Damn right we are not paying for addons. We are trying to use the FOSS model.
I'm not even sure, yes I did not read TFA, what this is all about but no. No dammit I'm not going to pay for an addon. Do you people even know what FOSS means?
But don't you think that is part of what the corporate culture is all about within Oracle? That they view the FOSS model as something to be discarded rather than used as a tool to enable more sales?
When you pick up a hardware company that has put resources into FOSS to foster that line and then toss all of that FOSS to the wind it seems to me that they just don't get it.
I think there is a real corporate culture within Oracle that has a disdain for the idea behind FSF/OSS. And having worked with plenty of authoritative right-wing corporate types that see anything that is 'free' as bad even if it is the best technical solution I know when to suggest using FSF/OSS software and when to just let some narrow minded authoritarian pay more because that is what they are comfortable with.
As I've witnessed the brain-drain at Oracle it has become pretty clear to me that they do have such a corporate culture and hey, that is fine. They are 100% within their rights to run their company as they see fit and use whatever IP that they own as such. But they should be, and most likely are aware, that the OSS community has noted their actions and will respond accordingly.
My outsider view is that Oracle has made that calculation of losing the OSS community support and they are ok with that. That vs a company like IBM who likely has a ton of authoritative right-wing MBAs who keep wondering why every quarter something they don't understand keeps putting black dollars in their bottom line; because they have a few people who do get it and make sure to keep those who would mess with such things out of the way.
I see Oracle likely has little to no such people like that and as such they will piss away some of the things that they acquired via Sun because they simply don't understand them. Now this whole post might have come off as a slam at what I've called right-wing authoritarians but keep in mind that is only because that is the best way I can describe what I've seen in the current corporate culture. The idea that short term profit is the main goal and anything that detracts from that must be cut has been the mantra sadly.
Now that looks nice. I'm pretty happy with my n810 still but something like that, if not exactly that, would be something I'd want to replace it with.
Relativity low cost, an actual card reader, flash-able, built in Wifi, and what looks to be a decent display makes something like that about where we should be right now. How is the battery life?
I have nothing really against Apple and even most Apple users. They have done a really good job pushing what the standard should be. Their stuff however is wayyyyyy too locked down for me to even consider let alone the money you have to pay to be in that walled garden. Yes yes you can break stuff but that is not what I want to have to do and worry about if some forced update will screw all that up.
Given the success of Stream as well as Apple's own success with its mobile stores why would they not want to carry this over to the desktop? I can imagine someone somewhere in MS HQ is being chewed out for not having integrated something like this in Win7.
Exactly how well it will work with a software pool as big and diverse as what Windows supports is questionable. In addition to the trust factor for MS's image. So maybe for end users it might be meh but if there is one thing MS does well it is cater to larger scale implementations.
In fact for say a small office being able to manage your licensing in such a way would be better than the paper trail that one has to keep in case the BSA/MS/etc goons come around.
On a macro scale, with blocks that are built for children, we have something like this. Wow.
Look, I know that on a molecular level you have to deal with all sorts of physics that would not apply in what we see here but dammit I am hopeful that we are getting closer to having nano-bots. Of all the tech that I think we can do this is the stuff I think we could see in a lifetime.
Time travel...we don't have the energy yet to close the loops or so Hawking says. FTL travel...the physics that I know seem to say it's in the same league as time travel. The energy we currently view as high is not even in the same league as what we would need to have these types of tech. And as such there is very little research into such ideas.
And that is fine. We do need to have a stable planet such that we can actually progress. And as such the research into what we can do on our scale is very valid. Lets make some nano-bots that clean out our arterial walls and such. Do it. Go.
On the right we have China. Wearing red and white.
On the left we have US. Wearing blue and red.
Fight!
China: Body blow! (I will devalue your currency!) US: Head shot! (I will impose trade sanctions!) China: Feint. (We will not devalue your currency.) US: Attempt at another head shot but missing and leaving us open to... (We value your trade.) China: Body blow! (Psyc! We are gonna continue to devalue your currency. LOL!) US: Feint. (Our 40 year strategy of appeasing China is catching up with us...what do we do...I know lets blame the middle class!) China: Wait, what? (You are going to oppress our main customers? WTH mang?) US: Body blow. (Haha, you might have a lot of our debt but we own you with our buying power.) China: Feint. (You win...for now.)
I am not ashamed to pimp my oldschool Apple roots. The//e was a hackers dream. But the Woz Apple is far far away from the Jobs Apple. Jobs is all about controlling everything and thus making coin off it. And that is fine for what it is. I don't need total control over how my oven is made. I can let someone else control all the buttons and dials that control it. I'm just, in effect, an end user of that oven. If I really wanted control I'd install a Salamander in my house, and a deep fryer, and all the other things that let real chefs do all the sorts of things with food I don't want or need to do on a day to day basis.
Yeah I have a small deep fryer but it's barely big enough for an onion so I'm still limited in what I can do with it. (See what I did there Slashdot? A cooking analogy vs a car one...props me!) But as a Admin level user of IT stuff I don't need a Gated Wall around my tech. Yes I do like a Firewall there but that is not the same thing. I want control over what is going on and if I can't get it from X, Y is out there.
As such when we try to compare 'How wonderful Apple is' in terms of what goes on on Microsoft I'm not sure I follow. They are two sides of the same coin. Or at the very least kissing cousins.
He is a biased source, yes. He's also the only source capable of 100% knowing the truth of why he decided to do something. It's up to the readers to decide if they prefer first-hand information from a biased source or second-hand information, guesses and suppositions from other, potentially also biased sources, or better yet, a mix of both.
People rewrite their own history all the time. Either consciously or though some rationalization process.
As the old saying goes there is what people said happened and then what really happened. Add to that now what Hollywood said happened.
Cell phones get abused, simple as that. You have people who would not normally use anything more advanced than a TV remote that have high end smartphones these days. And such people, and not a shot at them just saying, often don't have the mindset of treating high end portable electronics with a bit more care. To them something that you can throw in your purse or pocket should be able to take massive amounts of abuse.
And by in large I would say that modern cell phones do! Phones get dropped, dropped in water, left on the roofs of cars and then the person drives away, abused by family pets, etc. And many keep going right along.
I personally think a full case is best since even under the best care you know your just gonna drop your phone at some point. My BB case cost me all of $10 and it was worth every penny. I'm and oldschool geek so by nature I'm pretty careful with my electronics but I don't ever worry about accidentally dropping my phone.
Look Blockbuster was evil and all that, I get that. I got hit by their stupid late fees more than once. Hell I actually got attacked by their late fee credit report hound dogs for like 3 dollars and change at one point.
But why is there such a cartoonishly level of evil in the corporate world these days? Could they not have seen that there was a move to digital media and start to shut down some stores, move their capital, do something that would have provided them a real path to future growth?
There are plans it would seem to destroy the currency, which is probably part of the globalist agenda to replace the dollar with something else. This might not work, because many people like myself, have a handle on the situation and the criminal activities of our government in the US. We have taken steps against the government to protect our assets which is why you see Gold prices breaking record highs week after week.
Ok, you do know the plans to move Oil from the Dollar to the Euro was in large part why we went to war in Iraq? You speak of 'globalist' agenda's but you seem to be thinking that there is a driving force here in the USA that seeks that.
Sure I'm sure that there are some factions in the USA that would like to see the Dollar devalued more. But it surely has not been the United States Government. We went to war with a country that was already beaten down from a previous war via a pretext that was given to us by a bunch of radical Saudies just basically to preserve the Dollar.
Further as to your gold idea...yeah right. The idea behind gold is pretty dated which is why we moved away from it. You do know that say things like diamonds are not really rare right? Please tell me you do. But getting back to gold it is nice and all but hording it will not prevent Germany from being the most productive European country. Nor will it prevent China from having a billion dirt cheap laborers. All it will do is play a bit of a the game that is the market but have no real effect on the real economy.
You seem a little tinfoil hatish so I'm not gonna hold out any hope that you and your ilk are gonna 'get it' but shrug. I just hope that you know that diamonds are not rare. That would be a good start.
I'm fine with my, currently cable, broadband bill. As long as it does not go up and they continue to increase the speed I see it as win win. I'm paying for them for a) their own profit, b) the actual service and all that goes with that, and c) them upgrading their infrastructure as tech advances.
As long as all of those 3 things are happening then I have no issue. I think where some people take issue, and rightly in some cases, is that either not all 3 of those things are happening or that point C is not happening fast enough.
Pilots have always had terrible salaries. The companies bank on pilot's love of flying to override their desire for pay. Pilots have always had a rough time of it. The only thing that has changed is that they used to be more respected and looked up to (I don't know if that was ever deserved though).
I am not an expert on this subject and have spoken at length with a pilot myself of some 20 years. Maybe there is a relativity issue in the salary despondency that you are seeing, IE it was never good based on what you thought it should be at. But from what I've read and have spoken to my uncle about it has gotten worse.
That was my major point, that there has been a decline because of the issue presented in the article I linked. After de-regulation with so many carriers closing you had pilots that previously had been making decent money having to in effect start over. That say vs an engineer with 20 years of experience having to accept an entry level wage. The overall effect of so many carriers closing pulled down the gross pay scale for all the pilots.
One of my uncles is also a pilot and he has said it is tough to have any sort of leverage when it comes to your job given that they know that they have you over a barrel. The airlines know that unless a pilot has virtually no seniority they would face a huge pay cut if they wanted to another company. Not exactly a incentive for them to treat their pilots well.
Fox News (New) Right Wing Talk Radio (Not new but newer) Right Wing Printed Press Right Wing Religious Pressure (Not new by a long shot, but has gained new ground.)
You make very good points but just FYI Joe Biden is our current VP. Compared to McCain, who recently sold his soul to keep his senate seat, Biden has yet to do anything really 'bad'.
Biden actually aside from often sticking his foot in his mouth is actually a pretty down to earth guy. So, again especially in light of what McCain has done lately, to put him in the same sentence with McCain is a bit unfair.
All that being said the right has been going nuts here in the US with its propaganda like we have never seen before. We have a lot of our own issues to deal with and what I see sometimes here is some projection when people from the US ask, "Hey what is going on with and your right wing wacos?!"
While I personally never really felt the need to buy something like a PSP their target market seemed very narrow: gullible rich kids/young adults who did not mind being locked into Sony's proprietary formats.
If they wanted to lock people into formats they needed to put out some very cheap type units. Get the public hooked with a loss-leader or break even type unit that would then have them wanting to buy the high end units.
Ok to be fair I saw nothing at the AOE Online site where they called what they were doing an MMO. Rather they made it a point to call it a Persistent World. Further since Ensemble Studios is not even a division of MS anymore I wonder if anyone from any of the original AOE I & II games had a hand in it. From the brief video it did not look like it to me.
A little off topic but I lost interest in the AOE series when AOE III came out. They really changed the game too much and what made AOE I & II so much fun was lost imo. I moved on to RON which still to date is the best RTS overall. SC II is decent but while there is a level of complexity in microing your units there is nothing that I've seen that matches RON's strategy with all its different resources, rare resources, ages, territories, and so on.
When you are convicted of collusion, never mind all the companies that get away with it all the time, but if we convict someone of collusion it should not be just a slap on the wrist.
I could go on but there is a lot of issues here and the US has a lot of law on the books that favor corporate 'individuals' over their actual citizenry. I keep going back to that Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times.
The idea that SSDs should totally replace such a time tested storage system at this point is not even really an issue imo. SSDs are doing what they are designed to do and do it pretty well: be damn fast.
I in good/. tradition did not RTFA but I can only assume the author is not trying to predict too far into the future. And in the near future I can see SSDs hitting a sweet spot where they can become the only drive in people machines. But then for large storage, even within the same household, there will be a hard drive(s).
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Tell you what, I'll split the difference with you when you hand in your geek card and read:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Damn right we are not paying for addons. We are trying to use the FOSS model.
I'm not even sure, yes I did not read TFA, what this is all about but no. No dammit I'm not going to pay for an addon. Do you people even know what FOSS means?
But don't you think that is part of what the corporate culture is all about within Oracle? That they view the FOSS model as something to be discarded rather than used as a tool to enable more sales?
When you pick up a hardware company that has put resources into FOSS to foster that line and then toss all of that FOSS to the wind it seems to me that they just don't get it.
I think there is a real corporate culture within Oracle that has a disdain for the idea behind FSF/OSS. And having worked with plenty of authoritative right-wing corporate types that see anything that is 'free' as bad even if it is the best technical solution I know when to suggest using FSF/OSS software and when to just let some narrow minded authoritarian pay more because that is what they are comfortable with.
As I've witnessed the brain-drain at Oracle it has become pretty clear to me that they do have such a corporate culture and hey, that is fine. They are 100% within their rights to run their company as they see fit and use whatever IP that they own as such. But they should be, and most likely are aware, that the OSS community has noted their actions and will respond accordingly.
My outsider view is that Oracle has made that calculation of losing the OSS community support and they are ok with that. That vs a company like IBM who likely has a ton of authoritative right-wing MBAs who keep wondering why every quarter something they don't understand keeps putting black dollars in their bottom line; because they have a few people who do get it and make sure to keep those who would mess with such things out of the way.
I see Oracle likely has little to no such people like that and as such they will piss away some of the things that they acquired via Sun because they simply don't understand them. Now this whole post might have come off as a slam at what I've called right-wing authoritarians but keep in mind that is only because that is the best way I can describe what I've seen in the current corporate culture. The idea that short term profit is the main goal and anything that detracts from that must be cut has been the mantra sadly.
We need IE dammit.
How else I'm I supposed to download Firefox on a fresh install?
Now that looks nice. I'm pretty happy with my n810 still but something like that, if not exactly that, would be something I'd want to replace it with.
Relativity low cost, an actual card reader, flash-able, built in Wifi, and what looks to be a decent display makes something like that about where we should be right now. How is the battery life?
I have nothing really against Apple and even most Apple users. They have done a really good job pushing what the standard should be. Their stuff however is wayyyyyy too locked down for me to even consider let alone the money you have to pay to be in that walled garden. Yes yes you can break stuff but that is not what I want to have to do and worry about if some forced update will screw all that up.
Given the success of Stream as well as Apple's own success with its mobile stores why would they not want to carry this over to the desktop? I can imagine someone somewhere in MS HQ is being chewed out for not having integrated something like this in Win7.
Exactly how well it will work with a software pool as big and diverse as what Windows supports is questionable. In addition to the trust factor for MS's image. So maybe for end users it might be meh but if there is one thing MS does well it is cater to larger scale implementations.
In fact for say a small office being able to manage your licensing in such a way would be better than the paper trail that one has to keep in case the BSA/MS/etc goons come around.
On a macro scale, with blocks that are built for children, we have something like this. Wow.
Look, I know that on a molecular level you have to deal with all sorts of physics that would not apply in what we see here but dammit I am hopeful that we are getting closer to having nano-bots. Of all the tech that I think we can do this is the stuff I think we could see in a lifetime.
Time travel...we don't have the energy yet to close the loops or so Hawking says. FTL travel...the physics that I know seem to say it's in the same league as time travel. The energy we currently view as high is not even in the same league as what we would need to have these types of tech. And as such there is very little research into such ideas.
And that is fine. We do need to have a stable planet such that we can actually progress. And as such the research into what we can do on our scale is very valid. Lets make some nano-bots that clean out our arterial walls and such. Do it. Go.
On the right we have China. Wearing red and white.
On the left we have US. Wearing blue and red.
Fight!
China: Body blow! (I will devalue your currency!)
US: Head shot! (I will impose trade sanctions!)
China: Feint. (We will not devalue your currency.)
US: Attempt at another head shot but missing and leaving us open to... (We value your trade.)
China: Body blow! (Psyc! We are gonna continue to devalue your currency. LOL!)
US: Feint. (Our 40 year strategy of appeasing China is catching up with us...what do we do...I know lets blame the middle class!)
China: Wait, what? (You are going to oppress our main customers? WTH mang?)
US: Body blow. (Haha, you might have a lot of our debt but we own you with our buying power.)
China: Feint. (You win...for now.)
I am not ashamed to pimp my oldschool Apple roots. The //e was a hackers dream. But the Woz Apple is far far away from the Jobs Apple. Jobs is all about controlling everything and thus making coin off it. And that is fine for what it is. I don't need total control over how my oven is made. I can let someone else control all the buttons and dials that control it. I'm just, in effect, an end user of that oven. If I really wanted control I'd install a Salamander in my house, and a deep fryer, and all the other things that let real chefs do all the sorts of things with food I don't want or need to do on a day to day basis.
Yeah I have a small deep fryer but it's barely big enough for an onion so I'm still limited in what I can do with it. (See what I did there Slashdot? A cooking analogy vs a car one...props me!) But as a Admin level user of IT stuff I don't need a Gated Wall around my tech. Yes I do like a Firewall there but that is not the same thing. I want control over what is going on and if I can't get it from X, Y is out there.
As such when we try to compare 'How wonderful Apple is' in terms of what goes on on Microsoft I'm not sure I follow. They are two sides of the same coin. Or at the very least kissing cousins.
He is a biased source, yes. He's also the only source capable of 100% knowing the truth of why he decided to do something. It's up to the readers to decide if they prefer first-hand information from a biased source or second-hand information, guesses and suppositions from other, potentially also biased sources, or better yet, a mix of both.
People rewrite their own history all the time. Either consciously or though some rationalization process.
As the old saying goes there is what people said happened and then what really happened. Add to that now what Hollywood said happened.
Cell phones get abused, simple as that. You have people who would not normally use anything more advanced than a TV remote that have high end smartphones these days. And such people, and not a shot at them just saying, often don't have the mindset of treating high end portable electronics with a bit more care. To them something that you can throw in your purse or pocket should be able to take massive amounts of abuse.
And by in large I would say that modern cell phones do! Phones get dropped, dropped in water, left on the roofs of cars and then the person drives away, abused by family pets, etc. And many keep going right along.
I personally think a full case is best since even under the best care you know your just gonna drop your phone at some point. My BB case cost me all of $10 and it was worth every penny. I'm and oldschool geek so by nature I'm pretty careful with my electronics but I don't ever worry about accidentally dropping my phone.
Look Blockbuster was evil and all that, I get that. I got hit by their stupid late fees more than once. Hell I actually got attacked by their late fee credit report hound dogs for like 3 dollars and change at one point.
But why is there such a cartoonishly level of evil in the corporate world these days? Could they not have seen that there was a move to digital media and start to shut down some stores, move their capital, do something that would have provided them a real path to future growth?
Lets play name the person with a, not honorary mind you, college degree:
Glen Beck
John Stewart
Rush Limbaugh
Further lets Google the videos of those 3 who have gone on shows other than their own and have faced hard questions.
I know it is hard every day living with the cognitive dissonance that you right wingers have but you could just you know...stop doing it.
There are plans it would seem to destroy the currency, which is probably part of the globalist agenda to replace the dollar with something else. This might not work, because many people like myself, have a handle on the situation and the criminal activities of our government in the US. We have taken steps against the government to protect our assets which is why you see Gold prices breaking record highs week after week.
Ok, you do know the plans to move Oil from the Dollar to the Euro was in large part why we went to war in Iraq? You speak of 'globalist' agenda's but you seem to be thinking that there is a driving force here in the USA that seeks that.
Sure I'm sure that there are some factions in the USA that would like to see the Dollar devalued more. But it surely has not been the United States Government. We went to war with a country that was already beaten down from a previous war via a pretext that was given to us by a bunch of radical Saudies just basically to preserve the Dollar.
Further as to your gold idea...yeah right. The idea behind gold is pretty dated which is why we moved away from it. You do know that say things like diamonds are not really rare right? Please tell me you do. But getting back to gold it is nice and all but hording it will not prevent Germany from being the most productive European country. Nor will it prevent China from having a billion dirt cheap laborers. All it will do is play a bit of a the game that is the market but have no real effect on the real economy.
You seem a little tinfoil hatish so I'm not gonna hold out any hope that you and your ilk are gonna 'get it' but shrug. I just hope that you know that diamonds are not rare. That would be a good start.
I'm fine with my, currently cable, broadband bill. As long as it does not go up and they continue to increase the speed I see it as win win. I'm paying for them for a) their own profit, b) the actual service and all that goes with that, and c) them upgrading their infrastructure as tech advances.
As long as all of those 3 things are happening then I have no issue. I think where some people take issue, and rightly in some cases, is that either not all 3 of those things are happening or that point C is not happening fast enough.
Pilots have always had terrible salaries. The companies bank on pilot's love of flying to override their desire for pay. Pilots have always had a rough time of it. The only thing that has changed is that they used to be more respected and looked up to (I don't know if that was ever deserved though).
I am not an expert on this subject and have spoken at length with a pilot myself of some 20 years. Maybe there is a relativity issue in the salary despondency that you are seeing, IE it was never good based on what you thought it should be at. But from what I've read and have spoken to my uncle about it has gotten worse.
That was my major point, that there has been a decline because of the issue presented in the article I linked. After de-regulation with so many carriers closing you had pilots that previously had been making decent money having to in effect start over. That say vs an engineer with 20 years of experience having to accept an entry level wage. The overall effect of so many carriers closing pulled down the gross pay scale for all the pilots.
What he's really saying is that pilots salaries are (in his opinion) excessive...
And the kicker is that pilot salaries are really in a pretty bad spot these days:
http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the_pilot/2009/03/20/askthepilot313
One of my uncles is also a pilot and he has said it is tough to have any sort of leverage when it comes to your job given that they know that they have you over a barrel. The airlines know that unless a pilot has virtually no seniority they would face a huge pay cut if they wanted to another company. Not exactly a incentive for them to treat their pilots well.
So:
Fox News (New)
Right Wing Talk Radio (Not new but newer)
Right Wing Printed Press
Right Wing Religious Pressure (Not new by a long shot, but has gained new ground.)
Your right wing is showing methinks.
You make very good points but just FYI Joe Biden is our current VP. Compared to McCain, who recently sold his soul to keep his senate seat, Biden has yet to do anything really 'bad'.
Biden actually aside from often sticking his foot in his mouth is actually a pretty down to earth guy. So, again especially in light of what McCain has done lately, to put him in the same sentence with McCain is a bit unfair.
All that being said the right has been going nuts here in the US with its propaganda like we have never seen before. We have a lot of our own issues to deal with and what I see sometimes here is some projection when people from the US ask, "Hey what is going on with and your right wing wacos?!"
While I personally never really felt the need to buy something like a PSP their target market seemed very narrow: gullible rich kids/young adults who did not mind being locked into Sony's proprietary formats.
If they wanted to lock people into formats they needed to put out some very cheap type units. Get the public hooked with a loss-leader or break even type unit that would then have them wanting to buy the high end units.
Ok to be fair I saw nothing at the AOE Online site where they called what they were doing an MMO. Rather they made it a point to call it a Persistent World. Further since Ensemble Studios is not even a division of MS anymore I wonder if anyone from any of the original AOE I & II games had a hand in it. From the brief video it did not look like it to me.
A little off topic but I lost interest in the AOE series when AOE III came out. They really changed the game too much and what made AOE I & II so much fun was lost imo. I moved on to RON which still to date is the best RTS overall. SC II is decent but while there is a level of complexity in microing your units there is nothing that I've seen that matches RON's strategy with all its different resources, rare resources, ages, territories, and so on.
The disgusting part of the whole thing is that the business press is so used to kissing corporate heinie that they never call them on it.
I think you misunderstand. The press is part of the corporate system.
When you are convicted of collusion, never mind all the companies that get away with it all the time, but if we convict someone of collusion it should not be just a slap on the wrist.
I could go on but there is a lot of issues here and the US has a lot of law on the books that favor corporate 'individuals' over their actual citizenry. I keep going back to that Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times.
The idea that SSDs should totally replace such a time tested storage system at this point is not even really an issue imo. SSDs are doing what they are designed to do and do it pretty well: be damn fast.
I in good /. tradition did not RTFA but I can only assume the author is not trying to predict too far into the future. And in the near future I can see SSDs hitting a sweet spot where they can become the only drive in people machines. But then for large storage, even within the same household, there will be a hard drive(s).