These are places were your food is grown. Despite looking like a painting from the 1800's With fields of produce, and livestock. Modern farms are actually often more High Tech then most Silicon Valley offices. With Robots, Self Driving Vehicles, Big Data analytics, real time market access.... Much of this all done over the farmers phone, when he is taking a 5 minute break from shoving crap. Affordable High Speed Internet is key for rural areas.
Having languages to choose from is a good thing. Saying Julia is the perfect language may be pushing it, because it may be the perfect Language for MIT, and research and education. It may not be a good language for businesses who may want more CRUD applications, and/or Heavy Database work and reporting. Julia seems to trying to compramise on the fight within MIT whose better. C++,Python, R and Ruby (Currently the most popular languages Outside of Java* ). They basicly took the key strengths of the different languages and combined it into one. However... Python, R and Ruby while slower then C++ are interpreded lanaguges which has its own benefit, of working better across platforms, and not needing to recompile code, and having your source magically go away from you, with the executable running for years afraid to upgrade.
Well more to the question, What is the university using the supercomputer for? Is it just 60 million dollar bragging rights, or did they get some grants for research project(s) that can cover the cost that could have effects to make it worth the cost?
Using a Supercomputer for a Shared system is general a waste of money, and you are better off with just a server farm, or (gasp) a cloud service (which is a server farm hosted remotely). However if there is a project that really is utilizing the full computer then a Super Computer is needed.
You can be safe, but you need to always be vigilant. However unless you have full understanding of every part of technology that is running, there is a risk. Did you review every line of code in Firefox?
It does sound like it, but I have made my career taking over other peoples work. While I see a lot of things that I think I could do better, I can see the logic behind the approach especially with the time such product was made.
However I also have been able to meet the people with the code I am taking over, They seem to fall in categories. "Not my job, but it needed to be done": This is code from someone who didn't want to make an application, but just kinda grew out of hand. Oddly enough besides some infrastructure problems the code is rather clean and logical. "Arrogant Rookie": The guy who thinks he is all that, however while trying to make impressive stuff, really fails on understanding. This is usually the toughest code to figure out, because the easy way to solve problems seem to be consciously ignored. "General Pro": They are a professional, their code tries to make sense, and the code it normally easy to follow. Sometimes they have some bad days, but in general easy to follow and fix. "Rockstar Developer": The code is actually kinda OK, however perfection often makes their code dense at time, and difficult to maintain, until I can figure what is going
The biggest threat is the anti-intelectualism movement. There is a growing population who just doesn't trust the experts. Either because their finding conflict with their belief structure (such as Evolution vs Creationism), or will find that it demands changes to their lives (Global Warming), or from people realizing what they learned in 8th grade science isn't actually fully true. Conspiracy theories are now trying to discredit almost all science. Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Hoax. Expert in fields are being ignored for bar room half drunk talking points... The internet seems to be spreading this movement by repeating and making these points more complex filling with half hearted examples to fill their minds with doubt.
Now the intellectuals are not innocent either, they will often have opinion in fields that they are not experts in. Like this Jellomizer guy who keeps on posting on Slashdot in areas that he hasn't any experience in, but is relying on summaries of expert opinions and not being able to really defend such viewpoints.
I think "support" is the key problem. Developing a product for Linux is easy, the excuses given were lame. The real problem is Supporting the product. Linux is difficult to support at Level 1 and Level 2 support, which is just the support people reading the scripts, then watching the person follow the items on the script. Ubuntu and Mint technically are nearly identical. However the UI is a bit different. So the script needs to be a little different for each one. Level 1 and 2 support has nearly 0 brains and flexibility. So Linux calls will need to automaticly go to the expensive level 3 and up. Where people with brains need to make a decision based on different UI to get to where they need to go.
That is my thought. It was just FUD way to explain they just don't want to do it. Other then saying all these "technical" difficulties. They should just state that it is difficult to support Linux, because it is hard to train Level 1 India support to navigate a non-standardized UI.
I rarely every have file locking problem in Linux systems. Unlike windows Linux was designed to Mimic Unix principals and Unix systems were designed to be multi-user environments. Having multiple Apps accessing the same file is rarely an issue. Especially with one app which job is to write and the other one whose job is to read.
This type of design is what I find is what developers make when they are at the "Arrogant Rookie" level of their career. Where if there was a book on the technology, The skills used are from chapter 1 and the last chapter. They are trying to show off how good they are by not doing things the easy way. I had once had to maintain an application because the developer who decided to access a database not via the SQL commands that it supported, but by directly accessing the DLLs and doing the direct calls to the database engine. Yes it was faster, but this product was so tightly tied to the Database system that it was nearly impossible to upgrade the database engine, and were at the direct wims of the Database Company, if they charged more then we had to pay more, or do a near full rewrite of the application. As well if there was a bug in the code, then the entire data would get messed up because of the low level access. As well it skipped steps to make the data SQL compatible so it required either a hex editor or custom programming for any ad-hoc report, or odd data fix.
Normally if a company or a product seems to be very strictly worried about low level differences, chances are it was coded by an Amateur who thinks himself all that. And is a sure sign to avoid such product on all environments.
This seems to be a higher up with no idea on the technology coming up with some sort of excuse to not support Linux.
Do they spend the time developing support for ext4, btrfs, Ubuntu, Fedora, GNOME, Mate, KDE, systemd? For most applications even rather complex ones The file system is rather transparent, Unless you are really wanting to focus on some unique feature of the File System, say restore to a previous file version, but still for most cases these extra features and tools are reserved as part of the OS Distribution core set of tools.
Systemd? Again unless you are really doing something specific no one really cares about systemd, they just like to troll about it, because it was different. But I haven't seen a major releases of code to support systemd.
The Desktop environment is probably the biggest difference however most distributions you can add the libraries to support both you can run that KDE app in Gnome and vice versa. The biggest issue is the App just won't fit the theme of your desktop. For the likes of Adobe or other commercial products, they like to make their own theme for their applications even if it doesn't fit the standards.
Dropbox just doesn't want to support Linux, so they are pulling excuses out of their ass, to try to say it as nicely as they can. We really want to, but it is impossible.
The problem with employment is there isn't a really good mapping of Years of Education vs Years of experience vs Military experience and rank. And to get this mapping out to most businesses who are hiring.
While I agree that Google shouldn't censor search engines results. However the reality of the situation is, if Google doesn't it just will not be available in China at all. So the population will not have it at all. They will be better with some of the information vs none. Especially, as some information can populate and get into peoples thoughts and minds faster then a government can deem it censored.
Also China equivalent is a white listed search engine vs a black listed engine, so information will populate faster then what can be approved.
However as I see it. George W Bush won over Gore a lot of the fact that there was a Lot of Drama with the Clinton Administration, and Gore was too closely tied to Clinton. There is still a lot of Clinton Hate with Hillary, basically still tied with Bill Clinton's drama, which caused enough people to vote against Clinton in protest.
We didn't know at the time what type of president Trump would actually be. Most of us thought, he would at least try to take the job seriously, and have common sense take over the political stump items.
What about George W Bush in the middle of that? or George H Bush before Ronald Regan Jimmy Carter Harold Ford Richard Nixon
The president being an elected official, will take opportunity to be in the spotlight, but that is different from being a Reality Star. Obama had star status, I bet he loved it too, but he kept it under control and used it to actually lower the drama, with self deprecating humor.
Presidents have been unofficial entertainers from the TV era onward. But it wasn't a daily dose of scandal and scorn.
Well you are free to live in your closed little world, without trying to experience what else is out there.
Classical Music doesn't get rid of the riff-raff, it is a statement of saying that we do not want kids here, or we prefer that particular type of ambiance.
The kid who is going to cause trouble isn't going to be stopped or is dissuaded by the music, however this isn't party or high-energy music so the Riff-Raff may not feel compelled to cause trouble.
There is a lot of good music out there, but for the most part we lock ourselves into a particular genres. Normally after enough exposure to a point where we get it, we find that it isn't as bad as we thought. However exposure is the key and the real problem. Video games, or movies, tv shows, etc... Are a good way to create exposure. Because you will not normally make yourself sit down and Listen to music you don't necessarily like until you learned to like it. If you don't like Rap, you are not going to listen to it for hours until you realize its appeal. or sit you way through an Opera so you can enjoy classical period music.
However you may play a game with the music in the background and you may get to a point where that song from the genres you hated you are actually looking forward to listening too.
The key to good music is repetition, and expectation. There is some out of the ordinary spice added to it, to make it interesting, but it will resolve back to the familiar.
The president will get negative press no matter what. Sometimes it will be partisan, sometimes it is just based on fact. For the news, Pain sells, so the president will be shown for all his mistakes over the successes. We need a responsible adult to realize that, and move forward.
Being President of the United States is the worlds most thankless job.
Most media outlets are rather centrist. However we have a President treating the presidency like a Reality TV Show, and not government. So every time he has a temper tantrum, or trolls on twitter, the Media needs to call him out on this for clarification. However he doesn't want to answer the tough questions. So it leads his intentions up to interpretations.
While I am all for an open government, A presidents internal monologue shouldn't be broadcasted. Because it distracts from the issues at hand, and less on substance we are focusing on intent.
Trump is doing it to himself. Sure some site may be left leaning, however even most left leaning site will not go out of the way to to hinder the president unless they feel what he is doing is that wrong.
Linux is currently installed in over 3 billion smartphones The Linux Kernel (or parts of it) Android is a different OS then what we call Linux or GNU/Linux which we use for our normal distributions. Over 80% of the servers worldwide are build on Linux This number seemed to be pulled out of you butt, even if accurate it could be interpreted differently. Being that VMWare and many virtual environments may be Linux at its core, they can be running dozens of Windows servers. Linux is installed in hundreds of millions home appliances like SmartTVs Which no one really uses, refrigerators etc. YEA a 64bit OS with security and processing powerer unheard of a couple decades ago, to be almost as good as a duel metal coil with a ball of mercury embedded in a glass bottle, with contact wires.
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These are places were your food is grown.
Despite looking like a painting from the 1800's With fields of produce, and livestock. Modern farms are actually often more High Tech then most Silicon Valley offices. With Robots, Self Driving Vehicles, Big Data analytics, real time market access.... Much of this all done over the farmers phone, when he is taking a 5 minute break from shoving crap.
Affordable High Speed Internet is key for rural areas.
Having languages to choose from is a good thing. Saying Julia is the perfect language may be pushing it, because it may be the perfect Language for MIT, and research and education. It may not be a good language for businesses who may want more CRUD applications, and/or Heavy Database work and reporting.
Julia seems to trying to compramise on the fight within MIT whose better. C++,Python, R and Ruby (Currently the most popular languages Outside of Java* ). They basicly took the key strengths of the different languages and combined it into one. However... Python, R and Ruby while slower then C++ are interpreded lanaguges which has its own benefit, of working better across platforms, and not needing to recompile code, and having your source magically go away from you, with the executable running for years afraid to upgrade.
Well more to the question, What is the university using the supercomputer for? Is it just 60 million dollar bragging rights, or did they get some grants for research project(s) that can cover the cost that could have effects to make it worth the cost?
Using a Supercomputer for a Shared system is general a waste of money, and you are better off with just a server farm, or (gasp) a cloud service (which is a server farm hosted remotely). However if there is a project that really is utilizing the full computer then a Super Computer is needed.
You can be safe, but you need to always be vigilant. However unless you have full understanding of every part of technology that is running, there is a risk. Did you review every line of code in Firefox?
It does sound like it, but I have made my career taking over other peoples work. While I see a lot of things that I think I could do better, I can see the logic behind the approach especially with the time such product was made.
However I also have been able to meet the people with the code I am taking over, They seem to fall in categories.
"Not my job, but it needed to be done": This is code from someone who didn't want to make an application, but just kinda grew out of hand. Oddly enough besides some infrastructure problems the code is rather clean and logical.
"Arrogant Rookie": The guy who thinks he is all that, however while trying to make impressive stuff, really fails on understanding. This is usually the toughest code to figure out, because the easy way to solve problems seem to be consciously ignored.
"General Pro": They are a professional, their code tries to make sense, and the code it normally easy to follow. Sometimes they have some bad days, but in general easy to follow and fix.
"Rockstar Developer": The code is actually kinda OK, however perfection often makes their code dense at time, and difficult to maintain, until I can figure what is going
The biggest threat is the anti-intelectualism movement.
There is a growing population who just doesn't trust the experts. Either because their finding conflict with their belief structure (such as Evolution vs Creationism), or will find that it demands changes to their lives (Global Warming), or from people realizing what they learned in 8th grade science isn't actually fully true.
Conspiracy theories are now trying to discredit almost all science. Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Hoax. Expert in fields are being ignored for bar room half drunk talking points...
The internet seems to be spreading this movement by repeating and making these points more complex filling with half hearted examples to fill their minds with doubt.
Now the intellectuals are not innocent either, they will often have opinion in fields that they are not experts in. Like this Jellomizer guy who keeps on posting on Slashdot in areas that he hasn't any experience in, but is relying on summaries of expert opinions and not being able to really defend such viewpoints.
Data on my laptop on the other hand hasn't been compromised pretty much ever. That you know about.
You are always one bad URL click, one malicious email, one zero day vulnerability to a compromise. Even if you are using OS X, Linux, even Open BSD.
I think "support" is the key problem. Developing a product for Linux is easy, the excuses given were lame. The real problem is Supporting the product.
Linux is difficult to support at Level 1 and Level 2 support, which is just the support people reading the scripts, then watching the person follow the items on the script. Ubuntu and Mint technically are nearly identical. However the UI is a bit different. So the script needs to be a little different for each one. Level 1 and 2 support has nearly 0 brains and flexibility. So Linux calls will need to automaticly go to the expensive level 3 and up. Where people with brains need to make a decision based on different UI to get to where they need to go.
That is my thought. It was just FUD way to explain they just don't want to do it.
Other then saying all these "technical" difficulties. They should just state that it is difficult to support Linux, because it is hard to train Level 1 India support to navigate a non-standardized UI.
I rarely every have file locking problem in Linux systems. Unlike windows Linux was designed to Mimic Unix principals and Unix systems were designed to be multi-user environments. Having multiple Apps accessing the same file is rarely an issue. Especially with one app which job is to write and the other one whose job is to read.
rsync was a Unix tool. So it was probably designed around the Unix design principals. While Dropbox was a hack design to Windows.
This type of design is what I find is what developers make when they are at the "Arrogant Rookie" level of their career.
Where if there was a book on the technology, The skills used are from chapter 1 and the last chapter.
They are trying to show off how good they are by not doing things the easy way.
I had once had to maintain an application because the developer who decided to access a database not via the SQL commands that it supported, but by directly accessing the DLLs and doing the direct calls to the database engine.
Yes it was faster, but this product was so tightly tied to the Database system that it was nearly impossible to upgrade the database engine, and were at the direct wims of the Database Company, if they charged more then we had to pay more, or do a near full rewrite of the application. As well if there was a bug in the code, then the entire data would get messed up because of the low level access. As well it skipped steps to make the data SQL compatible so it required either a hex editor or custom programming for any ad-hoc report, or odd data fix.
Normally if a company or a product seems to be very strictly worried about low level differences, chances are it was coded by an Amateur who thinks himself all that. And is a sure sign to avoid such product on all environments.
This seems to be a higher up with no idea on the technology coming up with some sort of excuse to not support Linux.
Do they spend the time developing support for ext4, btrfs, Ubuntu, Fedora, GNOME, Mate, KDE, systemd?
For most applications even rather complex ones The file system is rather transparent, Unless you are really wanting to focus on some unique feature of the File System, say restore to a previous file version, but still for most cases these extra features and tools are reserved as part of the OS Distribution core set of tools.
Systemd? Again unless you are really doing something specific no one really cares about systemd, they just like to troll about it, because it was different. But I haven't seen a major releases of code to support systemd.
The Desktop environment is probably the biggest difference however most distributions you can add the libraries to support both you can run that KDE app in Gnome and vice versa. The biggest issue is the App just won't fit the theme of your desktop. For the likes of Adobe or other commercial products, they like to make their own theme for their applications even if it doesn't fit the standards.
Dropbox just doesn't want to support Linux, so they are pulling excuses out of their ass, to try to say it as nicely as they can. We really want to, but it is impossible.
The problem with employment is there isn't a really good mapping of Years of Education vs Years of experience vs Military experience and rank. And to get this mapping out to most businesses who are hiring.
The need to keep the hoax alive.
I AM Kidding of course.
I would love to take a look at the color images.
He was a British inventor.
While I agree that Google shouldn't censor search engines results. However the reality of the situation is, if Google doesn't it just will not be available in China at all.
So the population will not have it at all.
They will be better with some of the information vs none. Especially, as some information can populate and get into peoples thoughts and minds faster then a government can deem it censored.
Also China equivalent is a white listed search engine vs a black listed engine, so information will populate faster then what can be approved.
However as I see it. George W Bush won over Gore a lot of the fact that there was a Lot of Drama with the Clinton Administration, and Gore was too closely tied to Clinton. There is still a lot of Clinton Hate with Hillary, basically still tied with Bill Clinton's drama, which caused enough people to vote against Clinton in protest.
We didn't know at the time what type of president Trump would actually be. Most of us thought, he would at least try to take the job seriously, and have common sense take over the political stump items.
What about George W Bush in the middle of that?
or George H Bush before
Ronald Regan
Jimmy Carter
Harold Ford
Richard Nixon
The president being an elected official, will take opportunity to be in the spotlight, but that is different from being a Reality Star.
Obama had star status, I bet he loved it too, but he kept it under control and used it to actually lower the drama, with self deprecating humor.
Presidents have been unofficial entertainers from the TV era onward. But it wasn't a daily dose of scandal and scorn.
Well you are free to live in your closed little world, without trying to experience what else is out there.
Classical Music doesn't get rid of the riff-raff, it is a statement of saying that we do not want kids here, or we prefer that particular type of ambiance.
The kid who is going to cause trouble isn't going to be stopped or is dissuaded by the music, however this isn't party or high-energy music so the Riff-Raff may not feel compelled to cause trouble.
They did, However the game was a fad that just lasted for a little while.
There is a lot of good music out there, but for the most part we lock ourselves into a particular genres. Normally after enough exposure to a point where we get it, we find that it isn't as bad as we thought. However exposure is the key and the real problem.
Video games, or movies, tv shows, etc...
Are a good way to create exposure. Because you will not normally make yourself sit down and Listen to music you don't necessarily like until you learned to like it.
If you don't like Rap, you are not going to listen to it for hours until you realize its appeal. or sit you way through an Opera so you can enjoy classical period music.
However you may play a game with the music in the background and you may get to a point where that song from the genres you hated you are actually looking forward to listening too.
The key to good music is repetition, and expectation. There is some out of the ordinary spice added to it, to make it interesting, but it will resolve back to the familiar.
The president will get negative press no matter what.
Sometimes it will be partisan, sometimes it is just based on fact.
For the news, Pain sells, so the president will be shown for all his mistakes over the successes.
We need a responsible adult to realize that, and move forward.
Being President of the United States is the worlds most thankless job.
Most media outlets are rather centrist. However we have a President treating the presidency like a Reality TV Show, and not government.
So every time he has a temper tantrum, or trolls on twitter, the Media needs to call him out on this for clarification. However he doesn't want to answer the tough questions. So it leads his intentions up to interpretations.
While I am all for an open government, A presidents internal monologue shouldn't be broadcasted. Because it distracts from the issues at hand, and less on substance we are focusing on intent.
Trump is doing it to himself. Sure some site may be left leaning, however even most left leaning site will not go out of the way to to hinder the president unless they feel what he is doing is that wrong.
Linux is currently installed in over 3 billion smartphones The Linux Kernel (or parts of it) Android is a different OS then what we call Linux or GNU/Linux which we use for our normal distributions.
Over 80% of the servers worldwide are build on Linux This number seemed to be pulled out of you butt, even if accurate it could be interpreted differently. Being that VMWare and many virtual environments may be Linux at its core, they can be running dozens of Windows servers.
Linux is installed in hundreds of millions home appliances like SmartTVs Which no one really uses, refrigerators etc. YEA a 64bit OS with security and processing powerer unheard of a couple decades ago, to be almost as good as a duel metal coil with a ball of mercury embedded in a glass bottle, with contact wires.