I think it may have been more of an issue, being that Cisco branded it, it was under their Cisco Contracts so any basic purchasing manager would see two items right next to each other with a rather large price difference, and they will go with the cheap one. A lot of businesses don't have a good IT staff, or their staff has nothing to do with purchasing decisions. They may say they need a Gigabit router, however when it goes to purchasing they will see the $1000.00 Cisco and the $150.00 LinkSys both a gigabit router. Thus they will make the decision. Not having LinkSys by Cisco is probably a good thing, because it will be easier to say the $1000.00 is actually a lot better than our competitor. Vs. trying to say Our Product line is really good and our other one sucks.
It terms of problems in the world, this is a low hanging fruit. Easy to solve, measurable benefits, not much protest against. If we just sat down and focused on the big complicated issues, they will not get done, nor will the other lesser issues.
I hate to use the if you were legit then you wouldn't need a proxy argument. However If he was using email the way most services want you to use it, he wouldn't have a problem.
Email was meant for a Person to send a message to another person or a small group of people, usually with people that you have some connection too.
How much of that money is really going to Public Roads, Schools, and Hospitals... Most of what you mentioned is paid via Town Taxes that is based on the value of your property, not income.
Hospitals are funded for the most part privately outside of direct taxes, with the exception of Medicare and Medicaid, and Random Grants and often Bad Dept protection.
The real question is the effectiveness of the services performed and the amount that you pay for it. Is the amount we put into welfare good in keeping people off the streets and giving them a helping hand to get past some hard times in life, or is it a disincentive for them to change life, because they are getting everything they need without having to work for it? Why isn't there more balanced study and working to try to get the correct balanced where every dollar in taxes that go to welfare will go to more good and less leaching.
I can say the same with schools, I see schools that go over multi-million dollar renovations however those don't actually help the students it just make the place look nicer, spending money on computers just to teach the kids how to use office. That is the problem and why a lot of people don't want to pay taxes, it is because their large portion of their income is not going towards optimal or near optimal usage.
There are legit programs such presenting your screen and you need to show where your mouse is, or even programs that will try to predict your next action ahead of time for faster performance. Or you just really like xeyes.
I admit it is a scary feature however there are actually legit uses for it too.
A lot of this money comes from Grants outside the people the people who makes the "career decisions".
If that were the case there would be a lot of papers complementing such people. "Case Study: Human Resource Done right, example Mr. So and So from x university"
Most of these embedded devices are not multi-purpose, and the kernel patches by now wouldn't be doing much to fix them, by this point, and the attitude is it isn't worth it to upgrade them if they already work fine. The software on these systems more often than not will not even access those Kernel bugs because the system is so specialized, if they did access the buggy kernel, the code would have probably made a workaround for it and upgrading the kernel could actually break the system.
Besides if your device is running a 386 chances are you won't have Linux on it, but MSDOS, mostly because DOS takes a lot less resources and runs the program you need to run and thats it.
Ok I can see when they went from 4:3 to 16:9, it created some issues, as a lot of software had that aspect ratio more or less fixed in. But in an age of screens with different resolutions, and resizable Windows is the new aspect ratio that big of a deal? I don't think so. Most new design is less about pixel location from top left but from the different spots. For the most part information is left aligned, right aligned, or centered. Data elements with more data than most screens can hold are often width at a percentage of the screen, and some mechanism of scrolling is available.
But really after 640x480 most applications GUI were not as pixel perfect as before as to fit in windows of various sizes.
It is a nice feature... However I don't see it too useful for the way I work. Being that if I have a view it is often because it needs to have many tables involved. And I would need to setup an on Insert or on Update rule on the view anyways.
So does this disrupt the Atheists Pink Invisible Unicorn argument.
Where is often used against the argument about God being supernatural thus outside of science, so trying to use Science to disprove God will not work. So they bring up if they believed in an Invisible Pink Unicorn they would be considered crazy, however if a person believes in a God they are just as crazy.
However you have better imbedded options then the 386. There isn't anything stopping you from using an older version of the kernel... Which will probably run a lot better anyways.
It really comes down to a basic problem. We are trying to quantify peoples status in life/figure out if their funding is worth it. This makes sense because we live in a world of scarcity we cannot fully fund every idea. However we come up with measurements to quantify these things. Shortly after once people figure out the measurements will then change their behavior to put the measurements into their favor.
If the measurement for a good scientist is the number of published papers, you are going to see a lot of crappy published papers, because they need to publish crap to get more resources.
Primarily the benefit is that a Full Web Application can be done with one language. For some people switching between languages gets in the way, of writing uniformed code. Also I would expect that it would allow for easier movement from the prototype running in the browser and moved to the server.
Or if you want to be more computer science purist. You can reuse functions and classes on your browser and on the server side. Often in web development you have to write code twice that does the same thing, because the browser will do an initial check, and the server will do the final (more secure) check. That and you will be using similar data structures.
It is better than nothing. While say a "real" tank could probably take some direct hits, this thing could probably survive a barrage of fragments from a nearby explosion, as well against normal bullets. It may not stand up to a real tank, But it would be good against ground troops.
How often do the climate scientists say that? It is usually just some guy off the street. Think of weather as a bell curve, of probability. The seasons average temperatures are in the middle the more extremes are on either end. What global warming has done is shift that bell curve to the hotter direction a bit. We will still get very cold days/seasons and very hot days/seasons but the overall average will be higher. (A few more hot days then cold ones)
The real problem is the people who disagree with global warming, and see the mounting evidence against them, assume that there is some conspiracy, as them making up fake information to push some deeper agenda. Unfortunately my father is one of them and he gave me this long lecture about the evil UN Socialist Agenda 21. So I wasn't too keen on it so I looked it up. After reading it I could see how my father would be frightened of it. Because most of the information is about curving global warming, if you don't think global warming is an issue, then all those suggestions would seem stupid unless there was some grand conspiracy.
While I know of the advantages that Linked libraries give, such as being to update a huge set of programs at once, Allowing us coders to change how programs operate by changing the library source. However in the terms of Distributing software for different distributions it becomes a nightmare for the author. Because they can only really test a small percentage of these distributions, and who know if that unknown distribution uses that library or has the library requires to install it...
Systems like APT do a wonderful job of solving the problem for us. But not all distributions use APT and/or they may have a different set of repositories.
The key advantage of the office phone is that it should be your common protocol inside and outside your organization. I have an office phone and I still use it. Because if I need to call someone outside my organization I know they will support my telephone call. Not hassle with having them get on skype or install another software or sign up to a service.... I just give them a call. Sure you can use Skype or your Cell Phone. But why should you expect to pay to call out.
Next your phone is always on. Software can get easily closed, for the most part your phone is always on.
Finally you usually get a consistently clear signal. Cell phones break in or out, Skype and other services sometime will glitch on you, however if you are using a LAN line you are not the one on the phone who will need to disrupt the meeting and try to call back.
The problem is that there is too much to be concerned about to be safe. Sure most of us on Slashdot are IT Professionals or are at least better than others with computers. But people in other specialties have their own conserns and are baning their head saying people would be so much better if they just did this which is an easy job for me. Eg. Invest into your 401k Eat better food Exercise Daily Don't Speed Don't Drink/Smoke/Use Drugs Get up and get some fresh air...
There are so many things in life that we need to concern ourselves about, for the people who are not that interested in technology wants someone else to look out for them. Microsoft, Apple, Google, your APT repository... They just want something to go and fix the problem without too much hassle.
Unfortunately the App Store which is similar to a locked down APT Repository, offers that safety, here is a spot where I can get stuff and I can trust it. Back in the olden days we could go to a reputable store and buy a box set. However with most apps being offered on the internet these App Stores from trusted sources with rather rigorous testing are giving us more safety than the casual user just downloading a program off the internet.
They don't care about software freedom. They want to use the program and get the results they are not interested in geeky flamewars.
I would agree. If their goal was to setup a colony, and their chances are slim, that would be a different thing. But go there and die. That is just stupid and suicidal thus such people are clearly not qualified for the mission.
Cops if they are doing their job, they would like to have more information. However I hope congress is working for the Americans and realize our justice system was designed to favor the innocent, Law enforcement cannot be an easy or an efficient job, even though they will be able to catch more bad guys and probably save a lot of lives. American Liberty is the greater good over safety.
Beware of the vegans steep hipocrocy. Like most religions or ideologies, they get to the point where they believe if everyone follows my idea then there will be a better world. Once the idea that your idea is the greater good, bad things can happen.
Exactly, these people would succeed with or without college, College would only take time from your life. But these people are the exception not the rule. For success in life most of us are not striving to be the Next Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg, but a good upper middle class income. We do not have a plan to be the richest person in the world, so we need to get educated further to have any advantage over the rest of us people who fall +/- 2 standard deviations of the population.
I know of a lot of people who didn't get their degrees and they are struggling much harder than those who did. Because they are competing for the same jobs of someone with a degree and they don't have one so they will have that against them.
The real problem is there are too many people who get degrees. College needs to be harder, for those who do graduate a college degree must mean they did something difficult. At the same time there needs to be more vocational training for a lot of the jobs out there that currently demand a college degree. They need less people with College Degrees and more vocational, where the people who do get degrees are in a less competitive space for those higher jobs.
What would the incentive to make such a device in a non-capitalistic economy?
I don't think you realize how much cheap stuff we have today in America?
If you look at prices today and that of 60 years ago and adjust of inflation we will see that a lot of the stuff of the past was more expensive then it is today. Heck we have a lot of things that would be excessively expensive back in the day. Our $200 cellphones would have cost millions of dollars for the same power. And they were paying a hefty price for the normal phones which we would be able to get for under $10.00.
It isn't that businesses are making things more expensive it is that we as a culture are demanding more things. Back in the old days for your monthly bills Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone. Today Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone, Internet, Cell Phone, Cable TV, Netflix...
Expected homes of the 1950 would be small 1000sq/ft homes. Once Car for the family, one Telephone and they will only call rarely, For power they would power lights, heat, the refrigerator, washer and dryer, and a TV. All ran on AC power, and most when not in use were turned off.
If we were to live like we did during the 1950's we would have huge amounts of income stored up more then ever, because we would be living extremely modestly.
It isn't that things got more expensive they actually gotten cheaper, we just got more things.
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Unless it is a plot from the LiBeRaLs.
I think it may have been more of an issue, being that Cisco branded it, it was under their Cisco Contracts so any basic purchasing manager would see two items right next to each other with a rather large price difference, and they will go with the cheap one.
A lot of businesses don't have a good IT staff, or their staff has nothing to do with purchasing decisions. They may say they need a Gigabit router, however when it goes to purchasing they will see the $1000.00 Cisco and the $150.00 LinkSys both a gigabit router. Thus they will make the decision. Not having LinkSys by Cisco is probably a good thing, because it will be easier to say the $1000.00 is actually a lot better than our competitor. Vs. trying to say Our Product line is really good and our other one sucks.
How would baking a website stop a bunch of crazed hateful nuts from protesting.
It terms of problems in the world, this is a low hanging fruit. Easy to solve, measurable benefits, not much protest against. If we just sat down and focused on the big complicated issues, they will not get done, nor will the other lesser issues.
I hate to use the if you were legit then you wouldn't need a proxy argument. However If he was using email the way most services want you to use it, he wouldn't have a problem.
Email was meant for a Person to send a message to another person or a small group of people, usually with people that you have some connection too.
How much of that money is really going to Public Roads, Schools, and Hospitals...
Most of what you mentioned is paid via Town Taxes that is based on the value of your property, not income.
Hospitals are funded for the most part privately outside of direct taxes, with the exception of Medicare and Medicaid, and Random Grants and often Bad Dept protection.
The real question is the effectiveness of the services performed and the amount that you pay for it.
Is the amount we put into welfare good in keeping people off the streets and giving them a helping hand to get past some hard times in life, or is it a disincentive for them to change life, because they are getting everything they need without having to work for it? Why isn't there more balanced study and working to try to get the correct balanced where every dollar in taxes that go to welfare will go to more good and less leaching.
I can say the same with schools, I see schools that go over multi-million dollar renovations however those don't actually help the students it just make the place look nicer, spending money on computers just to teach the kids how to use office. That is the problem and why a lot of people don't want to pay taxes, it is because their large portion of their income is not going towards optimal or near optimal usage.
There are legit programs such presenting your screen and you need to show where your mouse is, or even programs that will try to predict your next action ahead of time for faster performance. Or you just really like xeyes.
I admit it is a scary feature however there are actually legit uses for it too.
A lot of this money comes from Grants outside the people the people who makes the "career decisions".
If that were the case there would be a lot of papers complementing such people. "Case Study: Human Resource Done right, example Mr. So and So from x university"
Most of these embedded devices are not multi-purpose, and the kernel patches by now wouldn't be doing much to fix them, by this point, and the attitude is it isn't worth it to upgrade them if they already work fine. The software on these systems more often than not will not even access those Kernel bugs because the system is so specialized, if they did access the buggy kernel, the code would have probably made a workaround for it and upgrading the kernel could actually break the system.
Besides if your device is running a 386 chances are you won't have Linux on it, but MSDOS, mostly because DOS takes a lot less resources and runs the program you need to run and thats it.
Ok I can see when they went from 4:3 to 16:9, it created some issues, as a lot of software had that aspect ratio more or less fixed in. But in an age of screens with different resolutions, and resizable Windows is the new aspect ratio that big of a deal? I don't think so. Most new design is less about pixel location from top left but from the different spots. For the most part information is left aligned, right aligned, or centered. Data elements with more data than most screens can hold are often width at a percentage of the screen, and some mechanism of scrolling is available.
But really after 640x480 most applications GUI were not as pixel perfect as before as to fit in windows of various sizes.
It is a nice feature... However I don't see it too useful for the way I work.
Being that if I have a view it is often because it needs to have many tables involved. And I would need to setup an on Insert or on Update rule on the view anyways.
So does this disrupt the Atheists Pink Invisible Unicorn argument.
Where is often used against the argument about God being supernatural thus outside of science, so trying to use Science to disprove God will not work. So they bring up if they believed in an Invisible Pink Unicorn they would be considered crazy, however if a person believes in a God they are just as crazy.
However you have better imbedded options then the 386. There isn't anything stopping you from using an older version of the kernel... Which will probably run a lot better anyways.
It really comes down to a basic problem.
We are trying to quantify peoples status in life/figure out if their funding is worth it. This makes sense because we live in a world of scarcity we cannot fully fund every idea.
However we come up with measurements to quantify these things. Shortly after once people figure out the measurements will then change their behavior to put the measurements into their favor.
If the measurement for a good scientist is the number of published papers, you are going to see a lot of crappy published papers, because they need to publish crap to get more resources.
Primarily the benefit is that a Full Web Application can be done with one language.
For some people switching between languages gets in the way, of writing uniformed code.
Also I would expect that it would allow for easier movement from the prototype running in the browser and moved to the server.
Or if you want to be more computer science purist. You can reuse functions and classes on your browser and on the server side. Often in web development you have to write code twice that does the same thing, because the browser will do an initial check, and the server will do the final (more secure) check. That and you will be using similar data structures.
It is better than nothing.
While say a "real" tank could probably take some direct hits, this thing could probably survive a barrage of fragments from a nearby explosion, as well against normal bullets. It may not stand up to a real tank, But it would be good against ground troops.
How often do the climate scientists say that? It is usually just some guy off the street. Think of weather as a bell curve, of probability. The seasons average temperatures are in the middle the more extremes are on either end. What global warming has done is shift that bell curve to the hotter direction a bit. We will still get very cold days/seasons and very hot days/seasons but the overall average will be higher. (A few more hot days then cold ones)
The real problem is the people who disagree with global warming, and see the mounting evidence against them, assume that there is some conspiracy, as them making up fake information to push some deeper agenda. Unfortunately my father is one of them and he gave me this long lecture about the evil UN Socialist Agenda 21. So I wasn't too keen on it so I looked it up. After reading it I could see how my father would be frightened of it. Because most of the information is about curving global warming, if you don't think global warming is an issue, then all those suggestions would seem stupid unless there was some grand conspiracy.
While I know of the advantages that Linked libraries give, such as being to update a huge set of programs at once, Allowing us coders to change how programs operate by changing the library source. However in the terms of Distributing software for different distributions it becomes a nightmare for the author. Because they can only really test a small percentage of these distributions, and who know if that unknown distribution uses that library or has the library requires to install it...
Systems like APT do a wonderful job of solving the problem for us. But not all distributions use APT and/or they may have a different set of repositories.
The key advantage of the office phone is that it should be your common protocol inside and outside your organization.
I have an office phone and I still use it. Because if I need to call someone outside my organization I know they will support my telephone call. Not hassle with having them get on skype or install another software or sign up to a service.... I just give them a call. Sure you can use Skype or your Cell Phone. But why should you expect to pay to call out.
Next your phone is always on. Software can get easily closed, for the most part your phone is always on.
Finally you usually get a consistently clear signal. Cell phones break in or out, Skype and other services sometime will glitch on you, however if you are using a LAN line you are not the one on the phone who will need to disrupt the meeting and try to call back.
The problem is that there is too much to be concerned about to be safe. Sure most of us on Slashdot are IT Professionals or are at least better than others with computers. But people in other specialties have their own conserns and are baning their head saying people would be so much better if they just did this which is an easy job for me.
Eg.
Invest into your 401k
Eat better food
Exercise Daily
Don't Speed
Don't Drink/Smoke/Use Drugs
Get up and get some fresh air...
There are so many things in life that we need to concern ourselves about, for the people who are not that interested in technology wants someone else to look out for them. Microsoft, Apple, Google, your APT repository... They just want something to go and fix the problem without too much hassle.
Unfortunately the App Store which is similar to a locked down APT Repository, offers that safety, here is a spot where I can get stuff and I can trust it. Back in the olden days we could go to a reputable store and buy a box set. However with most apps being offered on the internet these App Stores from trusted sources with rather rigorous testing are giving us more safety than the casual user just downloading a program off the internet.
They don't care about software freedom. They want to use the program and get the results they are not interested in geeky flamewars.
I would agree. If their goal was to setup a colony, and their chances are slim, that would be a different thing. But go there and die. That is just stupid and suicidal thus such people are clearly not qualified for the mission.
Cops if they are doing their job, they would like to have more information. However I hope congress is working for the Americans and realize our justice system was designed to favor the innocent, Law enforcement cannot be an easy or an efficient job, even though they will be able to catch more bad guys and probably save a lot of lives. American Liberty is the greater good over safety.
Beware of the vegans steep hipocrocy. Like most religions or ideologies, they get to the point where they believe if everyone follows my idea then there will be a better world. Once the idea that your idea is the greater good, bad things can happen.
Exactly, these people would succeed with or without college, College would only take time from your life.
But these people are the exception not the rule. For success in life most of us are not striving to be the Next Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg, but a good upper middle class income. We do not have a plan to be the richest person in the world, so we need to get educated further to have any advantage over the rest of us people who fall +/- 2 standard deviations of the population.
I know of a lot of people who didn't get their degrees and they are struggling much harder than those who did. Because they are competing for the same jobs of someone with a degree and they don't have one so they will have that against them.
The real problem is there are too many people who get degrees. College needs to be harder, for those who do graduate a college degree must mean they did something difficult. At the same time there needs to be more vocational training for a lot of the jobs out there that currently demand a college degree. They need less people with College Degrees and more vocational, where the people who do get degrees are in a less competitive space for those higher jobs.
What would the incentive to make such a device in a non-capitalistic economy?
I don't think you realize how much cheap stuff we have today in America?
If you look at prices today and that of 60 years ago and adjust of inflation we will see that a lot of the stuff of the past was more expensive then it is today. Heck we have a lot of things that would be excessively expensive back in the day. Our $200 cellphones would have cost millions of dollars for the same power. And they were paying a hefty price for the normal phones which we would be able to get for under $10.00.
It isn't that businesses are making things more expensive it is that we as a culture are demanding more things.
Back in the old days for your monthly bills
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone.
Today
Mortgage, Car, Power, Telephone, Internet, Cell Phone, Cable TV, Netflix...
Expected homes of the 1950 would be small 1000sq/ft homes. Once Car for the family, one Telephone and they will only call rarely,
For power they would power lights, heat, the refrigerator, washer and dryer, and a TV. All ran on AC power, and most when not in use were turned off.
If we were to live like we did during the 1950's we would have huge amounts of income stored up more then ever, because we would be living extremely modestly.
It isn't that things got more expensive they actually gotten cheaper, we just got more things.