There are loads of things with huge cult following that no longer exist. Based on your logic the most popular song of all time is "Never Gonna Give You Up". And the most popular video game console of 2014 is the SNES, because it has the biggest game library.
What does the source being freely available have to do with this? How is that supposed to have any bearing on market pressures?
If they are a publicly traded, for profit company, they are absolutely subject to market pressures. If they are simply for profit they are indirectly subject to market pressures. If they are a non-profit entity, market pressures is a meaningless concept.
I am not exactly sure what what Mozilla is as Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, but Mozilla Corporation is for profit; And I am not sure which controls what or how that makes any sense (sounds like a sneaky way to avoid taxes and get cheap labour).
Privacy, even the IT admin cannot have access, and no system IT breach should leave it vulnerable.
This way, yes it is a pain in the ass and easy to lose, but for someone to leak it it requires someone to be in the room in person (and there is no copy paste all confidential reports to some thumb drive, as the confidential stuff is stored in different ways in different rooms all over campus).
Bad news most likely on this front. I have worked University IT, and I can guarantee they are going to have problems.
For one, no matter how many layers of backups you have, when you are working with a bunch of 90 year old academics, they will always find a way to miss every single one.
And more grievous, Universities tend to have important data that absolutely cannot be backed up in any normal way. Data that is legally obligated to stay on one specific computer in one specific room and never leave; under penalty of legal action.
This is University. Based on my experience with University IT, there will be loads and loads of important data that you are legally obligated to NOT do that to. It cannot leave one specific room, in any form.
Normally, the computers are still contacted to the network and the Internet, but everyone using them must know NOT to copy any of these files off of C.
To just tell the perspective employer that you have the skill, and learn it if you get the job.
That is tech. It takes a lot of time and effort to get good at programming; No one can know all languages, but it only takes about a week to be moderately proficient at any single one. When you are hiring a new programmer, do you really want to hire some JS code monkey (even if that is the only language you currently need developers for), or do you want to hire an experienced software developer who has the ability to rapidly learn any language.
Not too sure about this. I do not know the statistics, but all competent thieves know how to handle dogs, even packs of big dogs are no trouble for the determined thief. Sometimes in fact is is better to go with the tiny loud ones.
But I hear people really interested in protecting their shit are getting Emus, Emus are very territorial, and no one comes prepared to fight off a hyper aggressive 200 pound turkey (which can outrun them 3 times over). They also survive very well after getting shot, apparently, for some reason.
Though that does give me some ideas. What about installing a bunch of bright red lasers all over your house. They don't have to do anything, probably scare the thief away just with their presence.
Ya, and far more of those games that we never patched did not need patches because they got enough QA to produce a stable playable product before launch.
I completely disagree. The reason I use a OS is because its features work and it doe snot crash all the time, I could not care less if it were 1% more secure.
Ya, that is what I was thinking. There is like 4 billion people in villages without power, let alone currency, in the world. They obviously do not have mobile phones. Let alone babies, who since they cannot speak obviously do not own a mobile phone (I doubt that the ownership of mobile phones for the 1-12 demographic is very high at all) [and this is a very significant portion of the population].
I have no idea how many phones are currently activated, but I know the user base cannot be much over 50% of the current world population.
The difference is that Google is not media. They are not offering you an above board opinion, they are passing themselves off as a library of knowledge. But they have the power to easily be an opinion based advise service.
It sounds like these London Black Cabbys have been pretty much replaced by UPSes. Why does anyone still care about making them memorise every street of London anymore?
Take 2 of them, a few programmers and developers, and improve on current GPS tech to make an app that can navigate through London with the same precision as these cabbys, and update it with traffic conditions constantly.
And they have no way of knowing that the restaurant they just waked into charges 150% more than one down the street and is considered one of the worst restaurants in town.
So...
If it were really that bad Uber would become infamous with travel guides/agents and tourists would learn that you just never use Uber.
I think the problem there might be more with the local law enforcement. 99.999% of society does not undergo background tests and yet do not go around killing and raping to make a little extra on the side. What is so unique about cabbies that that they will do so, if they are not super heavily regulated?
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Well broadly similar, but isn't it also a MMO game. Plus all the destructible environment stuff.
Been meaning to give it a try, but last I heard it was still in beta. But it has been a while since I checked.
It already has, it is called Retrovirus.
Well a GPS does not give it to you unless you know how to read.
Also, I have seen many maps with "- You are Here", markers. But they tend to have a more limited range than the average GPS.
A map gives you a position on a globe.
It still can be. I have a tech friend who used to work for a company (about 4 years ago) that brought in kegs at lunch.
Illegal is not a possible outcome of the marketplace. You don't seem to understand what that concept is.
If it is a for profit prison, this actually would be showing pirated movies for profit.
Collections of custom cubes sounds pretty cult to me.
Actually that is an indicator of how cult it is.
There are loads of things with huge cult following that no longer exist. Based on your logic the most popular song of all time is "Never Gonna Give You Up".
And the most popular video game console of 2014 is the SNES, because it has the biggest game library.
You used to see them everywhere, not really the case for the last decade or two.
You cannot compare the Rubik's cube to Barbie or Play-Doh on that front.
What does the source being freely available have to do with this? How is that supposed to have any bearing on market pressures?
If they are a publicly traded, for profit company, they are absolutely subject to market pressures.
If they are simply for profit they are indirectly subject to market pressures.
If they are a non-profit entity, market pressures is a meaningless concept.
I am not exactly sure what what Mozilla is as Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, but Mozilla Corporation is for profit; And I am not sure which controls what or how that makes any sense (sounds like a sneaky way to avoid taxes and get cheap labour).
Privacy, even the IT admin cannot have access, and no system IT breach should leave it vulnerable.
This way, yes it is a pain in the ass and easy to lose, but for someone to leak it it requires someone to be in the room in person (and there is no copy paste all confidential reports to some thumb drive, as the confidential stuff is stored in different ways in different rooms all over campus).
Bad news most likely on this front. I have worked University IT, and I can guarantee they are going to have problems.
For one, no matter how many layers of backups you have, when you are working with a bunch of 90 year old academics, they will always find a way to miss every single one.
And more grievous, Universities tend to have important data that absolutely cannot be backed up in any normal way. Data that is legally obligated to stay on one specific computer in one specific room and never leave; under penalty of legal action.
This is University. Based on my experience with University IT, there will be loads and loads of important data that you are legally obligated to NOT do that to. It cannot leave one specific room, in any form.
Normally, the computers are still contacted to the network and the Internet, but everyone using them must know NOT to copy any of these files off of C.
To just tell the perspective employer that you have the skill, and learn it if you get the job.
That is tech. It takes a lot of time and effort to get good at programming; No one can know all languages, but it only takes about a week to be moderately proficient at any single one. When you are hiring a new programmer, do you really want to hire some JS code monkey (even if that is the only language you currently need developers for), or do you want to hire an experienced software developer who has the ability to rapidly learn any language.
Not too sure about this. I do not know the statistics, but all competent thieves know how to handle dogs, even packs of big dogs are no trouble for the determined thief. Sometimes in fact is is better to go with the tiny loud ones.
But I hear people really interested in protecting their shit are getting Emus, Emus are very territorial, and no one comes prepared to fight off a hyper aggressive 200 pound turkey (which can outrun them 3 times over). They also survive very well after getting shot, apparently, for some reason.
Though that does give me some ideas. What about installing a bunch of bright red lasers all over your house. They don't have to do anything, probably scare the thief away just with their presence.
Ya, and far more of those games that we never patched did not need patches because they got enough QA to produce a stable playable product before launch.
I completely disagree. The reason I use a OS is because its features work and it doe snot crash all the time, I could not care less if it were 1% more secure.
Ya, that is what I was thinking.
There is like 4 billion people in villages without power, let alone currency, in the world. They obviously do not have mobile phones.
Let alone babies, who since they cannot speak obviously do not own a mobile phone (I doubt that the ownership of mobile phones for the 1-12 demographic is very high at all) [and this is a very significant portion of the population].
I have no idea how many phones are currently activated, but I know the user base cannot be much over 50% of the current world population.
The difference is that Google is not media.
They are not offering you an above board opinion, they are passing themselves off as a library of knowledge. But they have the power to easily be an opinion based advise service.
It sounds like these London Black Cabbys have been pretty much replaced by UPSes. Why does anyone still care about making them memorise every street of London anymore?
Take 2 of them, a few programmers and developers, and improve on current GPS tech to make an app that can navigate through London with the same precision as these cabbys, and update it with traffic conditions constantly.
And they have no way of knowing that the restaurant they just waked into charges 150% more than one down the street and is considered one of the worst restaurants in town.
So...
If it were really that bad Uber would become infamous with travel guides/agents and tourists would learn that you just never use Uber.
I think the problem there might be more with the local law enforcement. 99.999% of society does not undergo background tests and yet do not go around killing and raping to make a little extra on the side. What is so unique about cabbies that that they will do so, if they are not super heavily regulated?
OK, Show me one part of the brain that is not just (chemical) wires and electrical current.