They want you to buy a new iPhone every 2 years, for everyone in your family. That's better for Apple than buying a $5000 workstation every 5 years.
I still use my 2009 Mac Pro as my main system. I've upgraded everything over the years, include the CPUs (3.2GHz) and GPU (GeForce 980 Ti). It still chugs along OK for games when I boot Windows 7 on it, at least the games I play. Eventually the power supply will pop and it'll not be worth maintaining, but I'm hoping to squeeze 10 years of useful computation out of this system.
What you just described is blockchain, ie what Bitcoin is built on. Except instead of central control to only the establishment it's distributed to anyone who wants to participate, so it's fairer to everyone involved.
It most certainly is not what I described. My key point is old fashion transnational banking, through a central trusted authority.
You form all of your opinions based on feelings?
That's precisely what opinions are, that's why the words can be interchangeable in English rhetoric.
The problem is centralised currency and the issues of trust and control and distribution.
Some may view this as a flaw. Others view it as an asset. Most people mainly care if they can use their account to purchase goods and services without exorbitant fees, to that end there are many possible solutions. I propose one that does not involve revolution.
VISA, MasterCard, and AMEX. They should work out an uninsured transaction system where they charge some ultra low fee (5c? 1c?) for transactions below a certain amount ($50? $10?). Central authority that most people agree to trust and is motivated by profit to keep things running. Traceable and global.
I feel that BTC and others are perhaps a solution in search of a problem. But I also admit that banks and credit card companies have not been quick to adapt to the nature of a global commercial Internet.
Dividend paying blue chip stock can be a good choice for those who are into playing the IPO lottery. Cryptocurrency is just more of this short term, big payoff sort of thinking that leads us into these bubbles. And low-information investors are the key to making a bubble work, there are some people who profit very greatly in during these bubbles and a lot of people who lose a little bit of money playing at investment. Bubbles will keep happening because the losses for the millions of small investors aren't so large that they learn their lesson, and the gains are too big for the strategic people keep at the scam.
Gold is not so bad because it doesn't go to 0. But if for people who sink their retirement into gold only to have it worth half as much by the time they need it have hurt themselves. And more importantly, they could have doubled their money [over decades] by investing more wisely. Shares on the other hand, I've ridden them to the bottom. Once they are off the list they are a real pain to sell.
Real estate is not too bad either, as demand generally goes up and supply is generally fixed. Or in some regions may even shrink as land grants and eminent domain take land off the market permanently. You can still lose a lot of money if you buy some property only to have it surveyed as flood zone a decade later.
Do you think perhaps they volunteers to avoid going to the front lines? The concept of choice during a war is not the same concept we enjoy. It's difficult to take statements from even half of the participants and conclude that all of them desired to do it. I guess call me skeptical of wide sweeping generalizations.
If the copyright infringement is willful, the maximum penalty increases to $150,000 per violation.
Why not use MPAA and RIAA tactics against Intel? They can pay $150k per CPU they shipped in the last several years. If the Minix copyright holders are feeling nice, they can accept a lesser settlement instead.
I do a few $1 pledges as well. And I get a single web comic or a D&D map in exchange, depending on the creator. A whole dollar is a lot to pay for a web comic, but it does help keep it going and reduces the reliance on advertising on the creator's site. And the dungeon maps eventually go on sale at DriveThru RPG for around $1 each, but that site keeps 35%. And yes, that works out that Patreon's new prices is not a better deal than a store front.
I'll give you a concrete example. Having 444 people contributing a $1 or more per month for what started as a hobby is pretty significant. The real meat and potatoes is when he has enough material to release a new book (electronic and print-on-demand). Having people supporting him along the entire process is helpful and your retort of "big spender here" shows that you aren't really clued into what is going on.
Maybe that's fair, but it starts a bad precedent for everyone to sink to Amazon's level. In the end I think its the end-users who get screwed. I'm not really into determining who started the fight, I think we should hold any company that participates in these tactics accountable, no matter what their reasoning.
Hrm. That's a good point. I was thinking maybe ear plugs or white noise and see if areas of the brain light up when shown the image. A perfect experiment is likely not possible.
There are far more photographers than Unix admins out there. I'd wager far more people in video, too.
I suspect the numbers are similar, but I don't really know. Google says about 56k professional photographers in the world, and I have no data on the number of Unix admins (I'm not a Unix admin, at least not in the last decade. But I still need Unix for my job). There are about 7 million tech workers in the US, but again I don't know how many of them use Unix, if I did I might be able to come up with a ball park estimate of the number of Unix admins needed to support them.
I'm willing to concede that you're right. But not by a large enough margin to really impact the original argument. And what I wasn't clear on is that while there are some jobs that require Unix (and by extension there are other jobs that require Windows). There are lots of times where people don't really need anything specific to either Windows or Linux and can be effective in either environment. (again, sorry if this is moving the goal posts. I was thinking it, but I realize now that I didn't state it)
I think I experienced something, but I wouldn't describe it as hearing anything. So maybe it's hard for me to relate. I guess I'm looking for some kind of metric to quantify other people's experiences. That's different than looking for an explanation.
I'm guessing you don't do heavy video or photo editing.
It's a safe guess as most people do not. There are a thousand other jobs.
My job requires Linux, so obviously Windows is a bad choice for me. But I am not going to apply my own requirements broadly to all people, that would be silly.
A service I can see freely on any PC and nearly any device is now being blocked on certain devices from a certain company. So much for an open internet, we're moving to vertical stack monopolies and soon into internet isolationism.
"I do use APK's host file" by OrangeTide on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:21AM (#55657921)
Aww.. you do care what I think. All this time I thought you hated me. I'm glad we can finally behave like reasonable adults without threats of violence performed by certain military people on your request.
Because the Spaceballs "merchandising" scene always had a ring of truth to it. It's not hard to see how much toy sales drove many of these franchises. From pretty much anything Disney, to Star Wars, to Transformers.
Also, I love the name of Musk's company. I LOL'd the first time I found out about The Boring Company.
Dell is charging anywhere from $20.92 to $40 to disable Intel's Management Engine.
A fast ARM SoC would add $20-$40 to the BOM price of a product. The slightly improved graphics for laptops is around $40 (maybe closer to $45). There are probably lots of things of value that could have been added to the system instead of IME only to have each vendor go to the effort to disable it for customers that really don't want it.
I think it's a bit suspect that Intel went to the effort to create and hide ME, when it doesn't appear to offer value to the end user. I only have read lots of hand waiving excuses about managing optimal performance or memory controller and related buses. That's somewhat plausible because I've seen 8051 and other microcontrollers used to initialize and manage PowerPC based systems some years ago. (Apple)
Facebook, Laravel, Own/Nextcloud, Wikipedia, Wordpress,... more than 80% of the web runs on PHP.
I've heard of maybe half of those, I didn't realize all of them were still around.
I remember letting people run php on my shell/web server some 15 years ago. And how quickly the default installation was hacked and webpages were defaced. For me it wasn't worth the effort necessary to set it up properly.
I suspect after several years the games, if unmaintained to the latest whiz-bang JS frameworks, will bitrot and newer browsers will cease supporting older javascript feature. I've seen this happen before when JavaScript was younger. And not much has been done to address the interface and feature stability of the language. We'll still be at the whims of the policies set by the top web browsers.
Maybe a little game isn't worth having 20 years later. But there are plenty of cases where old C/C++ code is brought back to life. And where 10, 20 or even 30 year old binaries are successfully ran in an emulator or in a Win95-compatibilty box. We are not likely to see
Back to the original topic, I think something like Emscripten (which I've used to run some C-based GUI libraries in a web browser). is very valuable for the long term use of a project. Writing things in an ISO standardized language that changes slowly every 10 years seems like a better play than an ECMA standardized language that changes significantly every year. I understand that JavaScript is still new and evolving, but we've had it in one form or another for over 20 years. At what point can I write a piece of software for the Web that will last? Perhaps never?
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I feel like running a Mac has been nothing but a series of compromises.
They want you to buy a new iPhone every 2 years, for everyone in your family. That's better for Apple than buying a $5000 workstation every 5 years.
I still use my 2009 Mac Pro as my main system. I've upgraded everything over the years, include the CPUs (3.2GHz) and GPU (GeForce 980 Ti). It still chugs along OK for games when I boot Windows 7 on it, at least the games I play. Eventually the power supply will pop and it'll not be worth maintaining, but I'm hoping to squeeze 10 years of useful computation out of this system.
What you just described is blockchain, ie what Bitcoin is built on. Except instead of central control to only the establishment it's distributed to anyone who wants to participate, so it's fairer to everyone involved.
It most certainly is not what I described. My key point is old fashion transnational banking, through a central trusted authority.
You form all of your opinions based on feelings?
That's precisely what opinions are, that's why the words can be interchangeable in English rhetoric.
The problem is centralised currency and the issues of trust and control and distribution.
Some may view this as a flaw. Others view it as an asset. Most people mainly care if they can use their account to purchase goods and services without exorbitant fees, to that end there are many possible solutions. I propose one that does not involve revolution.
VISA, MasterCard, and AMEX. They should work out an uninsured transaction system where they charge some ultra low fee (5c? 1c?) for transactions below a certain amount ($50? $10?). Central authority that most people agree to trust and is motivated by profit to keep things running. Traceable and global.
I feel that BTC and others are perhaps a solution in search of a problem. But I also admit that banks and credit card companies have not been quick to adapt to the nature of a global commercial Internet.
Dividend paying blue chip stock can be a good choice for those who are into playing the IPO lottery. Cryptocurrency is just more of this short term, big payoff sort of thinking that leads us into these bubbles. And low-information investors are the key to making a bubble work, there are some people who profit very greatly in during these bubbles and a lot of people who lose a little bit of money playing at investment. Bubbles will keep happening because the losses for the millions of small investors aren't so large that they learn their lesson, and the gains are too big for the strategic people keep at the scam.
Gold is not so bad because it doesn't go to 0. But if for people who sink their retirement into gold only to have it worth half as much by the time they need it have hurt themselves. And more importantly, they could have doubled their money [over decades] by investing more wisely. Shares on the other hand, I've ridden them to the bottom. Once they are off the list they are a real pain to sell.
Real estate is not too bad either, as demand generally goes up and supply is generally fixed. Or in some regions may even shrink as land grants and eminent domain take land off the market permanently. You can still lose a lot of money if you buy some property only to have it surveyed as flood zone a decade later.
This is Slashdot, any ill you can imagine can be traced back to systemd.
And nobody cares. Such things are unimportant when it comes to making this the year of the Linux desktop.
Sorry, this is all theoretical. There is no way that Andrew S. Tanenbaum would move ahead with any sort of legal action.[1]
Do you think perhaps they volunteers to avoid going to the front lines? The concept of choice during a war is not the same concept we enjoy. It's difficult to take statements from even half of the participants and conclude that all of them desired to do it. I guess call me skeptical of wide sweeping generalizations.
If the copyright infringement is willful, the maximum penalty increases to $150,000 per violation.
Why not use MPAA and RIAA tactics against Intel? They can pay $150k per CPU they shipped in the last several years. If the Minix copyright holders are feeling nice, they can accept a lesser settlement instead.
That's how the law works.
Feeding slaves is expensive, unless they learn to eat coal.
I do a few $1 pledges as well. And I get a single web comic or a D&D map in exchange, depending on the creator. A whole dollar is a lot to pay for a web comic, but it does help keep it going and reduces the reliance on advertising on the creator's site. And the dungeon maps eventually go on sale at DriveThru RPG for around $1 each, but that site keeps 35%. And yes, that works out that Patreon's new prices is not a better deal than a store front.
I'll give you a concrete example. Having 444 people contributing a $1 or more per month for what started as a hobby is pretty significant. The real meat and potatoes is when he has enough material to release a new book (electronic and print-on-demand). Having people supporting him along the entire process is helpful and your retort of "big spender here" shows that you aren't really clued into what is going on.
Maybe that's fair, but it starts a bad precedent for everyone to sink to Amazon's level. In the end I think its the end-users who get screwed.
I'm not really into determining who started the fight, I think we should hold any company that participates in these tactics accountable, no matter what their reasoning.
Hrm. That's a good point. I was thinking maybe ear plugs or white noise and see if areas of the brain light up when shown the image. A perfect experiment is likely not possible.
There are far more photographers than Unix admins out there. I'd wager far more people in video, too.
I suspect the numbers are similar, but I don't really know. Google says about 56k professional photographers in the world, and I have no data on the number of Unix admins (I'm not a Unix admin, at least not in the last decade. But I still need Unix for my job). There are about 7 million tech workers in the US, but again I don't know how many of them use Unix, if I did I might be able to come up with a ball park estimate of the number of Unix admins needed to support them.
I'm willing to concede that you're right. But not by a large enough margin to really impact the original argument. And what I wasn't clear on is that while there are some jobs that require Unix (and by extension there are other jobs that require Windows). There are lots of times where people don't really need anything specific to either Windows or Linux and can be effective in either environment. (again, sorry if this is moving the goal posts. I was thinking it, but I realize now that I didn't state it)
Well I'm not sure Amazon's search is really a major player. (actually I can't even find the site to put a link, have they been shut down?)
I think I experienced something, but I wouldn't describe it as hearing anything. So maybe it's hard for me to relate. I guess I'm looking for some kind of metric to quantify other people's experiences. That's different than looking for an explanation.
I'm guessing you don't do heavy video or photo editing.
It's a safe guess as most people do not. There are a thousand other jobs.
My job requires Linux, so obviously Windows is a bad choice for me. But I am not going to apply my own requirements broadly to all people, that would be silly.
A service I can see freely on any PC and nearly any device is now being blocked on certain devices from a certain company. So much for an open internet, we're moving to vertical stack monopolies and soon into internet isolationism.
Maybe an MRI or brain scan would provide something more conclusive than people self-reporting.
"I do use APK's host file" by OrangeTide on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:21AM (#55657921)
Aww.. you do care what I think. All this time I thought you hated me. I'm glad we can finally behave like reasonable adults without threats of violence performed by certain military people on your request.
Because the Spaceballs "merchandising" scene always had a ring of truth to it. It's not hard to see how much toy sales drove many of these franchises. From pretty much anything Disney, to Star Wars, to Transformers.
Also, I love the name of Musk's company. I LOL'd the first time I found out about The Boring Company.
Dell is charging anywhere from $20.92 to $40 to disable Intel's Management Engine.
A fast ARM SoC would add $20-$40 to the BOM price of a product. The slightly improved graphics for laptops is around $40 (maybe closer to $45). There are probably lots of things of value that could have been added to the system instead of IME only to have each vendor go to the effort to disable it for customers that really don't want it.
I think it's a bit suspect that Intel went to the effort to create and hide ME, when it doesn't appear to offer value to the end user. I only have read lots of hand waiving excuses about managing optimal performance or memory controller and related buses. That's somewhat plausible because I've seen 8051 and other microcontrollers used to initialize and manage PowerPC based systems some years ago. (Apple)
Facebook, Laravel, Own/Nextcloud, Wikipedia, Wordpress, ... more than 80% of the web runs on PHP.
I've heard of maybe half of those, I didn't realize all of them were still around.
I remember letting people run php on my shell/web server some 15 years ago. And how quickly the default installation was hacked and webpages were defaced. For me it wasn't worth the effort necessary to set it up properly.
I suspect after several years the games, if unmaintained to the latest whiz-bang JS frameworks, will bitrot and newer browsers will cease supporting older javascript feature. I've seen this happen before when JavaScript was younger. And not much has been done to address the interface and feature stability of the language. We'll still be at the whims of the policies set by the top web browsers.
Maybe a little game isn't worth having 20 years later. But there are plenty of cases where old C/C++ code is brought back to life. And where 10, 20 or even 30 year old binaries are successfully ran in an emulator or in a Win95-compatibilty box. We are not likely to see
Back to the original topic, I think something like Emscripten (which I've used to run some C-based GUI libraries in a web browser). is very valuable for the long term use of a project. Writing things in an ISO standardized language that changes slowly every 10 years seems like a better play than an ECMA standardized language that changes significantly every year. I understand that JavaScript is still new and evolving, but we've had it in one form or another for over 20 years. At what point can I write a piece of software for the Web that will last? Perhaps never?