It is the typical "outsourcing cycle". The executives who could show on paper that it would be cheaper to move all hosting to a third party cloud provider have now all moved on from their posts of a couple of years ago, and a bunch of new executives can now show on paper that it will be cheaper to host it in-house.
I've always held the view that outsourcing never makes sense on a large scale- if you're a big company with a lot of hosting needs, it's probably cheaper to hire a team of full time employees and purchase the hardware yourself- after all, Amazon doesn't have a magic machine which makes salaries or hardware cheaper than they are for everyone else. If you a small shop, where your requirements would be for a tiny team and underused hardware, that's when it makes sense to pay the experts to do it for you.
White Supremacists and Christian Fundamentalists are the other two categories, and the biggest home grown ones. Think the Norwegian massacre and tell me it couldn't happen in the US.
With organized crime groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the downright terrifying militia movement, combined with the frequency of lone wolf killing sprees, America has far more to worry about from the home crowd than it does from abroad.
Without a controller. Add $50 for a controller and the Ouya is the cheaper of the two. And the Ouya controller is a fancy one with a built-in touch pad- not easy to buy on the open market.
I see a lot of computers (desk- and laptop) for sale in the UK from a company called Zoostorm with no OS. I haven't bought one yet (not had cause to), but I intend to give them a try next time I want a new Linux box. The No OS laptops look particularly appealing. They're jaw-droppingly low priced.
(I am in no-way paid to represent them by the by- purchase at your own risk etc.)
In brief: Jolla = A company formed by ex-Nokia employees to carry on their Linux development after the switch to Windows Phone. Sailfish OS = Their Linux distro for phones and tablets derived from Nokia's Meego, via a community project called Mer. Wayland = A potential replacement for the venerable X11. Android = Linux-based mobile OS which is very popular. ODM = Original Design Manufacturer. A company which designs and makes a product based off of another company's reference material and branding- so Samsung is an ODM of Android phones.
Jolla have ported Wayland to work with Android GPU drivers, in order to remove an obstacle for ODM companies to make Sailfish phones- Wayland being a core part of Sailfish.
What is needed is for an EMPLOYEE STOCK. One that is tied to profits, and is not allowed to be sold on the open markets. Yes, basically, an ESOP. However, they need to make it so that NO employee is allowed to own any public stock in the industry.
What you are describing is a mutual business or workers co-operative; where all employees own a portion of the business, are entitled to vote at AGMs and share in the profit, but the share of ownership is non-transferable- it lasts exactly as long as you are an employee. Additional capital can be raised on the open market as publicly tradeable bonds (such as PIBS), which more or less function as non-voting shares.
This is a sentiment I whole heartedly agree with. Mutual businesses have shown themselves to be (as a rule) more stable and more long-term viable than PLCs time and time again.
Who from? Nobody- not the US, not South Korea, not nobody- wants a war. There's nothing to gain from a war. It would cause devastating loss of life, and there are no strategic resources or whatnot to be had. Although the Southerners would like reunification, they don't want to level half the peninsula over it (and nor do the Northerners). Everyone's much happier playing the waiting game and hoping North Korea sorts itself out somehow (in the exact same way as the USSR and China did, only smaller scale).
The North is just trying to wring concessions out of their international rivals by rattling their sabres and making threats. The international community are just hoping they get bored of it like they always do. Nobody wants the situation to turn violent.
That is essentially the same business model of any free newspaper (such as the London papers Metro or Evening Standard; I'm sure there are examples local to you too). They give the paper away for free, and make money selling space for adverts. The more papers they can give away for free, the more they can charge to advertisers.
If that business model is acceptable for newspapers, it must be acceptable for other "products" too.
You want a bare-bones version of Ubuntu? That's that. If you are venemously anti-Ubuntu then obviously it's not for you, but then that's not something you'd be asking for.
Bin Laden and Castro wouldn't have been able to do what they did if they didn't have the US as the focal point to blame for the problems that they and their people's hate.
Wait, what is Castro supposed to have done comparable to Bin Laden? I mean it's not like I'm defending an undemocratic dictator or anything, but he's not as bad as all that. that Just your common or garden petty dictator. I must have missed the Cuban invasion of the American mainland...
Ah yes, I'm sure Thatcher selling off the UK's water utilities really shook Moscow to its foundations.
Or was it that letting people buy their own Council Houses at a bit of a discount really motivated those lazy East Germans to tear down that wall? I bet they couldn't wait to get a chance to buy a piece of their crumbling tenement (and didn't worry for a moment that perhaps West Germany wouldn't adopt exactly the same policy straight away).
Britain voted her into power again and again. She was chosen by Brits to lead because she was a good leader.
She was chosen by the Brits time and time again because she was very good at playing the politics game. She kept people happy with a string of populist policies, from massive pre-election vote-buying "share giveaways" from selling off National property, to having a good old war with some nasty foreigners over an island no-one had ever heard of before, to letting people buy Council Houses at a large discount to immediately sell on at a massive profit.
While at the same time, she had remarkably low personal opinion poll ratings and her policies were immensely controversial (and remain so here to this day).
So please don't assume that her victories over the lame-duck Labour opposition at the time was some sort of ringing endorsement for her policies; it was just good clever politics. Thatcher's governments were a product of Labour's failings, not of her own brilliance. As is so very often the case with the Conservatives in the post-war period. Just ask Messrs D Cameron and G Brown...
While true, try to look closely at the graph you posted.
In the "bad old days of the unions", manufacturing peaked at 86 on that chart (I can't read what exactly the scale is referring to). Thatcher came to power and the value promptly drops to 70. It takes Thatcher 8 of the 10 years she was in power to recover manufacturing to it's previous point (1988), and it collapses again before she leaves power back to 88- a whole 2 points higher than when she entered office! Wow! All subsequent growth (from the mid-80s point that it was at in both 1979 and 1991 to around 100 where you chart finishes) happened under people who were not her- John Major and Tony Blair.
So according to your chart which you've posted, Thatcher set British manufacturing growth back by 10 years with her policies. Great legacy!
If you put a small toddler in a playpen with a kilo sack of sugar, the child eats all the sugar, and subsequently gets very ill with diabetes, who's to blame? Yes, the child is to blame. But nowhere near as much to blame as the atrociously negligent adult who set the situation up.
If you give every single working class person in Britain (or anywhere) a piece of paper with "IOU £1000" written on it, and you tell them they can either have £1000 to pay their debts right at this exact moment or they can sit on it and it MIGHT, MAYBE be worth more in 5 years (or it could be worth far less), what do you think they're going to do?
It was not a scheme that was ever destined to "open share ownership up tot he masses". It was a vote-buying cash give away resulting in most of our major national infrastructure being owned by foreign companies. Indeed, much of UK's infrastructure is now owned by foreign governments- energy companies like the French state-owned EDF and German RWE (Npower), or in transport the German Deutsche Bahn (Arriva), Dutch NS (Abellio). Progress!
Kickstarter seems to be doing its darndest to revive the Adventure game genre (along with a few other forgotten genres- god game, space sim, etc.).
While the big game developers seem to have almost universally decided to turn into unimaginative Hollywood-style jerks, the indie game industry seems to be having a new renaissance, flush with new engines and tool sets, new distribution channels, and new access to funding. So the bad comes with some good.
If the service "offers POP3 support", which presumably they do, then it is the service supplier's problem. Not the user's fault for using one of the two services on offer which happens to be the less sophisticated one.
And in any case, I've not read anything in this thread or TFA to imply that POP3 users are affected while IMAP ones aren't. The GGP points out a way in which the problem would occur for users of both technologies. If I use an IMAP client to "delete" an email on one day, there is zero good reason for it to reappear in my inbox a year later. That is a system error pure and simple.
Neither of these cases is necessarily the fault of Sky, sometimes it's just not possible to reliably import this information between mail servers, and in the case of POP3 users, it's just down to the fact that POP3 is not designed for leaving read messages on the server for multiple clients to pick up.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Sky is one of the UK's biggest ISPs, and they're moving their email provider from probably the biggest webmail provider in the world (Google) to probably the second largest (Yahoo). Are you really telling me that it was beyond the abilities of any of these three parties to a) do a test migration to check for serious errors, and b) make sure their migration methodology/toolset was compatible with the two technologies at hand before making the move?
To let such a huge and obvious public-facing error go live to so many people smacks of absolutely shocking incompetence.
People still ask me "what's the best smartphone". People like my parents and other relatives. If I say "the new HTC is better than the new LG", or "don't get Windows Phone, it's terrible", there's a serious chance they'll listen to me, even if they didn't understand the reasons I was explaining to them.
This is basically what killed Vista. Every "techie" in the world worth his salt told his friends "don't get Vista, it's terrible". And the impression stuck. (It was true, of course, but most non-techies wouldn't have figured it out very quickly on their own). That very much didn't happen with Windows 7, and that went much better for Microsoft.
From my personal experience: - When my parents' desktop broke once and for all, I built them a replacement from the various spares-and-repairs I had in my cupboard, with Xubuntu on it. They used it happily for around 1 year until they bought their official replacement, a Windows 7 PC. - When my dad's laptop was virused last, I set him up a vanilla Ubuntu dual boot, set it to the "default", and told him to use that for anything except work (for which he requires specific software). He uses it almost exclusively now. Says he feels much safer doing internet banking and shopping on it. The dual booting doesn't phase him by the by- he just knows that when the menu comes up when he turns it on, he has 8 seconds to select "Windows" if he wants it. - My grandparents in law (who are 80+) wanted their first ever computer, so I reformatted an old Windows XP computer I had lying around with vanilla Ubuntu. They're happy with it. Someone recently gave them a laptop with (pirated) Vista on it in addition and they couldn't run it at all; they asked me to "make it work like the desktop one does".
Obviously some people will have more barriers to entry than others, but in my experience it has been pretty painless. Nobody seems to mind unless they have a specific piece of software to use- which aside from workers or gamers, is almost no-one.
Essentially, it's the difference between GNU/Linux ("Linux") and Dalvik/Linux ("Android"). Seeing as RMS lost the whole "GNU/Linux not Linux" debate some years ago, Linux is now synonymous with GNU/Linux. Therefore people say Dalvik/Linux (or Java/Linux?) "isn't real Linux".
What actually is a "gaming laptop"? One with an i7 processor and a non-Intel video card? That's not that difficult to buy. A quick search of Amazon shows me 96 results for just that. 31 of them have a 17" or greater screen size too. Pretty much every PC manufacturer is represented there.
No judgement on price though; the ones I can see look fair enough at £500-£700.
The difference is that you can't install any legacy or mainstream software on the RT version, and what you can install all has to come through the Microsoft "App Store"- so no more downloading random bits of software from anywhere you like on the internet.
Both of those things suck quite a bit on their own without even needing to invoke the horridness of Metro. Yes it's comparable with the experience on an iPad I suppose, but certainly not what someone would expect if they were buying what they thought was normal "Windows".
A dowser would probably reply that it has something to do with water naturally forming along ley lines or collecting in places with unique magnetic fields, or some other hokus pokus nonsense.
People relying on "supernatural" powers can always make "supernatural" excuses. Can't "medium" in controlled conditions? It's because the ghosts don't like working in lab conditions. Healing crystals don't work on lab animals? It's because animals lack a chackra.
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It is the typical "outsourcing cycle". The executives who could show on paper that it would be cheaper to move all hosting to a third party cloud provider have now all moved on from their posts of a couple of years ago, and a bunch of new executives can now show on paper that it will be cheaper to host it in-house.
I've always held the view that outsourcing never makes sense on a large scale- if you're a big company with a lot of hosting needs, it's probably cheaper to hire a team of full time employees and purchase the hardware yourself- after all, Amazon doesn't have a magic machine which makes salaries or hardware cheaper than they are for everyone else. If you a small shop, where your requirements would be for a tiny team and underused hardware, that's when it makes sense to pay the experts to do it for you.
White Supremacists and Christian Fundamentalists are the other two categories, and the biggest home grown ones. Think the Norwegian massacre and tell me it couldn't happen in the US.
With organized crime groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the downright terrifying militia movement, combined with the frequency of lone wolf killing sprees, America has far more to worry about from the home crowd than it does from abroad.
Without a controller. Add $50 for a controller and the Ouya is the cheaper of the two. And the Ouya controller is a fancy one with a built-in touch pad- not easy to buy on the open market.
I see a lot of computers (desk- and laptop) for sale in the UK from a company called Zoostorm with no OS. I haven't bought one yet (not had cause to), but I intend to give them a try next time I want a new Linux box. The No OS laptops look particularly appealing. They're jaw-droppingly low priced.
(I am in no-way paid to represent them by the by- purchase at your own risk etc.)
In brief:
Jolla = A company formed by ex-Nokia employees to carry on their Linux development after the switch to Windows Phone.
Sailfish OS = Their Linux distro for phones and tablets derived from Nokia's Meego, via a community project called Mer.
Wayland = A potential replacement for the venerable X11.
Android = Linux-based mobile OS which is very popular.
ODM = Original Design Manufacturer. A company which designs and makes a product based off of another company's reference material and branding- so Samsung is an ODM of Android phones.
Jolla have ported Wayland to work with Android GPU drivers, in order to remove an obstacle for ODM companies to make Sailfish phones- Wayland being a core part of Sailfish.
Got it?
What is needed is for an EMPLOYEE STOCK. One that is tied to profits, and is not allowed to be sold on the open markets. Yes, basically, an ESOP. However, they need to make it so that NO employee is allowed to own any public stock in the industry.
What you are describing is a mutual business or workers co-operative; where all employees own a portion of the business, are entitled to vote at AGMs and share in the profit, but the share of ownership is non-transferable- it lasts exactly as long as you are an employee. Additional capital can be raised on the open market as publicly tradeable bonds (such as PIBS), which more or less function as non-voting shares.
This is a sentiment I whole heartedly agree with. Mutual businesses have shown themselves to be (as a rule) more stable and more long-term viable than PLCs time and time again.
Who from? Nobody- not the US, not South Korea, not nobody- wants a war. There's nothing to gain from a war. It would cause devastating loss of life, and there are no strategic resources or whatnot to be had. Although the Southerners would like reunification, they don't want to level half the peninsula over it (and nor do the Northerners). Everyone's much happier playing the waiting game and hoping North Korea sorts itself out somehow (in the exact same way as the USSR and China did, only smaller scale).
The North is just trying to wring concessions out of their international rivals by rattling their sabres and making threats. The international community are just hoping they get bored of it like they always do. Nobody wants the situation to turn violent.
That is essentially the same business model of any free newspaper (such as the London papers Metro or Evening Standard; I'm sure there are examples local to you too). They give the paper away for free, and make money selling space for adverts. The more papers they can give away for free, the more they can charge to advertisers.
If that business model is acceptable for newspapers, it must be acceptable for other "products" too.
I have a more powerful device in my pocket.
I thought you were just glad to see me.
For that thing that the submitter was asking for?
You want a bare-bones version of Ubuntu? That's that. If you are venemously anti-Ubuntu then obviously it's not for you, but then that's not something you'd be asking for.
Bin Laden and Castro wouldn't have been able to do what they did if they didn't have the US as the focal point to blame for the problems that they and their people's hate.
Wait, what is Castro supposed to have done comparable to Bin Laden? I mean it's not like I'm defending an undemocratic dictator or anything, but he's not as bad as all that. that Just your common or garden petty dictator. I must have missed the Cuban invasion of the American mainland...
Ah yes, I'm sure Thatcher selling off the UK's water utilities really shook Moscow to its foundations.
Or was it that letting people buy their own Council Houses at a bit of a discount really motivated those lazy East Germans to tear down that wall? I bet they couldn't wait to get a chance to buy a piece of their crumbling tenement (and didn't worry for a moment that perhaps West Germany wouldn't adopt exactly the same policy straight away).
Westboro Baptist does it, and they're disgusting, unfeeling monsters who should be eradicated from the face of the earth.
I *am* a fan of behaving like a gentleman.
Go protest at Parliament, you thick cunt
Sure sounds like it!
Britain voted her into power again and again. She was chosen by Brits to lead because she was a good leader.
She was chosen by the Brits time and time again because she was very good at playing the politics game. She kept people happy with a string of populist policies, from massive pre-election vote-buying "share giveaways" from selling off National property, to having a good old war with some nasty foreigners over an island no-one had ever heard of before, to letting people buy Council Houses at a large discount to immediately sell on at a massive profit.
While at the same time, she had remarkably low personal opinion poll ratings and her policies were immensely controversial (and remain so here to this day).
So please don't assume that her victories over the lame-duck Labour opposition at the time was some sort of ringing endorsement for her policies; it was just good clever politics. Thatcher's governments were a product of Labour's failings, not of her own brilliance. As is so very often the case with the Conservatives in the post-war period. Just ask Messrs D Cameron and G Brown...
While true, try to look closely at the graph you posted.
In the "bad old days of the unions", manufacturing peaked at 86 on that chart (I can't read what exactly the scale is referring to). Thatcher came to power and the value promptly drops to 70. It takes Thatcher 8 of the 10 years she was in power to recover manufacturing to it's previous point (1988), and it collapses again before she leaves power back to 88- a whole 2 points higher than when she entered office! Wow! All subsequent growth (from the mid-80s point that it was at in both 1979 and 1991 to around 100 where you chart finishes) happened under people who were not her- John Major and Tony Blair.
So according to your chart which you've posted, Thatcher set British manufacturing growth back by 10 years with her policies. Great legacy!
If you put a small toddler in a playpen with a kilo sack of sugar, the child eats all the sugar, and subsequently gets very ill with diabetes, who's to blame? Yes, the child is to blame. But nowhere near as much to blame as the atrociously negligent adult who set the situation up.
If you give every single working class person in Britain (or anywhere) a piece of paper with "IOU £1000" written on it, and you tell them they can either have £1000 to pay their debts right at this exact moment or they can sit on it and it MIGHT, MAYBE be worth more in 5 years (or it could be worth far less), what do you think they're going to do?
It was not a scheme that was ever destined to "open share ownership up tot he masses". It was a vote-buying cash give away resulting in most of our major national infrastructure being owned by foreign companies. Indeed, much of UK's infrastructure is now owned by foreign governments- energy companies like the French state-owned EDF and German RWE (Npower), or in transport the German Deutsche Bahn (Arriva), Dutch NS (Abellio). Progress!
Kickstarter seems to be doing its darndest to revive the Adventure game genre (along with a few other forgotten genres- god game, space sim, etc.).
While the big game developers seem to have almost universally decided to turn into unimaginative Hollywood-style jerks, the indie game industry seems to be having a new renaissance, flush with new engines and tool sets, new distribution channels, and new access to funding. So the bad comes with some good.
If the service "offers POP3 support", which presumably they do, then it is the service supplier's problem. Not the user's fault for using one of the two services on offer which happens to be the less sophisticated one.
And in any case, I've not read anything in this thread or TFA to imply that POP3 users are affected while IMAP ones aren't. The GGP points out a way in which the problem would occur for users of both technologies. If I use an IMAP client to "delete" an email on one day, there is zero good reason for it to reappear in my inbox a year later. That is a system error pure and simple.
Neither of these cases is necessarily the fault of Sky, sometimes it's just not possible to reliably import this information between mail servers, and in the case of POP3 users, it's just down to the fact that POP3 is not designed for leaving read messages on the server for multiple clients to pick up.
What a ridiculous thing to say. Sky is one of the UK's biggest ISPs, and they're moving their email provider from probably the biggest webmail provider in the world (Google) to probably the second largest (Yahoo). Are you really telling me that it was beyond the abilities of any of these three parties to a) do a test migration to check for serious errors, and b) make sure their migration methodology/toolset was compatible with the two technologies at hand before making the move?
To let such a huge and obvious public-facing error go live to so many people smacks of absolutely shocking incompetence.
People still ask me "what's the best smartphone". People like my parents and other relatives. If I say "the new HTC is better than the new LG", or "don't get Windows Phone, it's terrible", there's a serious chance they'll listen to me, even if they didn't understand the reasons I was explaining to them.
This is basically what killed Vista. Every "techie" in the world worth his salt told his friends "don't get Vista, it's terrible". And the impression stuck. (It was true, of course, but most non-techies wouldn't have figured it out very quickly on their own). That very much didn't happen with Windows 7, and that went much better for Microsoft.
From my personal experience:
- When my parents' desktop broke once and for all, I built them a replacement from the various spares-and-repairs I had in my cupboard, with Xubuntu on it. They used it happily for around 1 year until they bought their official replacement, a Windows 7 PC.
- When my dad's laptop was virused last, I set him up a vanilla Ubuntu dual boot, set it to the "default", and told him to use that for anything except work (for which he requires specific software). He uses it almost exclusively now. Says he feels much safer doing internet banking and shopping on it. The dual booting doesn't phase him by the by- he just knows that when the menu comes up when he turns it on, he has 8 seconds to select "Windows" if he wants it.
- My grandparents in law (who are 80+) wanted their first ever computer, so I reformatted an old Windows XP computer I had lying around with vanilla Ubuntu. They're happy with it. Someone recently gave them a laptop with (pirated) Vista on it in addition and they couldn't run it at all; they asked me to "make it work like the desktop one does".
Obviously some people will have more barriers to entry than others, but in my experience it has been pretty painless. Nobody seems to mind unless they have a specific piece of software to use- which aside from workers or gamers, is almost no-one.
Essentially, it's the difference between GNU/Linux ("Linux") and Dalvik/Linux ("Android"). Seeing as RMS lost the whole "GNU/Linux not Linux" debate some years ago, Linux is now synonymous with GNU/Linux. Therefore people say Dalvik/Linux (or Java/Linux?) "isn't real Linux".
What actually is a "gaming laptop"? One with an i7 processor and a non-Intel video card? That's not that difficult to buy. A quick search of Amazon shows me 96 results for just that. 31 of them have a 17" or greater screen size too. Pretty much every PC manufacturer is represented there.
No judgement on price though; the ones I can see look fair enough at £500-£700.
The difference is that you can't install any legacy or mainstream software on the RT version, and what you can install all has to come through the Microsoft "App Store"- so no more downloading random bits of software from anywhere you like on the internet.
Both of those things suck quite a bit on their own without even needing to invoke the horridness of Metro. Yes it's comparable with the experience on an iPad I suppose, but certainly not what someone would expect if they were buying what they thought was normal "Windows".
A dowser would probably reply that it has something to do with water naturally forming along ley lines or collecting in places with unique magnetic fields, or some other hokus pokus nonsense.
People relying on "supernatural" powers can always make "supernatural" excuses. Can't "medium" in controlled conditions? It's because the ghosts don't like working in lab conditions. Healing crystals don't work on lab animals? It's because animals lack a chackra.