If you by "figure out" means "google it" then sure, we definitely need more software engineers that tackle each problem they get with "let's ask google and cut and paste the first solution that compiles."
They are closer than ever. Sure you can be the type of sysadmin that goes in and just reboots the server when things don't work, but there are plenty of sysadmin jobs where you're basically a programmer. I recently left such a job where I was definitely more of a programmer, I just programmed in Puppet instead of something like Java.
When people applaud Apple, design is often one of the things they applaud. How about non-removable batteries as bad design?
I bought an Android partly because I can carry a tiny spare battery, and replace it if needed, instead of carrying a charger or an even bigger battery to charge my phone.
The battery is clearly removable. According to the summary they will replace it for you if it drops below 80 % and they would not be able to do that if it was non-removable. Just because you can't quickly and easily remove it yourself doesn't mean that it's not removable. It is removable, you just need some time and tools to do it.
It would absolutely be legal in Europe. Stores in Europe are free to chose what they want to sell and not, they are not required to carry everyone that wants to. If Apple decides that they don't want to carry competing streaming applications then they are fully within their right to do so, just like Debian is in their right to refuse to ship any application in their archive for whatever reason they want. Are you suggesting that Debian could not legally refuse to ship the non-free Spotify client in Europe?
Q: What guarantee do we have that these binary blobs don't contain root kits?
A: None.
This really isn't acceptable.:(
Would you feel better if the CPU/GPU came with the firmware preloaded? I agree that it's not ideal but the code is not loaded into the kernel, it's loaded into the hardware by the kernel.
$200,000 sounds insane for an old computer. OK it's a fairly rare computer that has some historical value, but even a fraction of that amount would be quite high.
Try and find a new computer with Windows 7 installed. There aren't many. I'm not even sure if the big names still offer the "downgrade".
Microsoft allows you to downgrade all copies of Windows 8.1 Pro to either Windows Vista Business or Windows 7 Professional. That is provided by Microsoft, it's not up to the OEM.
Or it could work just fine. RAID 0 is not dangerous, you may just as well loose your data even if you only use a single drive. Hard drives and SSDs don't go bad that often that it's a problem.
It's not so much that it's hard to learn. It's not actually that hard. When building an operating system dealing with all the small details of the hardware is much more harder than learning assembly. The reason why we stopped building operating systems completely in assembly was not that it was hard to learn but it was because we wanted to port them to different architectures.
I'm not reallyd sure that I understand that point. To me, thst would sound reasonable for educstionsl Ãr entertainment purposes, but are there any other meaningful reasons for writing an entire OS in assembler?
Today, not that much apart from looking cool. Not a lot of programmers know assembly that well anymore so writing a non-trivial operating system completely with it is definitely something to put on the resume. It used to be necessary to use assembly get good performance, but since the late 80's and early 90's it's not really necessary anymore on personal computers.
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Since when is CS and coder the same thing?
If you by "figure out" means "google it" then sure, we definitely need more software engineers that tackle each problem they get with "let's ask google and cut and paste the first solution that compiles."
They are closer than ever. Sure you can be the type of sysadmin that goes in and just reboots the server when things don't work, but there are plenty of sysadmin jobs where you're basically a programmer. I recently left such a job where I was definitely more of a programmer, I just programmed in Puppet instead of something like Java.
I know what a netmask is, and I'm still far away from reaching that million. :-)
Retired sysadmin, in transition to developer.
why anyone thought forced delinking will ever work?
it just draws more attention to what you are trying to delink
it seems so absurd. i can't imagine a group of adults believing in or supporting such a ridiculous concept
I'm from Europe and I think this is absurd. It's not like we're one homogeneous mind that agrees on everything.
Either that or pay a professional to do it. Apple will do it for you when you buy a new battery.
When people applaud Apple, design is often one of the things they applaud. How about non-removable batteries as bad design?
I bought an Android partly because I can carry a tiny spare battery, and replace it if needed, instead of carrying a charger or an even bigger battery to charge my phone.
The battery is clearly removable. According to the summary they will replace it for you if it drops below 80 % and they would not be able to do that if it was non-removable. Just because you can't quickly and easily remove it yourself doesn't mean that it's not removable. It is removable, you just need some time and tools to do it.
Forced Opt-in by default is ILLEGAL in the EU.
Opt-in in the EU is by LAW/Directives to be OPTIONAL by default.
Another example of American companies not understanding nor giving a fuck about our rights in Europe.
I hope somebody takes them to the EU courts over these practices. Same with the annoying defaults of installing Chrome on installers.
Google is already in the courts, time to bring Yahoo in and many others (Valve with steam etc). Apple has been through it with iTunes.
Another example of Europeans not understanding that their laws don't apply in America.
Inside thousands of labs all over the world there are testing devices worth tens of billions of dollars running on XP
The OS upgrade path is next to none
You don't update software on medical equipment anyway. That thing would have to be recertified.
If it's OpenJDK they can bundle it as much as they want.
It would absolutely be legal in Europe. Stores in Europe are free to chose what they want to sell and not, they are not required to carry everyone that wants to. If Apple decides that they don't want to carry competing streaming applications then they are fully within their right to do so, just like Debian is in their right to refuse to ship any application in their archive for whatever reason they want. Are you suggesting that Debian could not legally refuse to ship the non-free Spotify client in Europe?
Nothing requires Apple to carry everything in their store. They can deny any app for whatever reason they want.
There's several to choose from. ARM, POWER, SPARC, just to mention a few.
Q: What guarantee do we have that these binary blobs don't contain root kits? A: None.
This really isn't acceptable. :(
Would you feel better if the CPU/GPU came with the firmware preloaded? I agree that it's not ideal but the code is not loaded into the kernel, it's loaded into the hardware by the kernel.
It, and everything else, are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them.
Of course, but I wasn't questioning that it was worth that amount of money. I asked why.
$200,000 sounds insane for an old computer. OK it's a fairly rare computer that has some historical value, but even a fraction of that amount would be quite high.
Try and find a new computer with Windows 7 installed. There aren't many. I'm not even sure if the big names still offer the "downgrade".
Microsoft allows you to downgrade all copies of Windows 8.1 Pro to either Windows Vista Business or Windows 7 Professional. That is provided by Microsoft, it's not up to the OEM.
What if I don't want to?
It's a suboptimal choice of words. You're still allowed even if you don't want it.
XFS isn't newer than ext4.
Depends on how you look at. XFS is continuously developed and improved, they just don't stick a version number after it like the ext developers.
If the file system actually was great I'm sure someone else would pick it up, but I don't know if it was that great.
Or it could work just fine. RAID 0 is not dangerous, you may just as well loose your data even if you only use a single drive. Hard drives and SSDs don't go bad that often that it's a problem.
According to the article he did that in a simulated environment, not the actual plane.
PostgreSQL has had PL/R since 2003.
Which is nice but doesn't really do anything for you if you're not using PostgreSQL, for example those using SQL Server.
It's not so much that it's hard to learn. It's not actually that hard. When building an operating system dealing with all the small details of the hardware is much more harder than learning assembly. The reason why we stopped building operating systems completely in assembly was not that it was hard to learn but it was because we wanted to port them to different architectures.
I'm not reallyd sure that I understand that point. To me, thst would sound reasonable for educstionsl Ãr entertainment purposes, but are there any other meaningful reasons for writing an entire OS in assembler?
Today, not that much apart from looking cool. Not a lot of programmers know assembly that well anymore so writing a non-trivial operating system completely with it is definitely something to put on the resume. It used to be necessary to use assembly get good performance, but since the late 80's and early 90's it's not really necessary anymore on personal computers.