not too many original ideas anywhere. However part of accademia is the ability to site ideas that you have collected. However using a collection of preused ideas usually creates something that is unique and original.
The best punishment for him, would be the fact that these evil governments really just don't care about his involvement in wiki-leaks. He is let out, he goes to sweden gets tried fairly for his charge.
Well I take it like a normal sales pitch. He is just happening to push Open Source software. Do Great things, customized to your business, improve your work flow Open Source. Do Grate things, customized to your business, improve your work flow SAS
The problem with Open source is the large projects that get all the attention and support and maintenance. Are usually the general purpose applications, not the specialized ones that people really need.
What is really needed is companies to bring back their own internal development staff with skilled developers and architects to make the workflow customized to their business and work around many of the oddities, that what vendors will say as unsupported or not best practices, or what an open source project will go that is just a stupid idea.
The normal argument would be you have the source just put your fixes yourself... Which is fine, except you are working off of someone else baggage, so the next upgrade you have to reapply your patches, and have no support. While an in-house app will do just what you want it to do.
Many times we get modded insightful or interesting because that is what someone else was thinking. However Insightful or Interesting should be something that they didn't think of and somehow enlightened from the comment. But for most of the time our comments are the standard dribble, not bringing anything new to the table, however you get comfort knowing that you are not alone, thus the Agree mod, or you find the common dribble against your values, however it was a decent argument, have a disagree option.
The problem with a volunteering leaving of a company is a really bad thing, almost worse than layoffs. While it makes it easier for the managers to sleep at night knowing that they don't have to let a person go, which for most humans really hate doing. But for the company the people who are smart enough to see the writing on the wall, know to jump ship early knowing that they can get a good or better job elsewhere. The ones who stick around are often the ones who lack the experience to see the warning signs, or just don't have the skills to get another job, and gamble on not being the one who gets canned. Thus populating the company with less experience or less than ideal employees. This creates a downward spiral of less quality and causing real layoffs (as we see here) which makes allowing for growth much harder.
But when you see voluntary leaving it is a bad sign.
That is the go to fix for traffic safety. Lower the speed limit. There was an accident where I live a few years back and they figured the speed limit was too high. Not really thinking. It was an area of 3 intersection that had 6 lanes of traffic all going in different directions where to get to your destination you need to be in the correct lane. On a steep hill Then to top it off people j-walk across this all the time while there is a good cross walk 100 meters pass this tricky traffic intersection. The thing is people rarely ever speed on this intersection. For the most part they are just trying to get to speed. Ok a kid died in an accident that is sad. But lowering the speed limit doesn't really solve much. Especially as the study shows that traffic wants to go faster. Perhaps you should look at the problem and find a better way for safety
AMD had a brief period of success in the x86 market in the early 2000's Until between the Pentium 4 and the Intel Core 2. Where people actually wanted AMD Chips not as a chip ripoff of Intel Chips, but because they were a serious competition with many good features that were valued by end use desktop users.
International waters are rather lawless areas. The US Navy may attempt to protect it from someone else (Microsoft being an american company) however they are under no obligation to do so.
Maintenance must be a killer... Having to dive to fix a problem. I am not even making fun of Microsoft track record of less than stellar reliability to make 5 years of uptime seem possible. But connections to the systems, Cable get corroded or broken. Pirates you have millions of dollars of equipment under the sea mostly unguarded. If they may want to bring it up to steal and sell the hardware... Or they could hack into it the hard way (To get information from it)
Apple vs. Tesla. They are really two different markets. Tesla is attracting engineers, because what they are producing seems something useful and world changing, while Apple products while nice, and remain to be great products. But Musk's empire Tesla, Space X, and SolarCity. are bringing grander changes to the world, Something that perhaps history will look back with fondness, on our generation and say we accomplished something. While the generation preceding this Apple was credited for the personal computer for the masses, the iPhone and iPads while wonderful technology are at best would be footnotes in history. We know about Edison and Marconi, Ford and Einstein, Jobs and Gates. Because of what they did to change the infrastructure of the world. However Apple is profiting off the infrastructure it help built, while Tesla is building a new one. If you were to talk to your grand-kids in 30-50 years, what would you like to say to them. That you invented a slightly thinner iPhone, which would still look bulky to your grand-kid. Or that you were involved in making electric cars practical for average use, helping get us off the dependency of polluting oil, giving you cleaner air to breath, and slowing down global warming, so you have the ability for a prosperous life.
That is why Apple is now second tear for engineering. Their business is in old stuff like personal computing, the future is in green energy.
Now in terms of price you will probably be better off just buying the pieces you need. If you need some sort of custom piece, then you are probably cheating in what you are making. Lego creations for the most part are limited to the design of legos basic parts. They are some custom parts but not so many. The challange for the hobby is to build based on the lego design.
I would say the Apps combined with market uncertainty. Microsoft failure is due to the same factors of its success in the Desktop Market. It isn't about technology or design, but the consumers comfort level.
Apple has the Apps and it is #1 (for any particular hardware brand). There is little worry that next year there won't be the new iPhone and when you upgrade you have your apps.
Android as Apps also and it is #1 (for overall use of the Operating System). Being it is such a popular brand there is little worry that next your Android phone upgrade will still keep your current apps.
Windows Phone: Has apps but it isn't #1 is is a distant 3rd and cant win on any metrics of popularity. You are not going to invest in a phone and apps if there is worry that the next upgrade will be incompatible or just not there.
How about a completely redone-HTML5 skeleton and have a design competition for who can theme it the best. CSS has come pretty far since 2001. Where you around when they tried to show off beta? OMG Things are different... DIFFERENT!!!!!! Every change on Slashdot appearance is met with harsh retribution.
- Unicode support: We can put in a few more codes. But lets not get crazy here. We wouldn't want to really mess things up too much. The problem with some more modern sites is they get messy allowing people to be too creative in what characters they use. Slashdot is more of read the text. Not make it fanciful. A few extra characters say for mathematics could be useful though.
- Fix the broken "lameness filter": This is Slashdot not Stack Exchange. posting long code will not help explain your point. While I don't think I have ever ran across problems with a billeted list.
- No more StartsWithAShill and other trolls: Trolling has always been a problem on Slashdot and it is hard to fix. Part of the problem is this is suppose to be an area to express your free ideas and a community govern moderating system. This means sometimes controversial ideas or unpopular ones will be labeled as trolls, just because the moderator disagrees with it. But it isn't deleted.
- Allow older accounts...: Ohh you used a free web site longer then someone else. Go pat yourself on the back, and bask in your mountains of participation trophies.
Well what consists news for nerds. Or do you mean news for 1980s nostalgia where we cling to our Commodore 64 and Apple ][ and IBM XT for the PC and large Vax, IBM, and Prime mainframes for business. Where just keeping the systems running was a full time job.
Times change and what is considered nerdy stuff changed too.
You should be glad that slashdot didn't fall like digg
It isn't in the DNA for truck drivers who don't need a truck but just want it for the status. However business who use trucks, if they find that Tesla, can maintain the power they need, for the time they need it, they may switch over to save fuel cost.
The challenge for a pickup truck you will need to expect that it will be operating 10-12 hours a day, doing heavy work. That would be akin to an electric car with 800 mile range on a single charge.
Yes a pickup will run out of gas during the day. However you can fill up in around 5 minutes, electric takes longer. Solve those problems and you should be fine.
There are problems with single payer too. It isn't just some magical cure all. I am not talking about money, the US is wealthy enough to fund this with increased taxes. However the issues is in the details. Giving all the population health care will increase demand for health care services, and if the health providers are limited to government controlled rates, then there is little motivation for expansion to meet such demand. So there will be long wait lines for health services. Hoping the long wait time will make some people give up and not get health services, or wait too long and causing their problem to escalate to a more dangerous state.
With a single payer you need to insure that we have growth in our health care infrastructure to meet the demand, and allow competition across health care systems to make sure they are invested on increasing improvements to their methods. Then you need to make sure that the health care organizations don't go overboard. and make them too expensive on the people's money. Keep on raising taxes for expensive improvements with small results isn't beneficial, as such money could go to better areas in need.
There is a reason why the ACA was over 900 pages long. It isn't because of some grand conspiracy it is such actions are very complex with a wide range of cause and effect that could cost lives.
Ok I get it the cars appearance was due to a popular movie. Nostalgia aside it's look and design are really not that cool looking to 2016 sensibilities. It would be nice if they had elements of the Delorean that was popular, but also style changes for today's look.
Well more to the point, no matter what happens the damage is done. Source Code isn't as much of a threat to the organization as it is people who understand what it is doing.
From the sound of the story, it seems like they are doing high-frequency-trading, and if the source is released then competitors can just start up their own competing company, and you loose out on your competitive advantage. However source code is usually minor part of the detail. It is when people understand what is going on and why it does it. Then they can go ahead and make a better version using the principles they learned maintaining your code.
I have worked across a lot of organizations and I never copy the source code to my personal devices, and when I am done with the project I remove whatever I have. However what I learned from working with the code is where I am at an advantage. I find new ways to solve problems, I keep track of it, and flag it in my mind as a better way to approach a problem. I learn and get better. If I were to just take the code and make a competing company, I wouldn't have myself a real advantage, as I may not understand it.
The laws of thermodynamics still do apply. Person a average body temperature is 97.6F vs a person whose average body temperature is 99F There body is converting the energy of food to body heat, and people have different averages. Also if you eat 2,000 calories a day. and due to your body you poop out 300 calories while someone else will poop out 400 calories.
The problem with most diets today it isn't based on good science, where there is a full study, but take a small sample of people and just use what seemed to work.
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For the enterprise version we really need it predictable so it can be managed. Even if talking to MS is harmless and overall a good thing, it means you are having your computer talk to something you may not want too.
At work we are still on Windows 7 with little chance going over to 10 because of stuff like this. (I would prefer Linux, but our management is stuck in the 1990s)
AT&T and Sprint Have LTE too. Perhaps you are a hating Verizon fanboy.
Is it?
They are not preventing Netflix or YouTube, There isn't any sign that they are slowing down their performance. It is just they are counting the data the same as any other internet download.
The only twist is that Verizon isn't charging for bandwidth for its own service.
You could say the cost of Verizon mobile is being paid from the service fee, and you are actually paying more then than the data cap fees.
They are not too many original ideas anywhere.
However part of accademia is the ability to site ideas that you have collected. However using a collection of preused ideas usually creates something that is unique and original.
The best punishment for him, would be the fact that these evil governments really just don't care about his involvement in wiki-leaks. He is let out, he goes to sweden gets tried fairly for his charge.
They are making low wages... Boo Hoo.
Well stop hacking and get a real job.
Except for most of these hackers are outside the US where the $15,000 USD is a lot of money.
Well I take it like a normal sales pitch. He is just happening to push Open Source software.
Do Great things, customized to your business, improve your work flow Open Source.
Do Grate things, customized to your business, improve your work flow SAS
The problem with Open source is the large projects that get all the attention and support and maintenance. Are usually the general purpose applications, not the specialized ones that people really need.
What is really needed is companies to bring back their own internal development staff with skilled developers and architects to make the workflow customized to their business and work around many of the oddities, that what vendors will say as unsupported or not best practices, or what an open source project will go that is just a stupid idea.
The normal argument would be you have the source just put your fixes yourself... Which is fine, except you are working off of someone else baggage, so the next upgrade you have to reapply your patches, and have no support. While an in-house app will do just what you want it to do.
Agree mod as well.
Many times we get modded insightful or interesting because that is what someone else was thinking. However Insightful or Interesting should be something that they didn't think of and somehow enlightened from the comment. But for most of the time our comments are the standard dribble, not bringing anything new to the table, however you get comfort knowing that you are not alone, thus the Agree mod, or you find the common dribble against your values, however it was a decent argument, have a disagree option.
The problem with a volunteering leaving of a company is a really bad thing, almost worse than layoffs. While it makes it easier for the managers to sleep at night knowing that they don't have to let a person go, which for most humans really hate doing.
But for the company the people who are smart enough to see the writing on the wall, know to jump ship early knowing that they can get a good or better job elsewhere. The ones who stick around are often the ones who lack the experience to see the warning signs, or just don't have the skills to get another job, and gamble on not being the one who gets canned. Thus populating the company with less experience or less than ideal employees. This creates a downward spiral of less quality and causing real layoffs (as we see here) which makes allowing for growth much harder.
But when you see voluntary leaving it is a bad sign.
That is the go to fix for traffic safety. Lower the speed limit.
There was an accident where I live a few years back and they figured the speed limit was too high.
Not really thinking. It was an area of 3 intersection that had 6 lanes of traffic all going in different directions where to get to your destination you need to be in the correct lane. On a steep hill Then to top it off people j-walk across this all the time while there is a good cross walk 100 meters pass this tricky traffic intersection. The thing is people rarely ever speed on this intersection. For the most part they are just trying to get to speed.
Ok a kid died in an accident that is sad. But lowering the speed limit doesn't really solve much. Especially as the study shows that traffic wants to go faster. Perhaps you should look at the problem and find a better way for safety
AMD had a brief period of success in the x86 market in the early 2000's Until between the Pentium 4 and the Intel Core 2. Where people actually wanted AMD Chips not as a chip ripoff of Intel Chips, but because they were a serious competition with many good features that were valued by end use desktop users.
cons:
2. Pirates
3. Russian Subs
4. American Subs
5. Depth chargers
International waters are rather lawless areas. The US Navy may attempt to protect it from someone else (Microsoft being an american company) however they are under no obligation to do so.
You are right It should be 1.0936^(-11) Football fields.
That will get rid of any cultural confusion.
Maintenance must be a killer... Having to dive to fix a problem. I am not even making fun of Microsoft track record of less than stellar reliability to make 5 years of uptime seem possible.
But connections to the systems, Cable get corroded or broken.
Pirates you have millions of dollars of equipment under the sea mostly unguarded. If they may want to bring it up to steal and sell the hardware... Or they could hack into it the hard way (To get information from it)
Apple vs. Tesla. They are really two different markets. Tesla is attracting engineers, because what they are producing seems something useful and world changing, while Apple products while nice, and remain to be great products. But Musk's empire Tesla, Space X, and SolarCity. are bringing grander changes to the world, Something that perhaps history will look back with fondness, on our generation and say we accomplished something. While the generation preceding this Apple was credited for the personal computer for the masses, the iPhone and iPads while wonderful technology are at best would be footnotes in history. We know about Edison and Marconi, Ford and Einstein, Jobs and Gates. Because of what they did to change the infrastructure of the world. However Apple is profiting off the infrastructure it help built, while Tesla is building a new one.
If you were to talk to your grand-kids in 30-50 years, what would you like to say to them. That you invented a slightly thinner iPhone, which would still look bulky to your grand-kid. Or that you were involved in making electric cars practical for average use, helping get us off the dependency of polluting oil, giving you cleaner air to breath, and slowing down global warming, so you have the ability for a prosperous life.
That is why Apple is now second tear for engineering. Their business is in old stuff like personal computing, the future is in green energy.
Now in terms of price you will probably be better off just buying the pieces you need. If you need some sort of custom piece, then you are probably cheating in what you are making. Lego creations for the most part are limited to the design of legos basic parts. They are some custom parts but not so many. The challange for the hobby is to build based on the lego design.
I would say the Apps combined with market uncertainty.
Microsoft failure is due to the same factors of its success in the Desktop Market.
It isn't about technology or design, but the consumers comfort level.
Apple has the Apps and it is #1 (for any particular hardware brand). There is little worry that next year there won't be the new iPhone and when you upgrade you have your apps.
Android as Apps also and it is #1 (for overall use of the Operating System). Being it is such a popular brand there is little worry that next your Android phone upgrade will still keep your current apps.
Windows Phone: Has apps but it isn't #1 is is a distant 3rd and cant win on any metrics of popularity. You are not going to invest in a phone and apps if there is worry that the next upgrade will be incompatible or just not there.
How about a completely redone-HTML5 skeleton and have a design competition for who can theme it the best. CSS has come pretty far since 2001.
Where you around when they tried to show off beta? OMG Things are different... DIFFERENT!!!!!! Every change on Slashdot appearance is met with harsh retribution.
Well what consists news for nerds. Or do you mean news for 1980s nostalgia where we cling to our Commodore 64 and Apple ][ and IBM XT for the PC and large Vax, IBM, and Prime mainframes for business. Where just keeping the systems running was a full time job.
Times change and what is considered nerdy stuff changed too.
You should be glad that slashdot didn't fall like digg
It isn't in the DNA for truck drivers who don't need a truck but just want it for the status.
However business who use trucks, if they find that Tesla, can maintain the power they need, for the time they need it, they may switch over to save fuel cost.
The challenge for a pickup truck you will need to expect that it will be operating 10-12 hours a day, doing heavy work. That would be akin to an electric car with 800 mile range on a single charge.
Yes a pickup will run out of gas during the day. However you can fill up in around 5 minutes, electric takes longer.
Solve those problems and you should be fine.
There are problems with single payer too. It isn't just some magical cure all.
I am not talking about money, the US is wealthy enough to fund this with increased taxes. However the issues is in the details.
Giving all the population health care will increase demand for health care services, and if the health providers are limited to government controlled rates, then there is little motivation for expansion to meet such demand. So there will be long wait lines for health services. Hoping the long wait time will make some people give up and not get health services, or wait too long and causing their problem to escalate to a more dangerous state.
With a single payer you need to insure that we have growth in our health care infrastructure to meet the demand, and allow competition across health care systems to make sure they are invested on increasing improvements to their methods. Then you need to make sure that the health care organizations don't go overboard. and make them too expensive on the people's money. Keep on raising taxes for expensive improvements with small results isn't beneficial, as such money could go to better areas in need.
There is a reason why the ACA was over 900 pages long. It isn't because of some grand conspiracy it is such actions are very complex with a wide range of cause and effect that could cost lives.
Ok I get it the cars appearance was due to a popular movie. Nostalgia aside it's look and design are really not that cool looking to 2016 sensibilities. It would be nice if they had elements of the Delorean that was popular, but also style changes for today's look.
Well more to the point, no matter what happens the damage is done.
Source Code isn't as much of a threat to the organization as it is people who understand what it is doing.
From the sound of the story, it seems like they are doing high-frequency-trading, and if the source is released then competitors can just start up their own competing company, and you loose out on your competitive advantage. However source code is usually minor part of the detail. It is when people understand what is going on and why it does it. Then they can go ahead and make a better version using the principles they learned maintaining your code.
I have worked across a lot of organizations and I never copy the source code to my personal devices, and when I am done with the project I remove whatever I have. However what I learned from working with the code is where I am at an advantage. I find new ways to solve problems, I keep track of it, and flag it in my mind as a better way to approach a problem. I learn and get better. If I were to just take the code and make a competing company, I wouldn't have myself a real advantage, as I may not understand it.
The laws of thermodynamics still do apply. Person a average body temperature is 97.6F vs a person whose average body temperature is 99F There body is converting the energy of food to body heat, and people have different averages.
Also if you eat 2,000 calories a day. and due to your body you poop out 300 calories while someone else will poop out 400 calories.
The problem with most diets today it isn't based on good science, where there is a full study, but take a small sample of people and just use what seemed to work.