Normally poor quality isn't from the product designer, but some guy in middle management who want his bonus ships the product out before all the issues has been worked out. Then after he ships it out, factoring that they can fix the problems later on, then decides to move all the workforce onto an other project.
What is the value of freedom. How many human lives are worth freedoms. That is the biggest question. If you want to be very safe, we need to live and work in a controlled environment with little to no freedoms.
If it were a Microsoft Issue, this would be so a bug and not a feature.
Linux/Unix are an old design of an OS. There are some designs in its main way of doing things that do not work in today's much more secure environment.
Things have been upgraded Telnet replaced with SSH, hacks on FTP to make it more secure. But the underpinning is still there. Back in the day where computers needed to do things.
We all love to be part of a social clique that will make you seem better then the rest of the world. Mensa is one of those groups that requires a high IQ score. Having a high IQ doesn't mean you are a good person or a desirable member of society. Just that you are good at tests meant to measure your IQ.
The IQ test is better at finding people who have mental retardation who may need additional assistance.
Well companies can do much more to improve on that front though. 1. Architect the product, not just build it. All too often the focus is on meeting business objectives and security is added later. An product that was well thought-out and designed handles security as part of the core design as well as the business objectives.
2. No Back door, design the program so the programmers can't get in without having rights to do so. The password DB should be only managed by the computer and humans shouldn't be able to figure it out.
3. Infrastructure planning. The Website shouldn't also be the Database server. The Database should only allow access from select sources, and give permissions that are appropriate to the user.
4. Plan for failure. Figure if someone breaks into the system find way to minimize the impact. Make sure the Salt for your hashes are hard to find, etc...
Right now at the Gas Pump we have 87, 89 and 91 gas. Having this change to Gas, Charging, and Hydrogen would be a welcome sign. The problem we have with our energy policies is that we are trying to find a sliver bullet. This isn't the case anymore, we will need to have a more diverse set of engines that run on different methods. This will allow for greater competition in the energy market and keep price per performance uniform.
For the most part these paid bonuses are not as much cheats but shortcuts from hours of grinding. The cheat codes of old, had things like God Mode where you just won't dye, so you can go on and fight the bad guy boss bare handed if you want to. Or just automatically give you the ultimate weapon, or boost your stats to the max.
Now the paid stuff is usually gust giving you extra game cash to buy equipment where otherwise you will need to play the game for days to earn it.
Now also in the old days, most "free" games were shareware. Often you had a few levels then you needed to buy the game. Today you get the full game however you either are asked the pay for game upgrades, or sift threw adds. You are still paying for the game one way or another. Unless you were happy with just playing the first few levels.
The most amazing thing about the universe is the smaller something gets the more complex it is. Which is at odds to our general world view, where larger things are more complex then smaller things.
Just the fact the odds that we are hear thinking about it is such amazingly low probability Infinity/finite is practically 0% chance that we exist.
That is the reason for American Strength. WWII Ended. The US was one of the few major countries not ravaged by wars. Having a monopoly on nuclear weapons, we were not in threat of retaliation for an other war. The Men came back and with the GI bill many of them went to college. After dealing with the Great Depression and WWII the population was starving to take advantage of the modern age, Cars, Radio, TV, a Home of their own. As part of the great depression a lot of public works projects and infrastructure paid off. As well with the war effort manufacturing became optimized.
So we had all this stuff while the rest of the world is trying to rebuild. So the 1950's and 1960's was America's golden age. By the Mid 60's the rest of the world has been rebuilt and are in the process of getting back on track.
American dominance is less about how much better people we are, but more about being lucky enough to get a head start after WWII
The problem is while the money is going back to the US. It isn't a 1 for 1 improvement in American jobs. American Companies are efficient, they are getting damn too efficient for the average working Joe. Automation, electronic quality checks in the like. Means a a factory 30 years ago needed 500 people to keep up with demand needs about 50 people to today. Most of these 50 people are paid more, however there will be some at minimum wage too.
Well if you were to mine for gold, vs bit coins what is the difference.
Gold is just a piece of medal, while has some nice properties to it, its value is that it is a rare element. Bit Coins are from a unique hash combination which are rare to generate and is getting harder and harder to find. It is just the same thing.
The issue is mining isn't free, it takes labor and power to crunch the data, so if they told people with you 100,000 USD investment I can get you 200 bit-coins valued at 120,000 USD. However what they ended up doing is with that 100,000 USD investment the return say equates to 100,100 USD. So the investors are suing as they were expecting a 20% margin while they are getting a 0.1% margin and they could have put their money in something better.
Yes I pay for my Band Width. I also pay taxes to support my roads, but if I ship out a product I need to pay the delivery company to ship the product. If I buy a product I either pay the shipping costs or it is included in the price. The shipping company and the retailer also pays for the roads and infrastructure too.
If someone wants to make a living providing a web site, they have to make money some how to get those silly things like Water, Food, Shelter, Health Care, etc... As well they need to pay for their bandwidth, their servers, power, often additional staff who wants their own Water Food and Shelter... A hobbyist can probably have a decent website running, but they will need an other job to keep it running. But if that website gets popular, and it expands it no longer becomes a hobby and needs additional funding and time to let it grow.
There's no way Amazon.com is going to walk away from $125,000 in free money when they have absolutely no risk.
No Risks except from legal action, possibly a class action suite. Distrust in the service and decline of its brand name. Lack of repeat customers and new projects being posted as they are afraid they will be considered a scam project as well.
I will not blame Perl or Slashdot. But MySQL and MicrosoftSQL 2000+
Late 1990s most programs were off a lot of file I/O. Writting to a file and reading from it. But full fledge Database systems were Expensive and took a lot of resources. So Perl with its Regular Ecpressions made it a great tool for handling these files.
MySQL and Microsoft started to push high quality, affordable and runs well on low end systems database software. Allowing for Languages with better DB integration without the RegEx ugliness so PHP and.NET took over perls web space.
I only use AdBlock when the advertising gets abusive. Music, live video, full screen popups. For the normal stuff I let it pass. I am going to the web site for some content I want to get, and maintaining a website isn't free. As well I don't want to pay to view the site, so I will take most adds as a fair trade.
Because of the "tight clausterphobic environments" it is a good idea to keep noise down, as too much noise will anger people who are trying to sleep or focus on their work. Being in an area without much room, there isn't places for too much enjoyment so they should be kept busy while they are awake as to prevent boredom, which could lead to noise and people getting on others nerves.
Finally a strict chain of command is needed in such of an environment as to keep everything running, and prevent too much trouble.
The Claustrophobic environment is the problem. The rest is an attempt to reduce the other problems that comes from it.
Micros Systems and and Sun Microsystems. If you don't want to get eaten by oracle as it tries to consolidate as people are not longer buying Oracle DB (Too expensive). You better make sure your name isn't like micro systems
The reason why companies can offer such large sizes for free is because most people will not come close. They probably looked at the statics and saw each user was using an average of 3gigs and not even using the 20gigs. However other companies are advertising more, so they just reconfigured the quota system to 1TB and they are competitive again. No major upgrade to their systems, just changing a few bits around.
The issue that I see with Network Neutrality is this. You pay for bandwidth (say 15mbs), as the customer you have paid your ISP to get data at that speed. The Internet Service Provider has paid their own ISP a lot more money so they can support millions of customers at 15mbs. So they are paying more for service.
Now Non-NN want to charge the Service Provider for service to the customer that they are already paying for. It is in essence double dipping.
300,000 seems like a small number, if you stop and consider how many sub amateurs setup web servers. You were told that Linux is very secure and you don't have to worry about hacks and viruses. You installed your favorite distribution, and got what ever web stuff you wanted and then you left the server running ranking up Uptime and not touching the server ever again. Heck I am willing to bet for some of these systems the Hard Drive failed years ago, and they are running off of ram alone. Web Page still works, everything is A-OK.
In my decades of experience I do not ever remember a case where the CPU is the cause of failure to the system.
Hard Drive failures, GPU, Modem, Network Card, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Power Supply. But the CPU seems to always keep kicking, Granted I had the CPU fan die, but I tend to replace that rather quickly after failure.
But I also don't do stupid things like over clocking
The problem with such a tax. Is that the people who can use less fuel are the same ones with the money to pay the tax. The people who don't have a lot of money unfortunately have the old gas guzzlers who will need to pay more for gas. The ones who can afford hybrid or electric cars have more money to avoid the tax.
We do need infrastructure. However we need a more modern definition on what we need for an infrastructure. Otherwise the money will go to doing the cheap fix to the roads and bridges.
I don't think it will sell to well. The Kindle Fire had the advantage that it was cheap... This isn't really that cheap. Apple iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy looks sharp. This just looks like generic Smart phone.
The feature that is has is cool for a few seconds then you get sick of them.
If it is static, it probably doesn't cost that much for them to run it. Just shove it in a tiny corner of your web space, pay for the domain name every few years. Perhaps someone will buy it from them.
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Normally poor quality isn't from the product designer, but some guy in middle management who want his bonus ships the product out before all the issues has been worked out. Then after he ships it out, factoring that they can fix the problems later on, then decides to move all the workforce onto an other project.
What is the value of freedom.
How many human lives are worth freedoms. That is the biggest question. If you want to be very safe, we need to live and work in a controlled environment with little to no freedoms.
If it were a Microsoft Issue, this would be so a bug and not a feature.
Linux/Unix are an old design of an OS. There are some designs in its main way of doing things that do not work in today's much more secure environment.
Things have been upgraded Telnet replaced with SSH, hacks on FTP to make it more secure. But the underpinning is still there. Back in the day where computers needed to do things.
We all love to be part of a social clique that will make you seem better then the rest of the world.
Mensa is one of those groups that requires a high IQ score.
Having a high IQ doesn't mean you are a good person or a desirable member of society. Just that you are good at tests meant to measure your IQ.
The IQ test is better at finding people who have mental retardation who may need additional assistance.
Well companies can do much more to improve on that front though.
1. Architect the product, not just build it. All too often the focus is on meeting business objectives and security is added later. An product that was well thought-out and designed handles security as part of the core design as well as the business objectives.
2. No Back door, design the program so the programmers can't get in without having rights to do so. The password DB should be only managed by the computer and humans shouldn't be able to figure it out.
3. Infrastructure planning. The Website shouldn't also be the Database server. The Database should only allow access from select sources, and give permissions that are appropriate to the user.
4. Plan for failure. Figure if someone breaks into the system find way to minimize the impact. Make sure the Salt for your hashes are hard to find, etc...
Right now at the Gas Pump we have 87, 89 and 91 gas.
Having this change to Gas, Charging, and Hydrogen would be a welcome sign.
The problem we have with our energy policies is that we are trying to find a sliver bullet. This isn't the case anymore, we will need to have a more diverse set of engines that run on different methods. This will allow for greater competition in the energy market and keep price per performance uniform.
For the most part these paid bonuses are not as much cheats but shortcuts from hours of grinding.
The cheat codes of old, had things like God Mode where you just won't dye, so you can go on and fight the bad guy boss bare handed if you want to. Or just automatically give you the ultimate weapon, or boost your stats to the max.
Now the paid stuff is usually gust giving you extra game cash to buy equipment where otherwise you will need to play the game for days to earn it.
Now also in the old days, most "free" games were shareware. Often you had a few levels then you needed to buy the game. Today you get the full game however you either are asked the pay for game upgrades, or sift threw adds. You are still paying for the game one way or another. Unless you were happy with just playing the first few levels.
The most amazing thing about the universe is the smaller something gets the more complex it is. Which is at odds to our general world view, where larger things are more complex then smaller things.
Just the fact the odds that we are hear thinking about it is such amazingly low probability Infinity/finite is practically 0% chance that we exist.
That is the reason for American Strength.
WWII Ended.
The US was one of the few major countries not ravaged by wars.
Having a monopoly on nuclear weapons, we were not in threat of retaliation for an other war.
The Men came back and with the GI bill many of them went to college.
After dealing with the Great Depression and WWII the population was starving to take advantage of the modern age, Cars, Radio, TV, a Home of their own.
As part of the great depression a lot of public works projects and infrastructure paid off. As well with the war effort manufacturing became optimized.
So we had all this stuff while the rest of the world is trying to rebuild. So the 1950's and 1960's was America's golden age. By the Mid 60's the rest of the world has been rebuilt and are in the process of getting back on track.
American dominance is less about how much better people we are, but more about being lucky enough to get a head start after WWII
The problem is while the money is going back to the US. It isn't a 1 for 1 improvement in American jobs.
American Companies are efficient, they are getting damn too efficient for the average working Joe.
Automation, electronic quality checks in the like. Means a a factory 30 years ago needed 500 people to keep up with demand needs about 50 people to today. Most of these 50 people are paid more, however there will be some at minimum wage too.
Well if you were to mine for gold, vs bit coins what is the difference.
Gold is just a piece of medal, while has some nice properties to it, its value is that it is a rare element. Bit Coins are from a unique hash combination which are rare to generate and is getting harder and harder to find. It is just the same thing.
The issue is mining isn't free, it takes labor and power to crunch the data, so if they told people with you 100,000 USD investment I can get you 200 bit-coins valued at 120,000 USD. However what they ended up doing is with that 100,000 USD investment the return say equates to 100,100 USD. So the investors are suing as they were expecting a 20% margin while they are getting a 0.1% margin and they could have put their money in something better.
Yes I pay for my Band Width.
I also pay taxes to support my roads, but if I ship out a product I need to pay the delivery company to ship the product. If I buy a product I either pay the shipping costs or it is included in the price. The shipping company and the retailer also pays for the roads and infrastructure too.
If someone wants to make a living providing a web site, they have to make money some how to get those silly things like Water, Food, Shelter, Health Care, etc... As well they need to pay for their bandwidth, their servers, power, often additional staff who wants their own Water Food and Shelter... A hobbyist can probably have a decent website running, but they will need an other job to keep it running. But if that website gets popular, and it expands it no longer becomes a hobby and needs additional funding and time to let it grow.
There's no way Amazon.com is going to walk away from $125,000 in free money when they have absolutely no risk.
No Risks except from legal action, possibly a class action suite. Distrust in the service and decline of its brand name. Lack of repeat customers and new projects being posted as they are afraid they will be considered a scam project as well.
I will not blame Perl or Slashdot. But MySQL and MicrosoftSQL 2000+
Late 1990s most programs were off a lot of file I/O. Writting to a file and reading from it. But full fledge Database systems were Expensive and took a lot of resources. So Perl with its Regular Ecpressions made it a great tool for handling these files.
MySQL and Microsoft started to push high quality, affordable and runs well on low end systems database software. Allowing for Languages with better DB integration without the RegEx ugliness so PHP and .NET took over perls web space.
I only use AdBlock when the advertising gets abusive.
Music, live video, full screen popups. For the normal stuff I let it pass. I am going to the web site for some content I want to get, and maintaining a website isn't free. As well I don't want to pay to view the site, so I will take most adds as a fair trade.
Because of the "tight clausterphobic environments" it is a good idea to keep noise down, as too much noise will anger people who are trying to sleep or focus on their work.
Being in an area without much room, there isn't places for too much enjoyment so they should be kept busy while they are awake as to prevent boredom, which could lead to noise and people getting on others nerves.
Finally a strict chain of command is needed in such of an environment as to keep everything running, and prevent too much trouble.
The Claustrophobic environment is the problem. The rest is an attempt to reduce the other problems that comes from it.
Micros Systems and and Sun Microsystems. If you don't want to get eaten by oracle as it tries to consolidate as people are not longer buying Oracle DB (Too expensive). You better make sure your name isn't like micro systems
The reason why companies can offer such large sizes for free is because most people will not come close. They probably looked at the statics and saw each user was using an average of 3gigs and not even using the 20gigs. However other companies are advertising more, so they just reconfigured the quota system to 1TB and they are competitive again. No major upgrade to their systems, just changing a few bits around.
The issue that I see with Network Neutrality is this.
You pay for bandwidth (say 15mbs), as the customer you have paid your ISP to get data at that speed.
The Internet Service Provider has paid their own ISP a lot more money so they can support millions of customers at 15mbs. So they are paying more for service.
Now Non-NN want to charge the Service Provider for service to the customer that they are already paying for. It is in essence double dipping.
300,000 seems like a small number, if you stop and consider how many sub amateurs setup web servers.
You were told that Linux is very secure and you don't have to worry about hacks and viruses. You installed your favorite distribution, and got what ever web stuff you wanted and then you left the server running ranking up Uptime and not touching the server ever again. Heck I am willing to bet for some of these systems the Hard Drive failed years ago, and they are running off of ram alone.
Web Page still works, everything is A-OK.
Quite! Nuckler Energy is BAD OK.
In my decades of experience I do not ever remember a case where the CPU is the cause of failure to the system.
Hard Drive failures, GPU, Modem, Network Card, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Power Supply. But the CPU seems to always keep kicking, Granted I had the CPU fan die, but I tend to replace that rather quickly after failure.
But I also don't do stupid things like over clocking
The problem with such a tax. Is that the people who can use less fuel are the same ones with the money to pay the tax.
The people who don't have a lot of money unfortunately have the old gas guzzlers who will need to pay more for gas. The ones who can afford hybrid or electric cars have more money to avoid the tax.
We do need infrastructure. However we need a more modern definition on what we need for an infrastructure. Otherwise the money will go to doing the cheap fix to the roads and bridges.
I don't think it will sell to well. The Kindle Fire had the advantage that it was cheap... This isn't really that cheap.
Apple iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy looks sharp. This just looks like generic Smart phone.
The feature that is has is cool for a few seconds then you get sick of them.
If it is static, it probably doesn't cost that much for them to run it. Just shove it in a tiny corner of your web space, pay for the domain name every few years. Perhaps someone will buy it from them.