I do not think this is AWS fault in any way, I do however think there are problems. You have a company that has one or many VPC and employees are being told the "we have an extended LAN there", EC2 "public" follows these rules (confusing that you open port access with a warning to anyone being VPC) while an S3 bucket does not (so same warning, this time it is the world).
Many organizations have VPCs and any average person might think a setting of public means it is public within that context, not to the entire net. Am I wrong here or is a S3 bucket made public not to the world but to VPC. I tend to be careful, but cloud vendors really could improve this by making anything visible only to company VPC unless special effort is shown. I however do not think that this is an AWS fault in any way. Anyone responsible would test this before dumping a DB there.
From Finland. Here taxi drivers are educated in their profession, cars less than 5 years old and smoking in the car does not exist. Oh and we usually never tip.
Background, I'm from Finland and I have a close friend who is a taxi driver.
Here the availability and the waiting time of "real" taxis is usually not an issue. Not even sure if Uber exists in my city. I do however see that there is a huge disconnect between what taxis are (and are obliged to) and what the general public perceives and this is part of the reason why people might like Uber while complaining about taxi prices. Here taxis are not one big company, even if all taxis are similar and identical pricing - they usually are 1-4 car companies that have astronomical insurance costs and have to pay copyright mafia if radio is on. The insurance cost is a major factor why they are more expensive than Uber, also something most customers never know about unless they are in an accident where they get hurt or belongings damaged. In these cases the customer is fully covered unlike in some Uber car. In addition the small taxi companies have to have their work healthcare, retirement payments and other things in order.
The amount of taxis the taxis companies cannot affect even if they wanted - there is a certain amount of licenses for a certain area (by gov. or municipality, not sure which).
Because how the system works, there unfortunately also lies the reason why there isn't a fancy, with serious money developed app for phones.
Tl;dr Drivers and customers are protected in "real" taxis.
Back in the 90-ies I used to run a popular BBS, I tried to go modern and multitask with win31 instead of desqview. Users forced me to change and I went for OS/2 which worked wonders (maybe - 92).. What I remember to this day is that some stuff just was much more logical in OS/2 than still in this day in windows (DnD, drag on appicon etc.)
Really liked it and it is nice to see that its legacy is living on.
And the scariest part is that the parent got modded +5 insightful instead of funny.
You shouldn't judge someone before even giving them a chance.
Some time ago I was talking with a girl from china, if you fail a class you are put amongst "the less bright ones" there. She was bright but had had an accident and therefore grades dropped temporary, she got transferred. To get any chance of decent education after that, she had to move to a different country.
This is also true for geothermal, ocean-wave, and bio-fueled energy. All can be generated locally, with local resources.
Ain't seen any geysers around here. And there's a whole state between me and the ocean. Bio-fuels... well, most of the stuff people grow around here, they grow for food. I don't think the little bit of miracle-fuel-plant-of-the-week I could plant on my front lawn would power my heat for the season it takes to grow it, either.
In sweden and increasingly here in Finland, people drill a deep hole (like a well) and have a rod in the hole with a heat-exchanger, pulling heat from the ground to heat the house. Works, even in cold winters - see, you don't need geysers for geothermal energy.
But if we were to generate our energy locally, with renewable resources, not only would we leave a nicer place for our kids, grandkids, and their offspring, we'd also improve our national sovereignty.
Or, we'd shiver in the dark and/or swelter in the heat. Because if it was that easy, it would be done already.
That thing on wheels is uncomfortable, slow, tough to start and needs that stinky liquid - I much rather use my old trustworthy horse.;)
It's called progress, refinement and advancement in technology. We have to start somewhere instead of just dismissing as "if it was easy it would have been done already".
While I understand this and that manufacturers want the WHQL, this does not however entitle them to also label their box ACPI 2.0 (etc.) compliant if it isn't.
Just put WHQL without the ACPI label and perhaps some sharpeyed user will know to steer clear of your product.
IE7's zoom feature also was buggy and ticked a lot of web-developers off. It zoomed everything like it should, except it didn't zoom background images, which often can contain vertical column-lines in a multi-column layout.
And this just might be one of the reasons why so much software is slow as a dog.
How can one expect the developer to have realistic views on how their program runs on the users machines if they have top-of-the-line computers while probably a majority of the users have a few years old box?
No seriously, software patents are a bad idea because software is already covered by copyright. Either copyright or patents, not both. Not to mention that 20 years in the computer industry is like a lifetime or more in other industries.
It should be a sign that something is wrong when every big corp and their grandmother patent everything under the sun "just in case".
Oh, and with software you patent the whole idea, not just one way of implementing it.
Add to the fishyness, if iPhone has 0.12%, where is the Symbian smart-phones which undoubtedly should have a higher percentage than iPhone, if only viewed from units sold (Nokia N and E-series comes to mind). They aren't even on the list..
Sorry, that statistic seems to be just that, statistic. I'm not buying it.
My take would be that they license their toolkits & SDK etc. under this license and propagate this license to projects using these toolchains, so far fine. Now, there is a problem if this is the only way to interface some future Windows, in public it is "open" while still not being at all comaptible with for example GPL or even BSD since it applies only if the underlying system is Windows. So question would become in this scenario; how do projects lika Pidgin etc. that are GPL continue to be multi-platform? Oh and I'm sure MS PR-department would try to spin it in such a way that it is GPL etc. that is problematic and not the "windows system" in their license.
Or I might have it all wrong.
Anyway, I would like to think this is a good start from them, if they just dropped the whole platform thing and made it platform neutral. A revised edition naturally needs to be read and analyzed before use.
To bring in the car analogy, this seems more like making cars and alcohol illegal instead of the act of drunk driving.. Of course driving and drinking everyone knows, so making them illegal would never even come into question.
I didn't intend to imply that I assume or conclude democracy not to be working, but a certain suspicion is always healthy, regardless what country in question.
Another problem with modern cars is that many recommend that you *never* remove all power - ie. to replace the battery, you need to hook the car to another power-source before disconnecting.
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I do not think this is AWS fault in any way, I do however think there are problems. You have a company that has one or many VPC and employees are being told the "we have an extended LAN there", EC2 "public" follows these rules (confusing that you open port access with a warning to anyone being VPC) while an S3 bucket does not (so same warning, this time it is the world).
Many organizations have VPCs and any average person might think a setting of public means it is public within that context, not to the entire net. Am I wrong here or is a S3 bucket made public not to the world but to VPC. I tend to be careful, but cloud vendors really could improve this by making anything visible only to company VPC unless special effort is shown. I however do not think that this is an AWS fault in any way.
Anyone responsible would test this before dumping a DB there.
From Finland. Here taxi drivers are educated in their profession, cars less than 5 years old and smoking in the car does not exist. Oh and we usually never tip.
Additionally the all the drivers have a quite tough test before getting accepted where they have to know where over thousand or so streets are.
Background, I'm from Finland and I have a close friend who is a taxi driver.
Here the availability and the waiting time of "real" taxis is usually not an issue. Not even sure if Uber exists in my city. I do however see that there is a huge disconnect between what taxis are (and are obliged to) and what the general public perceives and this is part of the reason why people might like Uber while complaining about taxi prices.
Here taxis are not one big company, even if all taxis are similar and identical pricing - they usually are 1-4 car companies that have astronomical insurance costs and have to pay copyright mafia if radio is on. The insurance cost is a major factor why they are more expensive than Uber, also something most customers never know about unless they are in an accident where they get hurt or belongings damaged. In these cases the customer is fully covered unlike in some Uber car.
In addition the small taxi companies have to have their work healthcare, retirement payments and other things in order.
The amount of taxis the taxis companies cannot affect even if they wanted - there is a certain amount of licenses for a certain area (by gov. or municipality, not sure which).
Because how the system works, there unfortunately also lies the reason why there isn't a fancy, with serious money developed app for phones.
Tl;dr Drivers and customers are protected in "real" taxis.
Back in the 90-ies I used to run a popular BBS, I tried to go modern and multitask with win31 instead of desqview. Users forced me to change and I went for OS/2 which worked wonders (maybe - 92).. What I remember to this day is that some stuff just was much more logical in OS/2 than still in this day in windows (DnD, drag on appicon etc.)
Really liked it and it is nice to see that its legacy is living on.
And the scariest part is that the parent got modded +5 insightful instead of funny.
You shouldn't judge someone before even giving them a chance.
Some time ago I was talking with a girl from china, if you fail a class you are put amongst "the less bright ones" there. She was bright but had had an accident and therefore grades dropped temporary, she got transferred. To get any chance of decent education after that, she had to move to a different country.
I can assure you that Finland and Sweden do not have any oil resources, so for these two countries your oil point is moot.
Owned - no. Ridden I have. I was however refering to new and different
In sweden and increasingly here in Finland, people drill a deep hole (like a well) and have a rod in the hole with a heat-exchanger, pulling heat from the ground to heat the house. Works, even in cold winters - see, you don't need geysers for geothermal energy.
That thing on wheels is uncomfortable, slow, tough to start and needs that stinky liquid - I much rather use my old trustworthy horse. ;)
It's called progress, refinement and advancement in technology. We have to start somewhere instead of just dismissing as "if it was easy it would have been done already".
While I understand this and that manufacturers want the WHQL, this does not however entitle them to also label their box ACPI 2.0 (etc.) compliant if it isn't.
Just put WHQL without the ACPI label and perhaps some sharpeyed user will know to steer clear of your product.
IE7's zoom feature also was buggy and ticked a lot of web-developers off.
It zoomed everything like it should, except it didn't zoom background images, which often can contain vertical column-lines in a multi-column layout.
Some "theme" of Enlightenment WM used a pie menu quite some years ago. Ms is definetly not the first to try a pie menu.
And this just might be one of the reasons why so much software is slow as a dog.
How can one expect the developer to have realistic views on how their program runs on the users machines if they have top-of-the-line computers while probably a majority of the users have a few years old box?
I believe movies should be patentable too.
No seriously, software patents are a bad idea because software is already covered by copyright. Either copyright or patents, not both. Not to mention that 20 years in the computer industry is like a lifetime or more in other industries.
It should be a sign that something is wrong when every big corp and their grandmother patent everything under the sun "just in case".
Oh, and with software you patent the whole idea, not just one way of implementing it.
Duh.. Helsinki.
Why cannot Slashdot have a edit button that works for a couple of minutes after posting, like in many forums.
Halsinki, as in Finland, FYI.
Hmm, you must have a lot of memory then since you just a few posts ago said you have a 100Gb DB?
Add to the fishyness, if iPhone has 0.12%, where is the Symbian smart-phones which undoubtedly should have a higher percentage than iPhone, if only viewed from units sold (Nokia N and E-series comes to mind). They aren't even on the list..
Sorry, that statistic seems to be just that, statistic. I'm not buying it.
My take would be that they license their toolkits & SDK etc. under this license and propagate this license to projects using these toolchains, so far fine.
Now, there is a problem if this is the only way to interface some future Windows, in public it is "open" while still not being at all comaptible with for example GPL or even BSD since it applies only if the underlying system is Windows. So question would become in this scenario; how do projects lika Pidgin etc. that are GPL continue to be multi-platform? Oh and I'm sure MS PR-department would try to spin it in such a way that it is GPL etc. that is problematic and not the "windows system" in their license.
Or I might have it all wrong.
Anyway, I would like to think this is a good start from them, if they just dropped the whole platform thing and made it platform neutral. A revised edition naturally needs to be read and analyzed before use.
To bring in the car analogy, this seems more like making cars and alcohol illegal instead of the act of drunk driving..
Of course driving and drinking everyone knows, so making them illegal would never even come into question.
Uh, it needs a minimum of 7 cores as well?
I didn't intend to imply that I assume or conclude democracy not to be working, but a certain suspicion is always healthy, regardless what country in question.
Another problem with modern cars is that many recommend that you *never* remove all power - ie. to replace the battery, you need to hook the car to another power-source before disconnecting.