Except this isn't true. There is hardware that self destructs if you try to physically tamper with it. It is mostly accurate, but not in every case*. * No pun intended
Except that there is no such thing as tamper proof short of the device being a one-off version, which doesn't bode well for backups, etc. For example, if you have a "tamper proof" box but it is mass produced (which everything is today) then someone, with enough time, effort, and money, can find a way around the "tamper proof" mechanism. Then all they need is physical access...
You have a vastly over inflated opinion on the competency of the average human. A large percentage of them could be outperformed by the processing power of a Raspberry Pi.
Human pattern matching when driving, even in poor conditions, compared to the processing power of a Raspberry Pi would be like comparing the latest supercomputer to the first calculators. Yes, some drivers are poor, mostly because they are more interested in the song on the radio or the latest text message than actually driving. But the developers of self-driving cars are finding out just how hard it is to match the intelligence of even a poor driver, let alone an average one.
Why would you buy one outright? Think how cheap taxis will be when there is no driver to be paid a salary.
For about 60% to 70% of urban populations this argument has some merit along with the ability to rent a car for trips, etc.. I'm not getting into the economics, just that it would be possible for these people to go without owning a car. However, some people won't have access to this level of service (i.e. small towns, rural areas), some people like to drive, and some have special requirements (i.e. being able to tow other vehicles). These people will still need to own a car.
The first problem is that a vast majority of people on north american roads fail to follow the rules of the road (usually regarding following too closely, speeding and coming to a complete stop when required to).
The woman I read about in the article did not hit the car and thus was NOT following too closely. However, drivers who maintain space tend to want to continue maintaining space. Therefore it is still stressful when someone in front of you is jamming on the breaks for no reason.
The Second problem is that this new technology is expected to work with out bugs from the get go
Don't expect humans to automatically embrace these 'bugs'. Many people have spend years working on learning to drive around human drivers. Don't throw robot drivers into the mix and just expect humans to catch on to their unpredictable nature. It is the robot drivers that are clearly in the wrong because they are changing the equation.
Basically, you have to treat automated cars like like a student driver vehicle. You never know what they are going to do. Today, these cars are identifiable due to the external cameras, etc. used as part of the testing. However, when these vehicles go I live I suggest that they have specific warning lights and markings on the cars so that human drivers can easily identify them for at least the first couple of generations.
This is why we should be investing more in modernizing flu vaccine manufacturing. If the next super flu is also highly infectious to chickens, they will be culled and burned.
We already have that.... One of them is a recombinant protein-based technique approved in 2013. As I understand it, the protein-based techniques are supposed to create a more consistent vaccine batch than eggs (due to the intermingling of egg DNA). Plus, some people are allergic to chicken eggs and are unable to take the flue vaccine created using the egg based techniques.
You can thank the FCC for allowing companies like ClearChannel to buy up radio stations, homogenize them. It seems to me, that from there, they just drop an iPod Shuffle down on a table, add a few DJ breaks, and call it done, playing the same 50-100 licensed songs from there on out, except with an old "King Biscuit Flower Hour". In just a few years, they turned radio from a living, thriving medium to a time warp of 70s garbage, and made the medium all but worthless except for talk radio and pirate stations.
They do that because fewer and fewer people listen, which means fewer ads sold and at lower rates. They try to keep the cost of their content in line with revenues so they remain profitable. Expect broadcast radio to all but disappear in a few years.
It's a death spiral. Less people listen due to MP3's, streaming services, etc. The stations consolidate and then play the same 10 songs on rotation, reducing costs. Listeners hate listening to the same 10 songs, so they leave, rinse, repeat....
Personally, I listen to independent streaming radio stations. They are willing to play local and new artists.
I don't think there's even by a TV SciFi series where the first half of season 1 was any good. It always takes a while for the writers and cast to find the characters.
I can name a few that hooked me from the beginning: Stargate, Killjoys, The Expanse (I had read the books, so this one might not count).
Alcohol isn't as dangerous on its own. They included the results of risky behavior and impaired operation of machines. That is like saying getting a blowjob is dangerous, because they included accidents caused while getting a blowjob while driving.
While I am sure that certain activities while impaired are more dangerous (driving), I would suggest that being stupid is dangerous, and alcohol makes one dumber than before. They don't call it "Beer goggles" for no reason.
A lot of well researched studies have indications that some alcohol is actually good for you (i.e. a glass of wine with dinner) which seems to directly contradict the final conclusions of this study. There is clear evidence that over-drinking results in higher health risks, both personally (liver disease, etc.) and for others (driving drunk). However, they also seem to have included any other bad correlations, no matter how weak, from other studies (i.e. cancer). It's like saying that living can cause cancer so we should abstain. Maybe that's a bit overboard, but the study strikes me as being a tad broad in it's conclusions which leads me to question their methods and where the money came from?
Personally, I don't drink much outside of the occasional glass of wine with dinner or a drink when out with friends.
Seems like many chips have similarities but affect some of them more then others. What's more interesting is that none of this is really being exploited even months after disclosure. obviously a good ideal to try and mitigate what has been found to be weaknesses. But its hardly a huge threat to anyone yet. You can buy into a ARM or AMD and feel secure now, but what about down the road? I don't see any real fixes on the hardware side, only with OS, microcode and bios updates as we move forward for at least the next few years.
My understanding that most of the Intel flaws require physical access to the system. Plus, BIOS and OS updates have been quickly developed to mitigate some of the issues. I'm not sure if this is reason why there haven't been more exploits or if because of some other factor.
Sounds like every sysadmin feels NASA's pain. Don't you just love when there's a remote machine that doesn't respond to any means of contacting it you have, and getting there would take a whole day's trip, preceded by two weeks of having access there organized?
Uh... nope. Most sysadmins have their servers in-house, at a data center or in some branch office where somebody can take a look at it. Operating servers in unmanned locations is a niche, it happens in a lot of industries so it's not exactly rare but no most sysadmins don't know that pain.
The old days used to be like this. It was always a nervous moment when you rebooted. But that was before we had remote management tools and virtual systems.
Smart sysadmins deploy remote physical servers with multiple paths of access and remote tools such as remote power switching, networked KVM switches, independent remote admin interfaces (i.e. iLO, DRAC, etc.), etc.
The advent of virtual systems makes this much easier with the ability to image a VM as a backup and bring it up on another VM host if needed. In fact, if you don't have the money to pay for remote tools, you are better off deploying an unmanned server with a VM system on the hardware and your app server as a VM.
I agree that in the end the only real VR will be some form of complete neural takeover, like the approach you are talking about, or the Snowcrash/Matrix "jack in" approach. But it makes you realize that jacking in or any other approach will have to totally block all pathways to and from your brain, they restore it when disconnected... not sure how many people are going to go for that in real reality just for a great VR experience! That's probably just my inner luddite talking though.
Reminds me of Sword Art Online Mother's Rosario where patients with terminal diseases were being used to test direct brain access to a VR environment.
The temporal cold war story was weak, but season 3 was mostly pretty good. It had potential, many of the classic Trek elements like reflecting the problems of today and exploring moral dilemmas...
For some reason they just couldn't hold it together though, too many bad episodes and ideas.
This... the Temporal cold war story was where they lost me. This, to me, seemed like a TNG storyline that ended up on the cutting floor but was shoe-horned into the Archer timeline.
Between that and their devotion to the Prime Directive. The reason why this irked me is because even though the Prime Directive was in place during the Kirk timeline, he ignored it when it suited him. Why? Because when you are the weaker power (Klingons seemed to have a larger presence and, for the most part, stronger ships) in the universe you don't always have the luxury of a moral debate. We also had story lines where Kirk paid the price and learned why the Prime Directive was important. What they should have done is made Archer more of a cowboy than even Kirk with a gradual progression towards adherence to the Prime Directive as they made lasting mistakes and as the Federation grew.
Right. I never heard of anyone taking them to make themselves smarter. Just to get stuff done, like studying or papers/projects. I'd be interested to see a study done on knowledge retention for learning done on adderall vs without.
Exactly. There wasn't any mention of testing to see if long-term memory retention is affected. After all, I thought that students took adderall to study for tests.
Are these miles fully autonomous (meaning no human in the car) or are the miles with assistance (human in the car, ready to take over or "assist")? If with assistance, what is the rate of help the cars get on some sort of statistic that can be compared over time? (Maybe "assists" per 1000 miles or something like that.) The statistic in the headline sounds impressive, but is it?
It's also missing details such as weather, temperature, types of roads (i.e. pavement vs gravel), how well the roads are marked, traffic conditions, time of day, construction/road changes, amount of pedestrians/cyclists, etc.
If your electronic voting booth runs a commercial operating system then you have already failed to secure your systems.
Yes and no. An electronic voting booth running a commercial operating system can be reasonably secure if it's not accessible from the Internet or if it uses security software and VPN technology for all communication. That being said, all electronic systems running an OS are vulnerable to having malware loaded locally. Once a bad actor has physical access to anything (i,e. through local access, social engineering, etc.) then all bets are off.
The only way to be sure is to have a paper trail. If you're going to have verify the paper trail anyways, then you may as well go back to paper ballots...
And calling someone a pedophile is not "human emotion" and "frustration". It is disgusting behavior/quote> That depends entirely on why Musk blurted that out, which we'll likely never know... but rest assured he had a reason (bear in mind that extremely influential people are often extremely connected people... and in this day and age, there fewer and fewer secrets).
No, just no... Unless Musk provides proof of what he said is true, it's slander and disgusting. Assuming that Musk knows more than he is saying is pure speculation and being an apologist for someone who is acting like a bully.
China has an unofficial holiday named "Singles' Day", which has morphed into one of the biggest shopping days in China. Alibaba makes a killing on this day.
So Amazon is trying to create such a day, hoping for massive "Black Friday" sales.
Except, in China, folks can say, "Hey, are you single? I'm single! Let's buy some expensive useless crap online to give to each other!"
In the US, saying, "Hey, are you Prime? I'm Prime!" . . . well, that just doesn't quite cut it.
Nothing is stopping you from buying a present for your single neighbor during Prime Day... Well, unless you are married, have a jealous partner, etc.....
The imperfection of officiating has always been a part of sports and the shift to video replay of almost every call has made the games barely watchable. Another factor is removing weather, sun, wind as game influencing factors by moving outdoor games inside. If the game was originally designed to be played outside it should still be played outside. Couple all of this with weird (ie non natural surfaces) and you end up with games that barely resemble what they looked like 50 years ago. Baseball has probably done the best job of not straying too far afield other than the few teams that play in domes (and shouldnâ(TM)t.) I would love to see baseball, football, soccer, tennis and hockey all stay outdoors where they belong.
Hockey was only played outdoors by kids. Since the early era of professional hockey, it was played in indoor arenas (the NHL is 50 years old). However, the goaltenders need to be forced to go back to skinnier pads. Between the goaltenders getting bigger and the large pads that they wear, the only spot left to score goals are the upper corners. Reducing the goalie pads would fix this.
Some people use their laptop for more than just standard office apps. CAD, Video editing, etc. can take a lot of RAM. Granted, these work better on a desktop but you can't take a desktop to a client, etc.
Plus, since the RAM can't be upgraded after purchase it makes sense to get more than you need, just in case.
I always thought of CA as the place where old software goes to die, or at least be sold without any intent to improve or even support it
Yep. CA bought up smaller, established, but failing software companies that had a market for at least one decent software title. They would then fire all of the developers and use the software titles as cash cows. wash, rinse, repeat. They made a decent business out of this strategy.
On one hand, you have to admire them for successfully using this strategy for so long. On the other had, it was always frustrating when a useful piece of software was bought up by CA as it meant that you would have to find an alternative....
It's great to have an OS that vomits locations of installed programs all over a binary configuration database, and can't change them.
Also one that has two settings programs with no real definition between them.
Also one that can't even copy itself, let you back up easily, support longer filenames, or decent permissioning.
Also one that ships with no useful CLI or development tools, doesn't work with the rest of the world.
And to top it all, coming from a company with a long track record of predatory behavior, god-awful design, and zero customer service.
Sign me up!
You can change locations of programs in Windows. Granted, for non-advanced users, you need to re-install the app and select the new folder/drive during the install. However for advanced users, Windows does have junction points (the ability to mount drives and folders to other folders) so you could move a program anywhere and just create a junction point. I've used Junction Link Magic, a free third party app, to do this in the past. But it is also built into Windows. mklink is the Windows CLI tool for this.
Windows has an Image tool for backing up your system. But you are right, it doesn't have a good backup tool out of the box. The Windows Eco system is built on paying for third party apps. Personally, I use Macrium Reflect. But there are other backup tools that have various levels of backups at different price points.
Windows has supported file level permissions and long filenames for a while now. Not sure where this complaint is coming from.
I can't comment on the development world since I'm not a developer. It does seem that Microsoft is trying to become more developer friendly with buying Github. At least, that's what it looks like on the surface.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...
FYI: I didn't mean to say that people don't get work done on other platforms, just that the majority of business is still carried out on Windows desktops, laptops, and tablets. I do see the underlying OS becoming much less important over the next 10 years as business apps become cloud-based.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...
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Except this isn't true. There is hardware that self destructs if you try to physically tamper with it. It is mostly accurate, but not in every case*. * No pun intended
Except that there is no such thing as tamper proof short of the device being a one-off version, which doesn't bode well for backups, etc. For example, if you have a "tamper proof" box but it is mass produced (which everything is today) then someone, with enough time, effort, and money, can find a way around the "tamper proof" mechanism. Then all they need is physical access...
You have a vastly over inflated opinion on the competency of the average human. A large percentage of them could be outperformed by the processing power of a Raspberry Pi.
Human pattern matching when driving, even in poor conditions, compared to the processing power of a Raspberry Pi would be like comparing the latest supercomputer to the first calculators. Yes, some drivers are poor, mostly because they are more interested in the song on the radio or the latest text message than actually driving. But the developers of self-driving cars are finding out just how hard it is to match the intelligence of even a poor driver, let alone an average one.
Why would you buy one outright? Think how cheap taxis will be when there is no driver to be paid a salary.
For about 60% to 70% of urban populations this argument has some merit along with the ability to rent a car for trips, etc.. I'm not getting into the economics, just that it would be possible for these people to go without owning a car. However, some people won't have access to this level of service (i.e. small towns, rural areas), some people like to drive, and some have special requirements (i.e. being able to tow other vehicles). These people will still need to own a car.
The first problem is that a vast majority of people on north american roads fail to follow the rules of the road (usually regarding following too closely, speeding and coming to a complete stop when required to).
The woman I read about in the article did not hit the car and thus was NOT following too closely. However, drivers who maintain space tend to want to continue maintaining space. Therefore it is still stressful when someone in front of you is jamming on the breaks for no reason.
The Second problem is that this new technology is expected to work with out bugs from the get go
Don't expect humans to automatically embrace these 'bugs'. Many people have spend years working on learning to drive around human drivers. Don't throw robot drivers into the mix and just expect humans to catch on to their unpredictable nature. It is the robot drivers that are clearly in the wrong because they are changing the equation.
Basically, you have to treat automated cars like like a student driver vehicle. You never know what they are going to do. Today, these cars are identifiable due to the external cameras, etc. used as part of the testing. However, when these vehicles go I live I suggest that they have specific warning lights and markings on the cars so that human drivers can easily identify them for at least the first couple of generations.
This is why we should be investing more in modernizing flu vaccine manufacturing. If the next super flu is also highly infectious to chickens, they will be culled and burned.
We already have that.... One of them is a recombinant protein-based technique approved in 2013. As I understand it, the protein-based techniques are supposed to create a more consistent vaccine batch than eggs (due to the intermingling of egg DNA). Plus, some people are allergic to chicken eggs and are unable to take the flue vaccine created using the egg based techniques.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/protec...
You can thank the FCC for allowing companies like ClearChannel to buy up radio stations, homogenize them. It seems to me, that from there, they just drop an iPod Shuffle down on a table, add a few DJ breaks, and call it done, playing the same 50-100 licensed songs from there on out, except with an old "King Biscuit Flower Hour". In just a few years, they turned radio from a living, thriving medium to a time warp of 70s garbage, and made the medium all but worthless except for talk radio and pirate stations.
They do that because fewer and fewer people listen, which means fewer ads sold and at lower rates. They try to keep the cost of their content in line with revenues so they remain profitable. Expect broadcast radio to all but disappear in a few years.
It's a death spiral. Less people listen due to MP3's, streaming services, etc. The stations consolidate and then play the same 10 songs on rotation, reducing costs. Listeners hate listening to the same 10 songs, so they leave, rinse, repeat....
Personally, I listen to independent streaming radio stations. They are willing to play local and new artists.
I don't think there's even by a TV SciFi series where the first half of season 1 was any good. It always takes a while for the writers and cast to find the characters.
I can name a few that hooked me from the beginning: Stargate, Killjoys, The Expanse (I had read the books, so this one might not count).
Alcohol isn't as dangerous on its own. They included the results of risky behavior and impaired operation of machines. That is like saying getting a blowjob is dangerous, because they included accidents caused while getting a blowjob while driving.
While I am sure that certain activities while impaired are more dangerous (driving), I would suggest that being stupid is dangerous, and alcohol makes one dumber than before. They don't call it "Beer goggles" for no reason.
A lot of well researched studies have indications that some alcohol is actually good for you (i.e. a glass of wine with dinner) which seems to directly contradict the final conclusions of this study. There is clear evidence that over-drinking results in higher health risks, both personally (liver disease, etc.) and for others (driving drunk). However, they also seem to have included any other bad correlations, no matter how weak, from other studies (i.e. cancer). It's like saying that living can cause cancer so we should abstain. Maybe that's a bit overboard, but the study strikes me as being a tad broad in it's conclusions which leads me to question their methods and where the money came from?
Personally, I don't drink much outside of the occasional glass of wine with dinner or a drink when out with friends.
Seems like many chips have similarities but affect some of them more then others. What's more interesting is that none of this is really being exploited even months after disclosure. obviously a good ideal to try and mitigate what has been found to be weaknesses. But its hardly a huge threat to anyone yet. You can buy into a ARM or AMD and feel secure now, but what about down the road? I don't see any real fixes on the hardware side, only with OS, microcode and bios updates as we move forward for at least the next few years.
My understanding that most of the Intel flaws require physical access to the system. Plus, BIOS and OS updates have been quickly developed to mitigate some of the issues. I'm not sure if this is reason why there haven't been more exploits or if because of some other factor.
Sounds like every sysadmin feels NASA's pain. Don't you just love when there's a remote machine that doesn't respond to any means of contacting it you have, and getting there would take a whole day's trip, preceded by two weeks of having access there organized?
Uh... nope. Most sysadmins have their servers in-house, at a data center or in some branch office where somebody can take a look at it. Operating servers in unmanned locations is a niche, it happens in a lot of industries so it's not exactly rare but no most sysadmins don't know that pain.
The old days used to be like this. It was always a nervous moment when you rebooted. But that was before we had remote management tools and virtual systems.
Smart sysadmins deploy remote physical servers with multiple paths of access and remote tools such as remote power switching, networked KVM switches, independent remote admin interfaces (i.e. iLO, DRAC, etc.), etc.
The advent of virtual systems makes this much easier with the ability to image a VM as a backup and bring it up on another VM host if needed. In fact, if you don't have the money to pay for remote tools, you are better off deploying an unmanned server with a VM system on the hardware and your app server as a VM.
I agree that in the end the only real VR will be some form of complete neural takeover, like the approach you are talking about, or the Snowcrash/Matrix "jack in" approach. But it makes you realize that jacking in or any other approach will have to totally block all pathways to and from your brain, they restore it when disconnected... not sure how many people are going to go for that in real reality just for a great VR experience! That's probably just my inner luddite talking though.
Reminds me of Sword Art Online Mother's Rosario where patients with terminal diseases were being used to test direct brain access to a VR environment.
The temporal cold war story was weak, but season 3 was mostly pretty good. It had potential, many of the classic Trek elements like reflecting the problems of today and exploring moral dilemmas...
For some reason they just couldn't hold it together though, too many bad episodes and ideas.
This... the Temporal cold war story was where they lost me. This, to me, seemed like a TNG storyline that ended up on the cutting floor but was shoe-horned into the Archer timeline.
Between that and their devotion to the Prime Directive. The reason why this irked me is because even though the Prime Directive was in place during the Kirk timeline, he ignored it when it suited him. Why? Because when you are the weaker power (Klingons seemed to have a larger presence and, for the most part, stronger ships) in the universe you don't always have the luxury of a moral debate. We also had story lines where Kirk paid the price and learned why the Prime Directive was important. What they should have done is made Archer more of a cowboy than even Kirk with a gradual progression towards adherence to the Prime Directive as they made lasting mistakes and as the Federation grew.
Right. I never heard of anyone taking them to make themselves smarter. Just to get stuff done, like studying or papers/projects. I'd be interested to see a study done on knowledge retention for learning done on adderall vs without.
Exactly. There wasn't any mention of testing to see if long-term memory retention is affected. After all, I thought that students took adderall to study for tests.
Are these miles fully autonomous (meaning no human in the car) or are the miles with assistance (human in the car, ready to take over or "assist")? If with assistance, what is the rate of help the cars get on some sort of statistic that can be compared over time? (Maybe "assists" per 1000 miles or something like that.)
The statistic in the headline sounds impressive, but is it?
It's also missing details such as weather, temperature, types of roads (i.e. pavement vs gravel), how well the roads are marked, traffic conditions, time of day, construction/road changes, amount of pedestrians/cyclists, etc.
Out of curiosity: What name should we instead give to peanutbutter?
delicious..... mike drop... .grin.
If your electronic voting booth runs a commercial operating system then you have already failed to secure your systems.
Yes and no. An electronic voting booth running a commercial operating system can be reasonably secure if it's not accessible from the Internet or if it uses security software and VPN technology for all communication. That being said, all electronic systems running an OS are vulnerable to having malware loaded locally. Once a bad actor has physical access to anything (i,e. through local access, social engineering, etc.) then all bets are off.
The only way to be sure is to have a paper trail. If you're going to have verify the paper trail anyways, then you may as well go back to paper ballots...
And calling someone a pedophile is not "human emotion" and "frustration". It is disgusting behavior/quote> That depends entirely on why Musk blurted that out, which we'll likely never know... but rest assured he had a reason (bear in mind that extremely influential people are often extremely connected people... and in this day and age, there fewer and fewer secrets).
No, just no... Unless Musk provides proof of what he said is true, it's slander and disgusting. Assuming that Musk knows more than he is saying is pure speculation and being an apologist for someone who is acting like a bully.
is it good or is it whack?
China has an unofficial holiday named "Singles' Day", which has morphed into one of the biggest shopping days in China. Alibaba makes a killing on this day.
So Amazon is trying to create such a day, hoping for massive "Black Friday" sales.
Except, in China, folks can say, "Hey, are you single? I'm single! Let's buy some expensive useless crap online to give to each other!"
In the US, saying, "Hey, are you Prime? I'm Prime!" . . . well, that just doesn't quite cut it.
Nothing is stopping you from buying a present for your single neighbor during Prime Day... Well, unless you are married, have a jealous partner, etc.....
It doesn't matter how many gallons of Brawndo this equates to since the last step is converting that value in electrolytes.
Brawndo has electrolytes....
The imperfection of officiating has always been a part of sports and the shift to video replay of almost every call has made the games barely watchable. Another factor is removing weather, sun, wind as game influencing factors by moving outdoor games inside. If the game was originally designed to be played outside it should still be played outside. Couple all of this with weird (ie non natural surfaces) and you end up with games that barely resemble what they looked like 50 years ago. Baseball has probably done the best job of not straying too far afield other than the few teams that play in domes (and shouldnâ(TM)t.) I would love to see baseball, football, soccer, tennis and hockey all stay outdoors where they belong.
Hockey was only played outdoors by kids. Since the early era of professional hockey, it was played in indoor arenas (the NHL is 50 years old). However, the goaltenders need to be forced to go back to skinnier pads. Between the goaltenders getting bigger and the large pads that they wear, the only spot left to score goals are the upper corners. Reducing the goalie pads would fix this.
And you need 32GB on a laptop?
Some people use their laptop for more than just standard office apps. CAD, Video editing, etc. can take a lot of RAM. Granted, these work better on a desktop but you can't take a desktop to a client, etc.
Plus, since the RAM can't be upgraded after purchase it makes sense to get more than you need, just in case.
I always thought of CA as the place where old software goes to die, or at least be sold without any intent to improve or even support it
Yep. CA bought up smaller, established, but failing software companies that had a market for at least one decent software title. They would then fire all of the developers and use the software titles as cash cows. wash, rinse, repeat. They made a decent business out of this strategy.
On one hand, you have to admire them for successfully using this strategy for so long. On the other had, it was always frustrating when a useful piece of software was bought up by CA as it meant that you would have to find an alternative....
Where do I want to go today?
HELL!
It's great to have an OS that vomits locations of installed programs all over a binary configuration database, and can't change them.
Also one that has two settings programs with no real definition between them.
Also one that can't even copy itself, let you back up easily, support longer filenames, or decent permissioning.
Also one that ships with no useful CLI or development tools, doesn't work with the rest of the world.
And to top it all, coming from a company with a long track record of predatory behavior, god-awful design, and zero customer service.
Sign me up!
You can change locations of programs in Windows. Granted, for non-advanced users, you need to re-install the app and select the new folder/drive during the install. However for advanced users, Windows does have junction points (the ability to mount drives and folders to other folders) so you could move a program anywhere and just create a junction point. I've used Junction Link Magic, a free third party app, to do this in the past. But it is also built into Windows. mklink is the Windows CLI tool for this.
Windows has an Image tool for backing up your system. But you are right, it doesn't have a good backup tool out of the box. The Windows Eco system is built on paying for third party apps. Personally, I use Macrium Reflect. But there are other backup tools that have various levels of backups at different price points.
Windows has supported file level permissions and long filenames for a while now. Not sure where this complaint is coming from.
I can't comment on the development world since I'm not a developer. It does seem that Microsoft is trying to become more developer friendly with buying Github. At least, that's what it looks like on the surface.
If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...
FYI: I didn't mean to say that people don't get work done on other platforms, just that the majority of business is still carried out on Windows desktops, laptops, and tablets. I do see the underlying OS becoming much less important over the next 10 years as business apps become cloud-based.
If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...