There's nothing inherently more wrong about ITSM than project management for projects. The problem is that good project management doesn't by itself fix bad projects, vague specifications, poor work, unrealistic estimates, imposed deadlines or scope creep it just gives you a framework and process to deal with it. If you have business users that want magic, architects that add fourteen layers of bloat, code monkeys who couldn't produce good code at gunpoint and project managers who think their job is to bludgeon the developers into delivering what the business side wants in the time alotted it doesn't matter what kind of process you put them in.
And that's what I find is so wrong about many kinds of these processes. Instead of going to the real root of the problem we play musical chairs and hope that a new organization of the same broken pieces will somehow come together as a whole. Unfortunately singling out individuals that clog up the works isn't exactly going to make people pull together as a team, but damn am I tempted sometimes. Not that they're actively trying to sabotage anything but it's like what's the point of this discussion, is it going somewhere? Do we need to make some kind of decision here that isn't already made or that would impact what we do in the near future? Or do you just want us to ramble on an hour about why something was done that way...
Not that I have any Vista machines any more, but why drop Vista support? What's available on 7 but not Vista, API-wise?
It has 1/5th the market share of XP, end of extended support next month and killing off Vista counts as a mercy kill. Probably mostly the first one though, XP got supported because there were too many users to leave in a ditch. Vista, not so much.
The biggest cost is being hit with per core licensing, I'd love to throw more hardware at our system if it'd stay constant. But a doubling in cores deals a doubling in license costs and rarely a doubling in real world performance so unless you really need it all in one package.... no.
That seems to be mostly a problem in the US. In Europe, slow Internet is something you usually find in the countryside, but not in cities. Market failure?
Broadband have monopolist tendencies everywhere, but I think the real market failure in the US is because the biggest providers are cable networks. You're basically asking them to saw off the branch they're sitting on. Here in Norway telcos and xDSL was big and power companies were the first to push fiber, cable is also a player but they must remain competitive. They still want to make profit but if they can make more money selling you even faster broadband they'll do it. The mean download speed is now 47 Mbps (36% YoY growth), median is 27.7 Mbps (11% YoY growth) and no caps, it's something of a fiber rush as they're all doing that now. It has nudged out xDSL and cable as the dominant access technology.
Rural areas struggle more but there's variations of public/private/community funding, our cabin now has fiber. At the base is a commercial provider, but the project also had public funding (and thus a public budget), we paid an extra connection fee and everyone had to dig from the main road to the wall themselves or pay extra for that too. As part of the whole deal all permanent residents were offered fiber, cabins only if they were in close proximity to other routes. The residents want it, the community wants to be attractive and not a backwater hick, the company will make money on it in the long run... nobody's really against rolling it out, the math just needs to be there.
The actual trend is 30-40% YoY growth to 10M and with 260M PCs total it has about 3.8% of the PC market, if you count only notebooks it's 156M and 6.4%. That said, if you check StatCounter then ChromeOS comes in at 0.83%, less than Linux at 1.53% so accumulated they're still a very small part of the people browsing the web.
The submitter is probably measuring that in Ramen noodles while being a squatter on campus like his idol, because software wants to be like, free, man. And I'd show him our SQL Server Enterprise bill, but I fear he'd go into cardiac arrest. For us Visual Studio is just a rounding error for SSIS/SSAS/SSRS development.
I've been on the net for a very long time. Over a quarter century. I have never "come across" kiddie images. I have no idea how people seem to do this, or expect people to believe they just randomly came across child porn.
If you've been watching porn on the Internet, there's a high probability you've seen someone underage. Every so often there's a scandal about teens faking it into adult porn, well there's probably more going under the radar and in amateur porn and sexting there's no age checks. It doesn't help that the adult industry hire "barely legal" 18yos that look more like 14yo, so if you see an actual 14yo it probably just looks exactly like you're used to. I remember there was a case here in Norway where the ex-bf of a 13yo, almost 14yo girl had posted a video and it had 30.000 hits on a single adult site, nobody reported it or took it down until the story broke. Just getting rid of it from mainstream "free xxx" sites was a pain, these sites operate on razor thing margins from shady countries and don't respond or take down anything until they're forced to.
It also doesn't help that quite a people seem to have a fetish for stolen, private pics and vids. So download something like that big snapchat leak with that 15yo's sex pic? You're guilty even if you didn't know it was there and wasn't looking for it either. The law is weird that way, a 17yo can legally have a gangbang but if anyone snaps a picture it's kiddie porn. The abuse of words is quite intentional, if you made a distinction between "child porn" to mean <13yo and "underage teen porn" to mean 13-17yo I suspect most "child porn" would disappear overnight. That's a fetish for the few that keep mostly to themselves and it's blatantly obvious they're dealing with illegal material and will be reported immediately. It's actually everyone else that are oblivious to the legal danger they're in that are most at risk, who only find out later that OMG she was underage.
The nuclear stockpiles that exist on this planet make it pretty unlikely we'll see out the next century or so. Doesn't even have to be a deliberate act. More likely to be accidental. Given that, I think the urgency is warranted. Our ability to deal with existential threats is one of our worst competencies.
The most powerful nuke tested was 50 MT. The world's total nuclear arsenal is around 6400 MT. The dino-killer was 100.000.000 MT. We could obliterate all major population centers and contaminate the surrounding areas. Whirl enough dust into the athmosphere to send the planet into nuclear winter. We still wouldn't have enough nukes to hit every rural farm in the middle of nowhere. Maybe Florida would be more like Canada, but it wouldn't be uninhabitable. It would be the end of civilization as we know it. It wouldn't be the end of humanity as we know it.
What the hell are we waiting for? Having 4.2 Billions years of evolutionary investment held captive at the bottom of one gravity well is not a good long term strategy.
And for the first 4.19999 billion years we didn't have homo sapiens. For 4.1999999 billion years ago we were in the Dark Ages. And 4.19999999 billion years ago we fought WWI without any real rocketry. Dragging in astronomical time scales is more an argument that there's no urgency at all, if life survives 0.01% longer than it has we have hundreds of thousands of years to make it to the stars. And we could survive a dino-killer here on Earth, of course by we I don't mean 99.9% of us but humanity as such.
I agree on PAR2, simply because it's a file you can easily copy around, take backup off and so on. From a 1GB file I have ~3000 source blocks and ~30 recovery blocks, so I can recover from a lot of bit flips or failed 4kb sectors for a 1% size gain. If it's a photo set I usually make sure I can recover at least one completely missing photo. The nice thing is that it's sufficiently overkill you can probably go through several hardware generations without checking/repairing before you accumulate an unrecoverable number of errors. Which is good, because it's fairly CPU intensive so I wouldn't really want to go through an 8TB drive often. But I've found that an on-demand check when I actually need it is fine for content that is "in storage". It's not like it happens very often or applications and other more bit-flip sensitive formats would be screwed up quite often.
Free stuff should be exempt. Putting a cost (for the provider) to a free thing (for the public) will usually make that thing not free (for the public) anymore.
For the most part it's just an overhead to the budget. Like you use $X to design a web page for ordinary people, then +Y% for people with screen readers. If you're doing an infomercial for $X then subtitles for the deaf is +Y%. It's just a cost of being universally available that society wants us to take and it's usually not that high. It gets unreasonable is when you take something that's a byproduct of what you're already doing like holding lectures and you could offer them to the public almost for free but adding a captioning cost multiplies the budget many times over or if what you end up with would become ridiculously impractical. But if you at any time could use the excuse that if accessibility costs come on top we won't do it to avoid paying the law would be hollow.
I know we've struggled with getting data cubes past the accessibility test, even though I doubt anyone blind would ever try the insanity of navigating it with a screen reader. Other times you just run into absurdities in practice, that say a mountain lodge with no road needs a wheelchair ramp even though it's hard to imagine anyone in a wheelchair ever getting there. It's though to make general laws that don't in some way end up in absurdities. Unfortunately nobody's ever been able to codify "if it's stupid, use your head" as an actual regulation. At best you have rules for exemptions, but it's hard to see any formal reason why this should be exempted. I mean in an ideal world they would have been captioned.
To be fair, that's hardly unprecedented in the history of copyright laws. I can't remember exactly which of the attempts to modernise the legal framework in recent years survived the subsequent challenges, but it might still be the case that, strictly speaking, recording a broadcast TV programme just to time-shift is legal but doing so to keep permanently and watch as often as you want is not.
No idea about UK law, but at least in US law time-shifting is technically not a right. The reproduction right (which includes fixing a broadcast/stream to a medium) belongs to the copyright holder and time shifting is merely fair use. That matters when it comes to for example DRM, making that fair use hard to accomplish is not illegal.
Well that may be true for intellectual development but for social development most of us get along best with people like us with common interests so that we can share experiences. It's not like we have to be carbon copies but friends are the people you want to hang out with.
No. Checksums are short, easy to generate, and good at detecting accidental errors. They are also typically linear functions, so it is extremely easy to generate two (potentially very) different files with the same checksum.
A cryptographic hash on the other hand... of course a blockchain could provide the integrity of the history, but it doesn't solve any of the hard problems like who everybody is and whether they have permission to write to your journal. Also in order to verify the blockchain you need access to everything in it, goodbye restricted access... there's many stupid things about this.
Yes. It is the entire point. But you don't remove data from an EMR (Electronic Medical Record). Working with them on a daily basis, I can tell you the "removed" bits and "reason for removal" fields in their databases have a reason. You always add to the record, even if it is a removal. That is, you do if you and your customers value their legal skins.
That's the default, yes. But at least here in Norway you have the right to have information that is found wrong or unnecessary and strongly burdensome not only corrected, but actually expunged. Usually it involves possible substance abuse, child abuse, psychiatric diagnoses or something like that and the burden of proof is on you, it happens very rarely but it does happen from time to time. This is more a legal process around the registration of personal information than a medical process and you can appeal beyond the institution that logged it. Generally though the duty to document is very strong, even if what they thought or did was incorrect that's their basis for action and review so for example if you want to sue for malpractice that should be done first. But even if this happens in only one in a million journal entries, it's pretty incompatible with a blockchain.
If you look at new versions of Windows/OS X/Linux, you get new APIs like UWP, DirectX 12, Xcode, Metal, systemd, Vulkan and so on. The only way "everything could run on everything" would be if every OS-level API was available on every platform. And that closed source software is compiled for every instruction set, but I'll assume they'd do that. In theory it's not hard, it's just making a free cross-platform standard like POSIX or Java or Vulkan. That however ignores the practical reality that these companies are competing. They don't want to comply with a standard if they can make more money if they don't by adding more features or being more flexible to change or simply to not be compatible.
That the standard is there also doesn't mean the resources to implement it will be there. For example, for a long time Mesa's OpenGL implementation was ~5 years behind the latest official version. Now it has caught up but it didn't happen by itself, only through big resources from Intel and to a lesser degree AMD. The WINE project can read the programming API for DirectX, doesn't mean a compliant implementation will appear from nowhere. And sometimes there's plain old disagreement like when Google forked the Linux kernel to do wakelocks or the systemd vs non-systemd debacle. So in practice it's pretty hard.
That said, to shine some light in an otherwise glum post it usually converges slowly once the API is sufficiently settled. For example take USB device classes, it standardized many common hardware devices to the OS. If you don't have lots of vendor-specific parameters to set the user API can be standard too. This is a keyboard, this is a mouse, this is a memory stick etc. and you don't need a specific driver for every piece of hardware. You have libraries like Qt too, write towards it and it should run on Windows/Mac/Linux. Containers and such might also make it easier, heck doing a web application is a common way to make it run everywhere... it's happening in many ways but it'll still take decades.
When you leave your home, do you really want to spend that time at the grocery store? I'd rather let someone else pick and deliver my groceries so I can do the things I *want* to do.... I don't find grocery shopping to be particularly pleasant.
To be honest, as long as I shop at my regular store where I know roughly where everything is I don't really spent that much longer picking the groceries than I did selecting them and it's on the way home from work so it's not a detour at all. My impression is that their main market for delivery services are elderly who can't drive a car and don't want to carry heavy shopping bags around. The other thing I see that is more mainstream here in Norway is "food boxes", basically you get a box with all the ingredients for meals for a week in correct proportions and a paint-by-numbers guide on how to make it, basically a lazier way than checking recipe sites and finding it all yourself and still get varied food. It's not that expensive either because they create these in bulk, it's quasi-institutionalized cooking except everyone prepares their own meals. Personally I'm a create of habit and can easily rotate over a relatively small number of dishes.
In the restaurants I've seen, the kiosk spits out a receipt that you can use to pick up your meal at the counter. If there's a problem, it can be resolved there.
Probably because that's the way it's built already and this is a trial. If they're doing away with the ordering and that's a success I'm sure they'll put it in vending machine style cubes, you get an order reference number and it'll light up, scan the receipt and collect your tray/doggie bag/burger. In fact if this is the standard production line you could just do it in an app, just grab a seat and punch in your order. Or if you know there's free seats or it's to go you could even order it on the way over to pick it up. For the foreseeable future there'll probably be some kind of customer service rep there, but that's more the complaints department.
Unless....the reason for switching is because Microsoft bribed them in some way.
At the core is probably some TCO studies and they're not exactly indisputable facts. The licensing is just one tiny bit of it, then you try to estimate the productivity, maintenance and administration, difficulty of getting software and staff to operate it, training costs of users and so on. There's a lot of room for bias, particularly when it comes to omitting costs you would have with a different solution but won't be apparent until you get there. Also known as "the grass is greener on the other side", when you jump the fence you'll find the other side has its own set of disadvantages.
I'm sure Microsoft has made the pitch that Munich is actually losing money on their Linux adventure. And if you're not good at cutting through corporate BS and flawed assumptions - which most people aren't - it's not surprising that some policy makers believe them. Not to mention it probably involves a low-ball offer from Microsoft, which might actually be profitable in the short term until you're hooked on regular upgrade costs, software maintenance and so on in the future. But politicians often do things that look good in this election cycle. You don't have to imagine cloak-and-dagger operations.
You do realize that "Legal Intercept" is the same as phone companies (landlines and cell phones both) have had to provide to law enforcement for decades? I'm in favor of end to end encryption too, but it's hardly like a Skype call is worse than picking up the phone and calling someone.
It's the lesser of two evils. There are too many gullible idiots out there. Look at how many people on Slashdot fell for pizzagate.
The question is, does a disputed tag actually meaningfully help? I mean pretty much everyone knows that pizzagate is "disputed", that is some claim it happened and some claim it never did. The "truthers" of all colors will never care that the mainstream refute their story, it's the conspiracy/establishment/illuminati trying to censor the truth. Unless you have the balls to label it as "fake" this is pretty much meaningless.
Most likely, there is no major competition in the market, and PC sales on the whole have slowed considerably.
Sorry, but I think this is plain wrong because they're always working to lower their own cost. Even in the absence of competition if Intel could make a processor twice as fast, they'd make it half the size and sell the same performance at a much higher profit margin. And while the PC market has shrunk it's still 270 million PCs/year or about 75% of its all time high, it's a huge market even if it's not a growth market anymore.
This is just another one of Bezos's "MEE TOO, MEE TOO LOOOK AT MEEEE" moments because he knows that his Blue Origin realisations are far behind Space-X's and will be falling even further behind
Well when you look at Musk and his ITS rocket - only 4-5 times more powerful than the Saturn V - it looks like there's no shortage of grand plans in the space industry. Not disagreeing with you but if you're taking that jab at Bezos then Musk deserves some flak too.
Let's be real, most workplaces use Windows/Linux. So kids are better off.
Oh, you are making a joke eh? Well, LINUX/Unix is all I've worked on for decades...
You realize you're actually agreeing with the GP? Windows for most users, Linux for many that do heavy science/simulation or have gone all web/cloud, Macs used to be the "creative industry" but my impression is that they've figured out Photoshop runs just as well on Windows and video editing doesn't run very well on the trashcan at all. I have no idea if Apple has anything like AD/Group Policies etc. but if they do it's a well kept secret so I'm guessing it's mostly for independent employees where each machine live their own life.
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There's nothing inherently more wrong about ITSM than project management for projects. The problem is that good project management doesn't by itself fix bad projects, vague specifications, poor work, unrealistic estimates, imposed deadlines or scope creep it just gives you a framework and process to deal with it. If you have business users that want magic, architects that add fourteen layers of bloat, code monkeys who couldn't produce good code at gunpoint and project managers who think their job is to bludgeon the developers into delivering what the business side wants in the time alotted it doesn't matter what kind of process you put them in.
And that's what I find is so wrong about many kinds of these processes. Instead of going to the real root of the problem we play musical chairs and hope that a new organization of the same broken pieces will somehow come together as a whole. Unfortunately singling out individuals that clog up the works isn't exactly going to make people pull together as a team, but damn am I tempted sometimes. Not that they're actively trying to sabotage anything but it's like what's the point of this discussion, is it going somewhere? Do we need to make some kind of decision here that isn't already made or that would impact what we do in the near future? Or do you just want us to ramble on an hour about why something was done that way...
Not that I have any Vista machines any more, but why drop Vista support? What's available on 7 but not Vista, API-wise?
It has 1/5th the market share of XP, end of extended support next month and killing off Vista counts as a mercy kill. Probably mostly the first one though, XP got supported because there were too many users to leave in a ditch. Vista, not so much.
The biggest cost is being hit with per core licensing, I'd love to throw more hardware at our system if it'd stay constant. But a doubling in cores deals a doubling in license costs and rarely a doubling in real world performance so unless you really need it all in one package.... no.
That seems to be mostly a problem in the US. In Europe, slow Internet is something you usually find in the countryside, but not in cities. Market failure?
Broadband have monopolist tendencies everywhere, but I think the real market failure in the US is because the biggest providers are cable networks. You're basically asking them to saw off the branch they're sitting on. Here in Norway telcos and xDSL was big and power companies were the first to push fiber, cable is also a player but they must remain competitive. They still want to make profit but if they can make more money selling you even faster broadband they'll do it. The mean download speed is now 47 Mbps (36% YoY growth), median is 27.7 Mbps (11% YoY growth) and no caps, it's something of a fiber rush as they're all doing that now. It has nudged out xDSL and cable as the dominant access technology.
Rural areas struggle more but there's variations of public/private/community funding, our cabin now has fiber. At the base is a commercial provider, but the project also had public funding (and thus a public budget), we paid an extra connection fee and everyone had to dig from the main road to the wall themselves or pay extra for that too. As part of the whole deal all permanent residents were offered fiber, cabins only if they were in close proximity to other routes. The residents want it, the community wants to be attractive and not a backwater hick, the company will make money on it in the long run... nobody's really against rolling it out, the math just needs to be there.
The actual trend is 30-40% YoY growth to 10M and with 260M PCs total it has about 3.8% of the PC market, if you count only notebooks it's 156M and 6.4%. That said, if you check StatCounter then ChromeOS comes in at 0.83%, less than Linux at 1.53% so accumulated they're still a very small part of the people browsing the web.
$500 is Shocking???
The submitter is probably measuring that in Ramen noodles while being a squatter on campus like his idol, because software wants to be like, free, man. And I'd show him our SQL Server Enterprise bill, but I fear he'd go into cardiac arrest. For us Visual Studio is just a rounding error for SSIS/SSAS/SSRS development.
I've been on the net for a very long time. Over a quarter century. I have never "come across" kiddie images. I have no idea how people seem to do this, or expect people to believe they just randomly came across child porn.
If you've been watching porn on the Internet, there's a high probability you've seen someone underage. Every so often there's a scandal about teens faking it into adult porn, well there's probably more going under the radar and in amateur porn and sexting there's no age checks. It doesn't help that the adult industry hire "barely legal" 18yos that look more like 14yo, so if you see an actual 14yo it probably just looks exactly like you're used to. I remember there was a case here in Norway where the ex-bf of a 13yo, almost 14yo girl had posted a video and it had 30.000 hits on a single adult site, nobody reported it or took it down until the story broke. Just getting rid of it from mainstream "free xxx" sites was a pain, these sites operate on razor thing margins from shady countries and don't respond or take down anything until they're forced to.
It also doesn't help that quite a people seem to have a fetish for stolen, private pics and vids. So download something like that big snapchat leak with that 15yo's sex pic? You're guilty even if you didn't know it was there and wasn't looking for it either. The law is weird that way, a 17yo can legally have a gangbang but if anyone snaps a picture it's kiddie porn. The abuse of words is quite intentional, if you made a distinction between "child porn" to mean <13yo and "underage teen porn" to mean 13-17yo I suspect most "child porn" would disappear overnight. That's a fetish for the few that keep mostly to themselves and it's blatantly obvious they're dealing with illegal material and will be reported immediately. It's actually everyone else that are oblivious to the legal danger they're in that are most at risk, who only find out later that OMG she was underage.
The nuclear stockpiles that exist on this planet make it pretty unlikely we'll see out the next century or so. Doesn't even have to be a deliberate act. More likely to be accidental. Given that, I think the urgency is warranted. Our ability to deal with existential threats is one of our worst competencies.
The most powerful nuke tested was 50 MT. The world's total nuclear arsenal is around 6400 MT. The dino-killer was 100.000.000 MT. We could obliterate all major population centers and contaminate the surrounding areas. Whirl enough dust into the athmosphere to send the planet into nuclear winter. We still wouldn't have enough nukes to hit every rural farm in the middle of nowhere. Maybe Florida would be more like Canada, but it wouldn't be uninhabitable. It would be the end of civilization as we know it. It wouldn't be the end of humanity as we know it.
What the hell are we waiting for? Having 4.2 Billions years of evolutionary investment held captive at the bottom of one gravity well is not a good long term strategy.
And for the first 4.19999 billion years we didn't have homo sapiens. For 4.1999999 billion years ago we were in the Dark Ages. And 4.19999999 billion years ago we fought WWI without any real rocketry. Dragging in astronomical time scales is more an argument that there's no urgency at all, if life survives 0.01% longer than it has we have hundreds of thousands of years to make it to the stars. And we could survive a dino-killer here on Earth, of course by we I don't mean 99.9% of us but humanity as such.
I agree on PAR2, simply because it's a file you can easily copy around, take backup off and so on. From a 1GB file I have ~3000 source blocks and ~30 recovery blocks, so I can recover from a lot of bit flips or failed 4kb sectors for a 1% size gain. If it's a photo set I usually make sure I can recover at least one completely missing photo. The nice thing is that it's sufficiently overkill you can probably go through several hardware generations without checking/repairing before you accumulate an unrecoverable number of errors. Which is good, because it's fairly CPU intensive so I wouldn't really want to go through an 8TB drive often. But I've found that an on-demand check when I actually need it is fine for content that is "in storage". It's not like it happens very often or applications and other more bit-flip sensitive formats would be screwed up quite often.
Free stuff should be exempt. Putting a cost (for the provider) to a free thing (for the public) will usually make that thing not free (for the public) anymore.
For the most part it's just an overhead to the budget. Like you use $X to design a web page for ordinary people, then +Y% for people with screen readers. If you're doing an infomercial for $X then subtitles for the deaf is +Y%. It's just a cost of being universally available that society wants us to take and it's usually not that high. It gets unreasonable is when you take something that's a byproduct of what you're already doing like holding lectures and you could offer them to the public almost for free but adding a captioning cost multiplies the budget many times over or if what you end up with would become ridiculously impractical. But if you at any time could use the excuse that if accessibility costs come on top we won't do it to avoid paying the law would be hollow.
I know we've struggled with getting data cubes past the accessibility test, even though I doubt anyone blind would ever try the insanity of navigating it with a screen reader. Other times you just run into absurdities in practice, that say a mountain lodge with no road needs a wheelchair ramp even though it's hard to imagine anyone in a wheelchair ever getting there. It's though to make general laws that don't in some way end up in absurdities. Unfortunately nobody's ever been able to codify "if it's stupid, use your head" as an actual regulation. At best you have rules for exemptions, but it's hard to see any formal reason why this should be exempted. I mean in an ideal world they would have been captioned.
7So how is copyright enforcement supposed to know if I'm capturing that data for later additional use?
Same way they know if you copied those Netflix rental DVDs back when. As in, they don't.
To be fair, that's hardly unprecedented in the history of copyright laws. I can't remember exactly which of the attempts to modernise the legal framework in recent years survived the subsequent challenges, but it might still be the case that, strictly speaking, recording a broadcast TV programme just to time-shift is legal but doing so to keep permanently and watch as often as you want is not.
No idea about UK law, but at least in US law time-shifting is technically not a right. The reproduction right (which includes fixing a broadcast/stream to a medium) belongs to the copyright holder and time shifting is merely fair use. That matters when it comes to for example DRM, making that fair use hard to accomplish is not illegal.
Well that may be true for intellectual development but for social development most of us get along best with people like us with common interests so that we can share experiences. It's not like we have to be carbon copies but friends are the people you want to hang out with.
No. Checksums are short, easy to generate, and good at detecting accidental errors. They are also typically linear functions, so it is extremely easy to generate two (potentially very) different files with the same checksum.
A cryptographic hash on the other hand... of course a blockchain could provide the integrity of the history, but it doesn't solve any of the hard problems like who everybody is and whether they have permission to write to your journal. Also in order to verify the blockchain you need access to everything in it, goodbye restricted access... there's many stupid things about this.
Yes. It is the entire point. But you don't remove data from an EMR (Electronic Medical Record). Working with them on a daily basis, I can tell you the "removed" bits and "reason for removal" fields in their databases have a reason. You always add to the record, even if it is a removal. That is, you do if you and your customers value their legal skins.
That's the default, yes. But at least here in Norway you have the right to have information that is found wrong or unnecessary and strongly burdensome not only corrected, but actually expunged. Usually it involves possible substance abuse, child abuse, psychiatric diagnoses or something like that and the burden of proof is on you, it happens very rarely but it does happen from time to time. This is more a legal process around the registration of personal information than a medical process and you can appeal beyond the institution that logged it. Generally though the duty to document is very strong, even if what they thought or did was incorrect that's their basis for action and review so for example if you want to sue for malpractice that should be done first. But even if this happens in only one in a million journal entries, it's pretty incompatible with a blockchain.
If you look at new versions of Windows/OS X/Linux, you get new APIs like UWP, DirectX 12, Xcode, Metal, systemd, Vulkan and so on. The only way "everything could run on everything" would be if every OS-level API was available on every platform. And that closed source software is compiled for every instruction set, but I'll assume they'd do that. In theory it's not hard, it's just making a free cross-platform standard like POSIX or Java or Vulkan. That however ignores the practical reality that these companies are competing. They don't want to comply with a standard if they can make more money if they don't by adding more features or being more flexible to change or simply to not be compatible.
That the standard is there also doesn't mean the resources to implement it will be there. For example, for a long time Mesa's OpenGL implementation was ~5 years behind the latest official version. Now it has caught up but it didn't happen by itself, only through big resources from Intel and to a lesser degree AMD. The WINE project can read the programming API for DirectX, doesn't mean a compliant implementation will appear from nowhere. And sometimes there's plain old disagreement like when Google forked the Linux kernel to do wakelocks or the systemd vs non-systemd debacle. So in practice it's pretty hard.
That said, to shine some light in an otherwise glum post it usually converges slowly once the API is sufficiently settled. For example take USB device classes, it standardized many common hardware devices to the OS. If you don't have lots of vendor-specific parameters to set the user API can be standard too. This is a keyboard, this is a mouse, this is a memory stick etc. and you don't need a specific driver for every piece of hardware. You have libraries like Qt too, write towards it and it should run on Windows/Mac/Linux. Containers and such might also make it easier, heck doing a web application is a common way to make it run everywhere... it's happening in many ways but it'll still take decades.
When you leave your home, do you really want to spend that time at the grocery store? I'd rather let someone else pick and deliver my groceries so I can do the things I *want* to do.... I don't find grocery shopping to be particularly pleasant.
To be honest, as long as I shop at my regular store where I know roughly where everything is I don't really spent that much longer picking the groceries than I did selecting them and it's on the way home from work so it's not a detour at all. My impression is that their main market for delivery services are elderly who can't drive a car and don't want to carry heavy shopping bags around. The other thing I see that is more mainstream here in Norway is "food boxes", basically you get a box with all the ingredients for meals for a week in correct proportions and a paint-by-numbers guide on how to make it, basically a lazier way than checking recipe sites and finding it all yourself and still get varied food. It's not that expensive either because they create these in bulk, it's quasi-institutionalized cooking except everyone prepares their own meals. Personally I'm a create of habit and can easily rotate over a relatively small number of dishes.
In the restaurants I've seen, the kiosk spits out a receipt that you can use to pick up your meal at the counter. If there's a problem, it can be resolved there.
Probably because that's the way it's built already and this is a trial. If they're doing away with the ordering and that's a success I'm sure they'll put it in vending machine style cubes, you get an order reference number and it'll light up, scan the receipt and collect your tray/doggie bag/burger. In fact if this is the standard production line you could just do it in an app, just grab a seat and punch in your order. Or if you know there's free seats or it's to go you could even order it on the way over to pick it up. For the foreseeable future there'll probably be some kind of customer service rep there, but that's more the complaints department.
Unless....the reason for switching is because Microsoft bribed them in some way.
At the core is probably some TCO studies and they're not exactly indisputable facts. The licensing is just one tiny bit of it, then you try to estimate the productivity, maintenance and administration, difficulty of getting software and staff to operate it, training costs of users and so on. There's a lot of room for bias, particularly when it comes to omitting costs you would have with a different solution but won't be apparent until you get there. Also known as "the grass is greener on the other side", when you jump the fence you'll find the other side has its own set of disadvantages.
I'm sure Microsoft has made the pitch that Munich is actually losing money on their Linux adventure. And if you're not good at cutting through corporate BS and flawed assumptions - which most people aren't - it's not surprising that some policy makers believe them. Not to mention it probably involves a low-ball offer from Microsoft, which might actually be profitable in the short term until you're hooked on regular upgrade costs, software maintenance and so on in the future. But politicians often do things that look good in this election cycle. You don't have to imagine cloak-and-dagger operations.
You do realize that "Legal Intercept" is the same as phone companies (landlines and cell phones both) have had to provide to law enforcement for decades? I'm in favor of end to end encryption too, but it's hardly like a Skype call is worse than picking up the phone and calling someone.
It's the lesser of two evils. There are too many gullible idiots out there. Look at how many people on Slashdot fell for pizzagate.
The question is, does a disputed tag actually meaningfully help? I mean pretty much everyone knows that pizzagate is "disputed", that is some claim it happened and some claim it never did. The "truthers" of all colors will never care that the mainstream refute their story, it's the conspiracy/establishment/illuminati trying to censor the truth. Unless you have the balls to label it as "fake" this is pretty much meaningless.
Most likely, there is no major competition in the market, and PC sales on the whole have slowed considerably.
Sorry, but I think this is plain wrong because they're always working to lower their own cost. Even in the absence of competition if Intel could make a processor twice as fast, they'd make it half the size and sell the same performance at a much higher profit margin. And while the PC market has shrunk it's still 270 million PCs/year or about 75% of its all time high, it's a huge market even if it's not a growth market anymore.
This is just another one of Bezos's "MEE TOO, MEE TOO LOOOK AT MEEEE" moments because he knows that his Blue Origin realisations are far behind Space-X's and will be falling even further behind
Well when you look at Musk and his ITS rocket - only 4-5 times more powerful than the Saturn V - it looks like there's no shortage of grand plans in the space industry. Not disagreeing with you but if you're taking that jab at Bezos then Musk deserves some flak too.
Let's be real, most workplaces use Windows/Linux. So kids are better off.
Oh, you are making a joke eh? Well, LINUX/Unix is all I've worked on for decades...
You realize you're actually agreeing with the GP? Windows for most users, Linux for many that do heavy science/simulation or have gone all web/cloud, Macs used to be the "creative industry" but my impression is that they've figured out Photoshop runs just as well on Windows and video editing doesn't run very well on the trashcan at all. I have no idea if Apple has anything like AD/Group Policies etc. but if they do it's a well kept secret so I'm guessing it's mostly for independent employees where each machine live their own life.