Really? Debian supports x86 (32 and 64), various arm, mips, etc AND s390 among others. In other words, a much LARGER variety of hardware than Windows. The cherry on top is that it's a volunteer effort.
I hadn't heard of the big problems w/ Apple. So scratch them off the list.
That leaves the various Linux and *BSDs as managing to not cause mass crashing. Note I don't claim they're perfect, since nothing is. I just claim they do much better at it.
That's because it broke through normal wear and tear. If someone from Ford came out to your house one night and swapped parts and as a result your formerly running car wouldn't start in the morning, you would certainly be entitled to compensation for your time and trouble as well as a fix fro your car.
I see sour grapes because I clearly stated that it is the design of USB on my post of 2014-08-13 20:39 where I said:
I disagree with you, therefor it must be sour grapes? Do you have a problem scraping your ears when you enter the room?
Perhaps you should see logic instead. I have seen a connector built to the actual spec that shows none of the flaws you call out. Therefore, it is possible to build a USB connector to spec that isn't fragile and problematic. The corollary is that if your connectors aren't performing as well as the well constructed connector, it would be shoddy construction rather than a design problem.
I have no doubt that you have a closet full of devices with shoddy broken connectors made by the lowest bidder and value engineered to death.
I wouldn't mind at all if the USB committee clamped down and threatened to use the trademarks as a bludgeon to kill off the worst offenders.
The primary strength of the Apple connector is that they control who is allowed to make one.
WTF is 10Base-2 doing there? I haven't seen that since the mid-90's. Meanwhile, every PC that I've seen in the last 10 years has had built-in gigabit Ethernet.
Right, within a decade, the '90s to be specific, all of those network technologies were in use at some point.
Just like stores banned negros because their 'careful informal studies' (read prejudice) told them negros were more likely to steal.
I notice that when stores were forced to de-segregate they had enough sense to not invite their new customers to walk out with the cash box 'just to be sure they weren't fined'
Of course, since they firmly believed those loans were likely to end in a default, why did they bundle them up and sell them as AAA financial instruments?
Of course it didn't go away, but it did get a lot easier to maintain.
I remember very well back in the bad old days, that white knuckle time between telling the remote server to reboot with a new kernel and ping starting again. And of course, the advance setup where you make the old kernel the default in hopes that if it all goes sideways you can call and find someone on-site who can manage to find and press reset should it hang or have some random problem that keeps it off the net.
Then came nicer setups where you had a serial console through a Portmaster (portmonster, portmasher) and perhaps even a power strip controllable through another machine's serial port. Much better as long as the machine's BIOS wasn't too buggy and didn't 'forget' that it was supposed to use the serial port.
Then came IPMI but the odds were 50/50 that the BMC crashed when you really needed it.
Finally, we have half-decent IPMI support for the physical server and the virtualization provides excellent remote management for the VMs.
That and one decent server has more power than a full rack used to.
It's more like whichever team is in the lead gets to set the ground rules any way they like and the penalty for leaving the game is death. Inevitably, whatever team gets the first run by skill or dumb luck will win the game.
Note that it doesn't matter if the game starts with any ground rules at all or even if the only rule is that there are no rules, it will devolve the same way every time.
It's also paywalled, making rendering all but a bare assertion invisible to me.
Natural questions which I might have read the answers to include "Is the lack of egalitarianism at all a benefit or did they get suckered into a hierarchy first for its benefits and then have it devolve?".
The conditions on the implicit threats would have easily been met by complying with the law and making more loans on STARTER HOMES to people who they might otherwise redline.
The design is fine, the construction is shoddy. If Apple donated all the patents to the public domain and let anyone/everyone make and use Lightning connectors they would be just as bad or worse due to cheap knock-offs.
I have seen really well made mini and micro USB connectors and I have seen really crappy ones.
The good ones have a tight tolerance and the center post ever so slightly recessed from the plane of the ground/shield opening. The plug is slightly beveled inwward towards the center tab. By the time the plug contacts the center post, it is held straight by the shield. The slightly trapezoidal shape of the connector assures that you can't even touch the center post if you try to plug it in upside down.
The crappy ones have the center post flush with or even protruding slightly from the over-large opening of the socket such that upside down insertion is blocked by the center post. That is why they break even with normal use by mere mortals.
Forcing companies to provide mortgages to people who are patently unqualified is an example of unreasonable regulations that resulted in untold devastation to the economy.
Nobody EVER did that. They were required to be a bit more flexible in determining qualifications for loans on starter homes (that is, small mortgages) and to stop blatantly racist redlining. Instead, they began actively talking people into huge loans with built in time bombs for McMansions (that is, huge mortgages). Then they invented a variety of wildly complex new financial instruments based on those crazy loans deliberately (and fraudulently) mis-represented as AAA investments.
In other words, the banks are damned dirty crooks. Full stop.
If the surrounding connector is designed with proper tolerance it is nearly impossible to break the center post even on the micro connectors. Alas, crappy construction means excessively loose tolerance and so the center post gets stressed.
Really, I think the problem with the micro connector is crappy construction rather than a design flaw. The one on my phone has endured years of use (several thousand insertions) and still fits firmly enough to be able to suspend the phone by the USB cable. If made well, it can be durable.
GPL isn't the relevant part of the nightmare though. It is no less harmful if B takes per-instance proprietary library D and links it to A. You are now potentially on the hook for more than each copy of A was sold for.
I would consider U-Verse in spite of the lower speed except that seems to be just trading one evil lizard for another. That and I see the UVerse truck at my across the street neighbor's house every other week, often several days in a row.
They don't say "We may record this call for quality assurance", they say "This cal may be recorded for quality assurance purposes". nd as in TFA, the recording certainly did assure the quality of the service for the customer.
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The devices may be high end, but they seem to have bought USB connectors from the lowest vendor in China.
OTOH, I have had exactly 1 USB connector break EVER and it was clearly a low end POS.
You need a new dictionary. I said that Thunderbolt's construction is more rigorously controlled.
There seems to be a new limited problem every month.
Really? Debian supports x86 (32 and 64), various arm, mips, etc AND s390 among others. In other words, a much LARGER variety of hardware than Windows. The cherry on top is that it's a volunteer effort.
I hadn't heard of the big problems w/ Apple. So scratch them off the list.
That leaves the various Linux and *BSDs as managing to not cause mass crashing. Note I don't claim they're perfect, since nothing is. I just claim they do much better at it.
If it doesn't work right because of something MS did and they then leave him to fix it, why not?
I'm pretty sure MS insists on being paid for each and every install of Windows.
Since you were perfectly free to not reply at all, you're an unpaid volunteer.
That's because it broke through normal wear and tear. If someone from Ford came out to your house one night and swapped parts and as a result your formerly running car wouldn't start in the morning, you would certainly be entitled to compensation for your time and trouble as well as a fix fro your car.
On the other hand, Apple, Debian and Redhat manage to release timely security patches that don't cause crashing en-masse.
I see sour grapes because I clearly stated that it is the design of USB on my post of 2014-08-13 20:39 where I said:
I disagree with you, therefor it must be sour grapes? Do you have a problem scraping your ears when you enter the room?
Perhaps you should see logic instead. I have seen a connector built to the actual spec that shows none of the flaws you call out. Therefore, it is possible to build a USB connector to spec that isn't fragile and problematic. The corollary is that if your connectors aren't performing as well as the well constructed connector, it would be shoddy construction rather than a design problem.
I have no doubt that you have a closet full of devices with shoddy broken connectors made by the lowest bidder and value engineered to death.
I wouldn't mind at all if the USB committee clamped down and threatened to use the trademarks as a bludgeon to kill off the worst offenders.
The primary strength of the Apple connector is that they control who is allowed to make one.
WTF is 10Base-2 doing there? I haven't seen that since the mid-90's. Meanwhile, every PC that I've seen in the last 10 years has had built-in gigabit Ethernet.
Right, within a decade, the '90s to be specific, all of those network technologies were in use at some point.
Where do you see sour grapes? I am basing this on my own experiences with actual devices. It's my analysis, not the committee's.
Just like stores banned negros because their 'careful informal studies' (read prejudice) told them negros were more likely to steal.
I notice that when stores were forced to de-segregate they had enough sense to not invite their new customers to walk out with the cash box 'just to be sure they weren't fined'
Of course, since they firmly believed those loans were likely to end in a default, why did they bundle them up and sell them as AAA financial instruments?
If, unlike the current case, there were dozens of studies with data that I could reference instead, I wouldn't be frustrated.
But go ahead, condemn your grandkids to hell so you can make a buck today. Mark your grave well so they'll know where to piss.
Of course it didn't go away, but it did get a lot easier to maintain.
I remember very well back in the bad old days, that white knuckle time between telling the remote server to reboot with a new kernel and ping starting again. And of course, the advance setup where you make the old kernel the default in hopes that if it all goes sideways you can call and find someone on-site who can manage to find and press reset should it hang or have some random problem that keeps it off the net.
Then came nicer setups where you had a serial console through a Portmaster (portmonster, portmasher) and perhaps even a power strip controllable through another machine's serial port. Much better as long as the machine's BIOS wasn't too buggy and didn't 'forget' that it was supposed to use the serial port.
Then came IPMI but the odds were 50/50 that the BMC crashed when you really needed it.
Finally, we have half-decent IPMI support for the physical server and the virtualization provides excellent remote management for the VMs.
That and one decent server has more power than a full rack used to.
It's more like whichever team is in the lead gets to set the ground rules any way they like and the penalty for leaving the game is death. Inevitably, whatever team gets the first run by skill or dumb luck will win the game.
Note that it doesn't matter if the game starts with any ground rules at all or even if the only rule is that there are no rules, it will devolve the same way every time.
It's also paywalled, making rendering all but a bare assertion invisible to me.
Natural questions which I might have read the answers to include "Is the lack of egalitarianism at all a benefit or did they get suckered into a hierarchy first for its benefits and then have it devolve?".
The conditions on the implicit threats would have easily been met by complying with the law and making more loans on STARTER HOMES to people who they might otherwise redline.
Don't fall for the flimsy excuses.
And, of course, the bigger the loan, the more they could sell it for. Turning down loans wasn't profitable at all.
The design is fine, the construction is shoddy. If Apple donated all the patents to the public domain and let anyone/everyone make and use Lightning connectors they would be just as bad or worse due to cheap knock-offs.
I have seen really well made mini and micro USB connectors and I have seen really crappy ones.
The good ones have a tight tolerance and the center post ever so slightly recessed from the plane of the ground/shield opening. The plug is slightly beveled inwward towards the center tab. By the time the plug contacts the center post, it is held straight by the shield. The slightly trapezoidal shape of the connector assures that you can't even touch the center post if you try to plug it in upside down.
The crappy ones have the center post flush with or even protruding slightly from the over-large opening of the socket such that upside down insertion is blocked by the center post. That is why they break even with normal use by mere mortals.
Forcing companies to provide mortgages to people who are patently unqualified is an example of unreasonable regulations that resulted in untold devastation to the economy.
Nobody EVER did that. They were required to be a bit more flexible in determining qualifications for loans on starter homes (that is, small mortgages) and to stop blatantly racist redlining. Instead, they began actively talking people into huge loans with built in time bombs for McMansions (that is, huge mortgages). Then they invented a variety of wildly complex new financial instruments based on those crazy loans deliberately (and fraudulently) mis-represented as AAA investments.
In other words, the banks are damned dirty crooks. Full stop.
If the surrounding connector is designed with proper tolerance it is nearly impossible to break the center post even on the micro connectors. Alas, crappy construction means excessively loose tolerance and so the center post gets stressed.
Really, I think the problem with the micro connector is crappy construction rather than a design flaw. The one on my phone has endured years of use (several thousand insertions) and still fits firmly enough to be able to suspend the phone by the USB cable. If made well, it can be durable.
GPL isn't the relevant part of the nightmare though. It is no less harmful if B takes per-instance proprietary library D and links it to A. You are now potentially on the hook for more than each copy of A was sold for.
I would consider U-Verse in spite of the lower speed except that seems to be just trading one evil lizard for another. That and I see the UVerse truck at my across the street neighbor's house every other week, often several days in a row.
They don't say "We may record this call for quality assurance", they say "This cal may be recorded for quality assurance purposes". nd as in TFA, the recording certainly did assure the quality of the service for the customer.
I'm guessing Comcast and CenturyLink are not run by poor people.