Seems to me, the cloud based business model - overcharging your customers to lose their data from your server - was fine as long as they would pony up the money.(and agree to the zero liability terms)
Now that (non)economies of scale are proving too hard to keep the pictures of last summer's vacation from vanishing into the ether, it's time to reconsider allowing the end user to buy your app and worry about their own data.
It seems Linus' 2 word complaint was responded to in kind, albeit, in a more professional manner.
Far be it from me to dictate someone else's communication skills.
I'll just take it under advisement before I recommend to my clients that they enter into business relationships with people that throw public temper tantrums.
The year of the Linux desktop has been postponed while we re-evaluate our options. We're talking to Bill right now to confirm our market share figures, and will get back to you shortly.
BTW: if you don't like NVIDIA, feel FREE not to use them.
Statistically speaking almost no-one knows this. At its extremes these limits are often interpreted wrongly. - Mostly by people that have never built anything. In most "physical" problems, an answer approaching 0 means you are about to waste your time. An answer of infinity is supposed to let you know you have NO idea of WTF you are doing. Everything in between is actually pretty interesting. Mathematical models are things of inherent beauty and most of it in theoretical physics is above my pay grade.
OTOH the singularity is handy when the "scientific" "crowd" starts becoming overly smug with the "religious" "nuts".
I have only about a 1 in 10 success rate of explaining the difference between Power and Energy to people who don't know the difference. Not because I am bad at teaching. Usually I get through the first part, and then ask myself - "Why am I doing this to myself again? Then I switch the subject to sports. everyone walks away happy.
I thought this was nuts till I started looking up some numbers.
Germans are paying.23 per kwh. New Yorkers pay about.19. So the question is what do New Yorkers get from their tax dollars, besides goofy politicians? Meanwhile Floridians pay about.07/kwh. Which explains why I am glad the Germans are the "innovators" on this one. All in all, still pretty impressive.
So why isn't Linux the first choice for all financial services?
Another security strawman. Most financial institutions have spent several hundred million setting up their IT not to mention their IP. Most had to be dragged away kicking and screaming from OS/2. Now the same is playing out for XP. It works quite well for them. If it was cheaper by 4 decimal places per user/Admin/machine to switch to Linux they would do it in a heartbeat. It's not. Although depending on their role, their servers run any variety of OS. Cause that's what works.
As one who is rapidly approaching the age of your implied euthanasia candidacy, I find it tormenting to realize that a product of the hippie 60's generation main contribution to society was in the service of my country during the cold war. To consider that era one of the the longest peacetime periods in our history belies the utter failure to realize the dreams of my youth. While I reject the OP's assertion out of hand, your assessment of the situation is perhaps more troubling. If I died tomorrow, you nor my children would be no better off. I suspect the root of the problem is our insistence of ensuring the government, insurance companies and the like remain rich at the expense of everyone else. My only advice to you is continue to work hard, and when the next revolution comes along, buy a ticket.
You present the quintessential dilemma. The philosophy of "all accidents are preventible" has been in place since Forrestall. Regrettably, several careers will be dead ended by this mishap as root causes are identified and responsibility (not blame) is appropriately assigned. I have never witnessed a more intense and rigorous system of checks and fail safes than the USN employs. I have no doubt every adequate regulation and procedure was in place to attempt to mitigate this episode. Yet it happened. It is necessary for those involved not to accept the inevitability of these things, but in the aftermath we are reminded from time to time - Shit happens.
Not sure why you would be aware of it. I'm infering from your post that you have zero experience fighting fires at all. Shipboard firefighting is a different beast. The methods required to combat fires in an enclosed space with 10x less volume and a plethora of volitile and toxic materials is night and day. To worsen (better?) your odds, a shipboard firefighter is trained from day one to activley engage the fire and put it out - or die trying. Passivley supervising a controlled burn is usually not an option. A flashover in a burning building may take 20 minutes compared to 3 minutes in a confined space. Most shipboard firefighters have to be "untrained" if they want to work for a fire department. Their methods are too radical and dangerous. In any case you have focused on the wrong object of the subject, that being courage. Suffice it to say, these guys have balls.
Why don't you go back to responding to Nigerian email scams instead of posting variations of liberal ethics on slashdot?
People of honor will do whatever they have to do to make it through the day. And they will do it honorably - or die trying.
Scumbags however, will be scumbags their whole life and will count on morons like you to justify their pathological behavior. Usually guys like this tend to congregate in town inhabited by guys like you. Then of course you will call upon guys like me to take care of your "problem" for you. Because of course, you prefer to remain anonymous cowards, all the while spewing your superior social intellect. /end ass ream.
Right, like checking the driveway for nails before getting in the car. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes programs like this expensive as hell. Hopefully they avoided a major disaster and will continue to refine the program. This is indeed an important event that needs to be assimilated.
My friend, please compare the energy density (in Mj/L) of gasoline, coal, and hydrogen. - I'll even allow you to use liquid hydrogen.
There is a reason engineers choose the materials they do. Another hint: the price of oil is not based on the amount of it in the ground. We'll burn gas till the last drop. If you think gas is expensive, wait till your plan comes true and see how much you pay then. If it makes you feel better, the entire planet receives lots more energy from the sun than we use. Sunlight is free, yet we don't use it. Why? - energy density. Converting this almost limitless source of energy into useful energy is not only inconvenient, but also because it's expensive. Most people like you will still claim "the sky is falling." Relax. We are engineers. We will do it for you. When the time comes.
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Seems to me, the cloud based business model - overcharging your customers to lose their data from your server - was fine as long as they would pony up the money.(and agree to the zero liability terms)
Now that (non)economies of scale are proving too hard to keep the pictures of last summer's vacation from vanishing into the ether, it's time to reconsider allowing the end user to buy your app and worry about their own data.
Truth up! Reminds me of a variation on the old expression. -
"Hi, I'm from the Governm^H^H^H^H^H^H^H FSF, were here to help you"!
It seems Linus' 2 word complaint was responded to in kind, albeit, in a more professional manner.
Far be it from me to dictate someone else's communication skills.
I'll just take it under advisement before I recommend to my clients that they enter into business relationships with people that throw public temper tantrums.
The year of the Linux desktop has been postponed while we re-evaluate our options. We're talking to Bill right now to confirm our market share figures, and will get back to you shortly.
BTW: if you don't like NVIDIA, feel FREE not to use them.
Just thought I'd do a public service announcement and declare your comment -1 total hogwash.
Anything more would just be ranting over foolishness.
economic warp speed
? sounds like a new function describing our national debt.
Statistically speaking almost no-one knows this. At its extremes these limits are often interpreted wrongly. - Mostly by people that have never built anything.
In most "physical" problems, an answer approaching 0 means you are about to waste your time.
An answer of infinity is supposed to let you know you have NO idea of WTF you are doing.
Everything in between is actually pretty interesting. Mathematical models are things of inherent beauty and most of it in theoretical physics is above my pay grade.
OTOH the singularity is handy when the "scientific" "crowd" starts becoming overly smug with the "religious" "nuts".
It depends. Do I still get the laptop?
I have only about a 1 in 10 success rate of explaining the difference between Power and Energy to people who don't know the difference.
Not because I am bad at teaching.
Usually I get through the first part, and then ask myself - "Why am I doing this to myself again?
Then I switch the subject to sports.
everyone walks away happy.
I thought this was nuts till I started looking up some numbers. .23 per kwh. New Yorkers pay about .19. .07/kwh. Which explains why I am glad the Germans are the "innovators" on this one.
Germans are paying
So the question is what do New Yorkers get from their tax dollars, besides goofy politicians?
Meanwhile Floridians pay about
All in all, still pretty impressive.
MS quipped. "you're free not to use it".
Another security strawman. Most financial institutions have spent several hundred million setting up their IT not to mention their IP. Most had to be dragged away kicking and screaming from OS/2. Now the same is playing out for XP. It works quite well for them.
If it was cheaper by 4 decimal places per user/Admin/machine to switch to Linux they would do it in a heartbeat.
It's not.
Although depending on their role, their servers run any variety of OS. Cause that's what works.
As one who is rapidly approaching the age of your implied euthanasia candidacy, I find it tormenting to realize that a product of the hippie 60's generation main contribution to society was in the service of my country during the cold war.
To consider that era one of the the longest peacetime periods in our history belies the utter failure to realize the dreams of my youth.
While I reject the OP's assertion out of hand, your assessment of the situation is perhaps more troubling.
If I died tomorrow, you nor my children would be no better off. I suspect the root of the problem is our insistence of ensuring the government, insurance companies and the like remain rich at the expense of everyone else. My only advice to you is continue to work hard, and when the next revolution comes along, buy a ticket.
You present the quintessential dilemma. The philosophy of "all accidents are preventible" has been in place since Forrestall. Regrettably, several careers will be dead ended by this mishap as root causes are identified and responsibility (not blame) is appropriately assigned.
I have never witnessed a more intense and rigorous system of checks and fail safes than the USN employs. I have no doubt every adequate regulation and procedure was in place to attempt to mitigate this episode. Yet it happened. It is necessary for those involved not to accept the inevitability of these things, but in the aftermath we are reminded from time to time - Shit happens.
Not sure why you would be aware of it. I'm infering from your post that you have zero experience fighting fires at all.
Shipboard firefighting is a different beast. The methods required to combat fires in an enclosed space with 10x less volume and a plethora of volitile and toxic materials is night and day. To worsen (better?) your odds, a shipboard firefighter is trained from day one to activley engage the fire and put it out - or die trying. Passivley supervising a controlled burn is usually not an option. A flashover in a burning building may take 20 minutes compared to 3 minutes in a confined space. Most shipboard firefighters have to be "untrained" if they want to work for a fire department. Their methods are too radical and dangerous.
In any case you have focused on the wrong object of the subject, that being courage.
Suffice it to say, these guys have balls.
Why don't you go back to responding to Nigerian email scams instead of posting variations of liberal ethics on slashdot?
People of honor will do whatever they have to do to make it through the day. And they will do it honorably - or die trying.
Scumbags however, will be scumbags their whole life and will count on morons like you to justify their pathological behavior.
Usually guys like this tend to congregate in town inhabited by guys like you. Then of course you will call upon guys like me to take care of your "problem" for you. Because of course, you prefer to remain anonymous cowards, all the while spewing your superior social intellect.
/end ass ream.
I knew if this went on long enough we drift off topic.
They can have both. And will.
Right, like checking the driveway for nails before getting in the car.
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes programs like this expensive as hell. Hopefully they avoided a major disaster and will continue to refine the program. This is indeed an important event that needs to be assimilated.
Go to your desk drawer. Inside there will be 3 numbered envelopes...
Dear world. Don't listen to this guy.
My friend, please compare the energy density (in Mj/L) of gasoline, coal, and hydrogen. - I'll even allow you to use liquid hydrogen.
There is a reason engineers choose the materials they do.
Another hint: the price of oil is not based on the amount of it in the ground. We'll burn gas till the last drop. If you think gas is expensive, wait till your plan comes true and see how much you pay then.
If it makes you feel better, the entire planet receives lots more energy from the sun than we use. Sunlight is free, yet we don't use it. Why? - energy density. Converting this almost limitless source of energy into useful energy is not only inconvenient, but also because it's expensive.
Most people like you will still claim "the sky is falling." Relax. We are engineers. We will do it for you. When the time comes.
They mean only someone that makes more money than they do.
The rich go away
The tax stays.
keep drinking the kool-aid, your next.
Then I realized it wasn't a joke.
This is so not going to end well.
something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tubes.
you are part of the problem. Although we are making progress
Is theoretical physicist an oxymoron or a diagnosis?