It's a balance between "change for the sake of change" and "being hamstrung by technical debt". Yes, old hardware support is technical debt if it holds you back.
We can't even define what "conscious" actually means other than "we recognize it when we see it". Even then, we can only recognize our own consciousness, but can only assume something that we see that acts conscious is actually conscious and not just acting. In the end, what is the difference?
Microsoft released patented source code for free? I guess Microsoft should be just as worried about being sued. Just because something is GPL'd doesn't mean you have access to the patents. Someone could just slap a GPL sticker on code and you'd be in just as much trouble. All the GPL does is keep people who release the source code from being able to sue the end users later, but not 3rd parties.
Wheeler is also looking to make changes to Title II. A simple way around your "loop hole" would be to say you cannot charge differently for non-internet services. Require that the these communication companies normalizes their prices for all services based on bandwidth consumed and features. An example would be VoIP compared to normal voice on your cell phone, VoIP would be cheaper because it has dynamic bandwidth while normal voice allocated a fixed bandwidth and consumes more.
Logically, being closer isn't prioritization. If paying to have your servers closer is against the law, then the logical conclusion would be you have to make sure your servers are as far away from the customers as possible.
Self hosted mail servers, the #1 cause of spam prior to port 25 being blocked. Most ISPs I know allow you to unblock that port without question or cost.
10 years ago in college I was talking with a teacher with a PHD related to wellness and we got on this exact topic. They told me too much exercise is well known to increase arterial plaque and was a major health issue with long distance runners. Great hearts, bad plaque.
The problem is where these high paying jobs are located. Making $75k is nothing when you have a 1500 sqft 2 bedroom house with no garage and it costs $250k.
I think a better measure of income is how much a wage is relative to the local average income. I would rather make $50k/year where the average income is $25k than making $100k where the average income is $75k. Assuming it's a nice place to live, of course.
I hear a lot of companies run "current" FreeBSD in production and it works just fine. Someone was running an alpha grade FreeBSD in production on a 100Gb router to test out network performance. Ran like that for months before the decided the code was good enough to commit to "current" and ask others to test.
It has been shipping in Fedora for the past four years, and in RHEL since last summer. If that's not production testing then what is?
And to think, enterprise users are still complaining about problems that SystemD is creating, but those issues are being shrugged off as "working as expected".
To compare it, Windows 8 must be a success because it's been in production for a few years now. SystemD is nearly identical to Metro in every abstract way. The end users who care, don't want it, some people just accept it and think it's great. Well good for them, now give us an option to not use Metro/SystemD and let people who like it use it. the problem with SystemD is there is no option, everything breaks without it as more things become dependent on it.
Torvalds is fine. People who are good at what they do can criticize others. Lennart has done some good things in the past, but that doesn't give him a free pass to what he's doing with SystemD.
The difference is that SysAdmins hate SystemD and FreeBSD is primarily developed by SysAdmins. When FreeBSD has to solve the same problems that SystemD is hoping to solve, FreeBSD will do it in a way that SysAdmins will be more comfortable with.
SystemD is attempting to solve problems without understanding how they should best be solved. Get a decade or two of managing tens of thousands of servers, then come back and attempt to solve the problems, You'll probably do it a bit differently.
That can happen?! Tech is one of the few things that are primarily limited by imagination and has practical application to every day life. I could understand getting sick of your job, but I can't understand no longer enjoying tech. I'm one of those people that absolutely hates being bored, and as long as I am awake, my mind is always racing thinking about something. Tech is one of those few things that can keep my mind preoccupied for any length of time.
When I have nothing to think about, I get anxiety. The simplest feeling of anything not normal makes me think of what it could be, next thing I know I'm on the topic of cancer or some neurological degeneration. Having something to keep my mind preoccupied reduces my anxiety. I'm addicted to thinking, I can't make it stop.
The fiber itself has a projected life time of 50-100 years. The actual electronics have simple upgrade paths that are drop in replacements and backwards compatible. Want to go from 2.5Gb to 40Gb, simple line card upgrade, no changes at the customer's house. Want to go from 40Gb to 320Gb, linecard change, you do need to replace the ONT at the customer's house, but it's backwards compatible and you can upgrade one customer at a time. 40Gb is already out, that's 1.25Gb/s per customer with a 32 way split and its what Google Fiber uses. the 320Gb is 10Gb per customer and just started real world testing in the USA and is scheduled to be ratified in 1-2 years.
Yep. So WiFi is (or should be) a lot easier to roll out and maintain — and yet, it did not survive.
There is little demand for a high latency unstable bandwidth connection. Wifi can be better than some poorly maintained fixed line connections, but it's not hard for even DSL to be better because of latency and packet-loss.
It wouldn't be so bad if their debt per customer wasn't 2x-3x more than the average. According to several case studies, $1.8k-$2.5k per customer is the norm for the entire cost of last mile fiber infrastructure. This does not include purchasing a datacenter or a trunk line to the Internet, only the last mile infrastructure, equipment, and installation.
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It's a balance between "change for the sake of change" and "being hamstrung by technical debt". Yes, old hardware support is technical debt if it holds you back.
Cloudflare offers free HTTPS CDN services. I think you over estimate the "cost" of HTTPS.
We can't even define what "conscious" actually means other than "we recognize it when we see it". Even then, we can only recognize our own consciousness, but can only assume something that we see that acts conscious is actually conscious and not just acting. In the end, what is the difference?
Microsoft released patented source code for free? I guess Microsoft should be just as worried about being sued. Just because something is GPL'd doesn't mean you have access to the patents. Someone could just slap a GPL sticker on code and you'd be in just as much trouble. All the GPL does is keep people who release the source code from being able to sue the end users later, but not 3rd parties.
Oxygen is toxic, water is toxic, nitrogen is toxic. Please define the safe allowance of such poison and how much is actually ingested.
Wheeler is also looking to make changes to Title II. A simple way around your "loop hole" would be to say you cannot charge differently for non-internet services. Require that the these communication companies normalizes their prices for all services based on bandwidth consumed and features. An example would be VoIP compared to normal voice on your cell phone, VoIP would be cheaper because it has dynamic bandwidth while normal voice allocated a fixed bandwidth and consumes more.
Logically, being closer isn't prioritization. If paying to have your servers closer is against the law, then the logical conclusion would be you have to make sure your servers are as far away from the customers as possible.
Self hosted mail servers, the #1 cause of spam prior to port 25 being blocked. Most ISPs I know allow you to unblock that port without question or cost.
Verizon shareholders told Verizon's CEO to shut up because he's making the company look bad. Yet he kept on opening his mouth.
10 years ago in college I was talking with a teacher with a PHD related to wellness and we got on this exact topic. They told me too much exercise is well known to increase arterial plaque and was a major health issue with long distance runners. Great hearts, bad plaque.
I guess they didn't teach you how to round.
Will my Internet be cheaper now?
The problem is where these high paying jobs are located. Making $75k is nothing when you have a 1500 sqft 2 bedroom house with no garage and it costs $250k.
I think a better measure of income is how much a wage is relative to the local average income. I would rather make $50k/year where the average income is $25k than making $100k where the average income is $75k. Assuming it's a nice place to live, of course.
Great explanation of the problem domain.
I hear a lot of companies run "current" FreeBSD in production and it works just fine. Someone was running an alpha grade FreeBSD in production on a 100Gb router to test out network performance. Ran like that for months before the decided the code was good enough to commit to "current" and ask others to test.
It has been shipping in Fedora for the past four years, and in RHEL since last summer. If that's not production testing then what is?
And to think, enterprise users are still complaining about problems that SystemD is creating, but those issues are being shrugged off as "working as expected".
To compare it, Windows 8 must be a success because it's been in production for a few years now. SystemD is nearly identical to Metro in every abstract way. The end users who care, don't want it, some people just accept it and think it's great. Well good for them, now give us an option to not use Metro/SystemD and let people who like it use it. the problem with SystemD is there is no option, everything breaks without it as more things become dependent on it.
Community competition is a good thing. FreeBSD doesn't work for everyone. If anything, SystemD is a great experiment for others to learn by.
There's also lots of white men who hate their programming job but do the work because it pays well compared to other jobs they could get.
And they can GTFO because they're all horrible at what they do. They're the cause of nearly all of the technical debt.
Torvalds is fine. People who are good at what they do can criticize others. Lennart has done some good things in the past, but that doesn't give him a free pass to what he's doing with SystemD.
The difference is that SysAdmins hate SystemD and FreeBSD is primarily developed by SysAdmins. When FreeBSD has to solve the same problems that SystemD is hoping to solve, FreeBSD will do it in a way that SysAdmins will be more comfortable with.
SystemD is attempting to solve problems without understanding how they should best be solved. Get a decade or two of managing tens of thousands of servers, then come back and attempt to solve the problems, You'll probably do it a bit differently.
That can happen?! Tech is one of the few things that are primarily limited by imagination and has practical application to every day life. I could understand getting sick of your job, but I can't understand no longer enjoying tech. I'm one of those people that absolutely hates being bored, and as long as I am awake, my mind is always racing thinking about something. Tech is one of those few things that can keep my mind preoccupied for any length of time.
When I have nothing to think about, I get anxiety. The simplest feeling of anything not normal makes me think of what it could be, next thing I know I'm on the topic of cancer or some neurological degeneration. Having something to keep my mind preoccupied reduces my anxiety. I'm addicted to thinking, I can't make it stop.
The fiber itself has a projected life time of 50-100 years. The actual electronics have simple upgrade paths that are drop in replacements and backwards compatible. Want to go from 2.5Gb to 40Gb, simple line card upgrade, no changes at the customer's house. Want to go from 40Gb to 320Gb, linecard change, you do need to replace the ONT at the customer's house, but it's backwards compatible and you can upgrade one customer at a time. 40Gb is already out, that's 1.25Gb/s per customer with a 32 way split and its what Google Fiber uses. the 320Gb is 10Gb per customer and just started real world testing in the USA and is scheduled to be ratified in 1-2 years.
Yep. So WiFi is (or should be) a lot easier to roll out and maintain — and yet, it did not survive.
There is little demand for a high latency unstable bandwidth connection. Wifi can be better than some poorly maintained fixed line connections, but it's not hard for even DSL to be better because of latency and packet-loss.
Sounds like you should be reporting this to the Federal level.
It wouldn't be so bad if their debt per customer wasn't 2x-3x more than the average. According to several case studies, $1.8k-$2.5k per customer is the norm for the entire cost of last mile fiber infrastructure. This does not include purchasing a datacenter or a trunk line to the Internet, only the last mile infrastructure, equipment, and installation.