Not to fear. There's a continent full of welfare states across the pond. If the US is supposed to be so bad at this, then they can all take up the slack.
The prescription allergy drug that I used to take dropped in price at least 90% when generics were allowed. That's what happens to drugs in general.
Market consolidation has interfered with that somewhat but accounting for that is a rather low impact prospect.
You simply don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us actually depend on leading edge stuff and we would rather the golden goose not be cooked.
Sociopaths are responsible for a lot of us being ALIVE. A few of us are even aware of precisely why. A lot of wanabe-communists whine about profiteers but ultimately they get the job done. Avarice motivates people.
What's sad is how people don't get the obvious problem with the original rant here. If communism were so great, then the social welfare states of Europe would be picking up the slack here. We wouldn't have to depend on sociopaths to take care of business.
There's an entire continent of "more enlightened nations" that have simply dropped the ball.
Nonsense. Single payer systems are cost averse. They don't want to pay the cost of new and expensive drugs. HELL, patients in other countries like to brag how their national systems STIFF drug companies. That's if you're lucky and your national system even covers a drug at all. Some don't.
The real problem is that the market probably can't really bear the cost of recovering the R&D price of new antibiotics. If you were paying your own money for a drug, would you really pay 5x or 10x if you didn't have to? It's kind of a "solved problem" and the market for the next antibiotic is kind of limited.
Plus you can't just assume everything will work out. Just because you think you have found the next wonder drug, it doesn't mean it will actually pass the approval process. The drug may actually be harmful when given to humans.
Some antibiotics are already very dangerous that way and require monitoring to prevent killing the patient.
Drugs are patented products. Those patents only last a certain amount of time. After that time, you lose your monopoly. If you don't develop something ELSE then you won't have any basis to "make billions per year".
If you try to rake people over the coals over a 60 year old off-patent drug, someone is bound to come along and undercut you.
Nope. The current Windows continues to be a threat to it's own users who need constant hand holding from either corporate IT or some other form of (unpaid) onsite tech support.
You're indulging in a false strawman. The implied requirement is that you CAN be a PE not that you MUST be a PE.
It's interesting that you mention an electrician because they also have similar constraints. Testing and certification is required and someone in your shop better be a master. That doesn't mean that you yourself can't be a mere apprentice.
Russia's first boomer nearly sank on it's maiden voyage because of a pervasive culture of corruption. It's not enough to have sufficiently talented geeks. Management also needs to not screw things up.
Netflix is the thing that Apple included because it has to because it's not the dominant player in the industry. It's much like Apple including Microsoft support. They would leave it off if they thought they could get away with it but they can't.
Someone who is a mainframe admin has probably been around the block a few times and had probably seen a few iterations of the changing fashions in IT and in society in general. They are no longer impressed. They understand what's going on and they realize that it's not even new really. They may recognize it for the overhyped nonsense that it is. They may know not to get too excited and realize that "it too shall pass".
"Mental health" as it is defined by shiny happy people and effectiveness are two entirely orthogonal things. The real problem with "mental health" is that anything that isn't deemed normal by the shiny happy people is declared some sort of pathology.
"We don't suffer from mental illness, we rather enjoy it."
The sad thing is that this aspect of the situation is the only part of it that could even potentially lead to punishment. Us peasants don't have any power to sue over Microsoft's fraud. Large corporations that were put at a disadvantage by Microsoft's lies still have standing to sue.
Basically, suing for fraud and false advertising is reserved for "corporate competitors only".
The problem is accumulation. Interesting things accumulate over 5 or 10 or 20 years.
Plus, hard copies aren't nearly secure enough. Even the best archival quality printing will fade. That's even true just for the relatively short amount of time some of us have been keeping digital archives.
Perhaps you just never did anything interesting ever...
Oh please. This seems like an American fixation: the idea of being free from being offended. It's a great divergence of what Americans should believe in: Freedom of speech. Being withering daisies prevents important things from being said. That is what ALL censorship does. It interferes with the most efficient operation of a community or government.
Linus says that his sensibilities are only "cultural" and I am inclined to agree with him. I've had exposure to other cultures that aren't nearly as pansy as Americans. So I know it's not just Finns.
Even Brits seem less uptight.
Without the ability to fire idiots, some harsh language is probably necessary.
> If you are a system administrator and you can't handle with systemd, then you should consider change job!
You sir, are a moron. Sysadmins are the janitors of computing. You do not expect them to be terribly bright. You expect them to be diligent. You don't expect them to be great programmers. Otherwise they would be doing that job instead.
Once you get away from startups and before you get to "Cloud providers" you have most of the industry that follows Sturgeons Law.
If you make something "too difficult", the CxO class will find some other product to use. They might even buy the propaganda from that other guy about how "they build things to be easy".
They won't fire their "lame sysadmins", they will fire you Red Hat.
> But the idea of a dependancy based startup one can be hard pressed to disagree with.
It's broken and more difficult to fix.
Someone was talking about how systemd is fine for a laptop but not a server. I have problems with these init replacements on mildly interesting home machines. Never mind "serious servers".
By increasing the complexity of the init system you increase the required skill level on the part of admins trying to fix it. This could be some "amateur" with his laptop or normal IT professional that's not particularly talented either.
> the people pushing systemd the most strongly are the people who run the most sophisticated date centers
This kind of dismissive attitude is a classic example of the systemd problem. It's fanboys just baselessly assume that anyone who's not on board is "just an amateur". Both parts of that are quite wrongful. That includes the assumption about the experience of critics AND the idea that the "amateurs" don't matter.
If Redhat wants to build "pretentious cloud Linux" they should just do that and leave the rest of Linux alone.
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Not to fear. There's a continent full of welfare states across the pond. If the US is supposed to be so bad at this, then they can all take up the slack.
It does once drugs run out of their patents.
The prescription allergy drug that I used to take dropped in price at least 90% when generics were allowed. That's what happens to drugs in general.
Market consolidation has interfered with that somewhat but accounting for that is a rather low impact prospect.
You simply don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of us actually depend on leading edge stuff and we would rather the golden goose not be cooked.
Sociopaths are responsible for a lot of us being ALIVE. A few of us are even aware of precisely why. A lot of wanabe-communists whine about profiteers but ultimately they get the job done. Avarice motivates people.
What's sad is how people don't get the obvious problem with the original rant here. If communism were so great, then the social welfare states of Europe would be picking up the slack here. We wouldn't have to depend on sociopaths to take care of business.
There's an entire continent of "more enlightened nations" that have simply dropped the ball.
Nonsense. Single payer systems are cost averse. They don't want to pay the cost of new and expensive drugs. HELL, patients in other countries like to brag how their national systems STIFF drug companies. That's if you're lucky and your national system even covers a drug at all. Some don't.
The real problem is that the market probably can't really bear the cost of recovering the R&D price of new antibiotics. If you were paying your own money for a drug, would you really pay 5x or 10x if you didn't have to? It's kind of a "solved problem" and the market for the next antibiotic is kind of limited.
Plus you can't just assume everything will work out. Just because you think you have found the next wonder drug, it doesn't mean it will actually pass the approval process. The drug may actually be harmful when given to humans.
Some antibiotics are already very dangerous that way and require monitoring to prevent killing the patient.
That's stupid.
Drugs are patented products. Those patents only last a certain amount of time. After that time, you lose your monopoly. If you don't develop something ELSE then you won't have any basis to "make billions per year".
If you try to rake people over the coals over a 60 year old off-patent drug, someone is bound to come along and undercut you.
Nope. The current Windows continues to be a threat to it's own users who need constant hand holding from either corporate IT or some other form of (unpaid) onsite tech support.
You're indulging in a false strawman. The implied requirement is that you CAN be a PE not that you MUST be a PE.
It's interesting that you mention an electrician because they also have similar constraints. Testing and certification is required and someone in your shop better be a master. That doesn't mean that you yourself can't be a mere apprentice.
Amen brother!
This really should be a settled issue for anyone that's been through University.
Russia's first boomer nearly sank on it's maiden voyage because of a pervasive culture of corruption. It's not enough to have sufficiently talented geeks. Management also needs to not screw things up.
It's not just Android.
Alternative services are on ALL OTHER DEVICES.
Netflix is the thing that Apple included because it has to because it's not the dominant player in the industry. It's much like Apple including Microsoft support. They would leave it off if they thought they could get away with it but they can't.
I wish I had mod points for this.
Someone who is a mainframe admin has probably been around the block a few times and had probably seen a few iterations of the changing fashions in IT and in society in general. They are no longer impressed. They understand what's going on and they realize that it's not even new really. They may recognize it for the overhyped nonsense that it is. They may know not to get too excited and realize that "it too shall pass".
"Mental health" as it is defined by shiny happy people and effectiveness are two entirely orthogonal things. The real problem with "mental health" is that anything that isn't deemed normal by the shiny happy people is declared some sort of pathology.
"We don't suffer from mental illness, we rather enjoy it."
...the shrill cry of the mundane.
"How dare you make me feel inferior!"
Fortunately, available consumer storage devices aren't merely limited to 1TB.
75TB of modern hard drives wouldn't make it to my knee.
The sad thing is that this aspect of the situation is the only part of it that could even potentially lead to punishment. Us peasants don't have any power to sue over Microsoft's fraud. Large corporations that were put at a disadvantage by Microsoft's lies still have standing to sue.
Basically, suing for fraud and false advertising is reserved for "corporate competitors only".
30G IS after considerable culling.
The problem is accumulation. Interesting things accumulate over 5 or 10 or 20 years.
Plus, hard copies aren't nearly secure enough. Even the best archival quality printing will fade. That's even true just for the relatively short amount of time some of us have been keeping digital archives.
Perhaps you just never did anything interesting ever...
Oh please. This seems like an American fixation: the idea of being free from being offended. It's a great divergence of what Americans should believe in: Freedom of speech. Being withering daisies prevents important things from being said. That is what ALL censorship does. It interferes with the most efficient operation of a community or government.
Linus says that his sensibilities are only "cultural" and I am inclined to agree with him. I've had exposure to other cultures that aren't nearly as pansy as Americans. So I know it's not just Finns.
Even Brits seem less uptight.
Without the ability to fire idiots, some harsh language is probably necessary.
If enough people get pissed at the GNOME project, things like MATE and Cinnamon happen.
My laptop already boots up in 7 seconds without systemd.
> If you are a system administrator and you can't handle with systemd, then you should consider change job!
You sir, are a moron. Sysadmins are the janitors of computing. You do not expect them to be terribly bright. You expect them to be diligent. You don't expect them to be great programmers. Otherwise they would be doing that job instead.
Once you get away from startups and before you get to "Cloud providers" you have most of the industry that follows Sturgeons Law.
If you make something "too difficult", the CxO class will find some other product to use. They might even buy the propaganda from that other guy about how "they build things to be easy".
They won't fire their "lame sysadmins", they will fire you Red Hat.
> But the idea of a dependancy based startup one can be hard pressed to disagree with.
It's broken and more difficult to fix.
Someone was talking about how systemd is fine for a laptop but not a server. I have problems with these init replacements on mildly interesting home machines. Never mind "serious servers".
By increasing the complexity of the init system you increase the required skill level on the part of admins trying to fix it. This could be some "amateur" with his laptop or normal IT professional that's not particularly talented either.
> the people pushing systemd the most strongly are the people who run the most sophisticated date centers
This kind of dismissive attitude is a classic example of the systemd problem. It's fanboys just baselessly assume that anyone who's not on board is "just an amateur". Both parts of that are quite wrongful. That includes the assumption about the experience of critics AND the idea that the "amateurs" don't matter.
If Redhat wants to build "pretentious cloud Linux" they should just do that and leave the rest of Linux alone.
Nope. You can get labeled a troll by engaging in A. All you have to do is express a contrary viewpoint.
I don't care about your attempts to verbally bully me.