Open source did destroy Sun. But not with criticism. Sun failed to recognize the threat from Linux until well after Linux's performance and reliability had achieved parity with Solaris.
That Java ran very poorly on Solaris also did not help.
The match between Sun and Oracle still strikes me as bizarre. Oracle software favoring Sun workstations can only hurt Oracle. And the only synergy between the two is that a lot of Oracle software can run on Sun equipment.
IBM would have been a much better match. Owning Sun's IP would have allowed IBM to incorporate the best remaining pieces of Solaris into Linux, cementing IBM as THE vendor for large-scale Linux equipment. And Java would have put IBM back on the general computing map without the risk inherent to the PC hardware business they sold off.
A 7 can configure backup software so that a 4 can change the tapes. A 9 can automate the backup process so that there are no tapes to change. And when I go to restore a file from the 9's backup it'll have actually worked. The 7's backups will be more iffy, especially if the 4 neglected to change the tapes.
I'd rather hire the 9. Then I don't need the 4 or the 7. And since the 9 is paid less than the sum of the 4 and 7's salaries, I save money to boot.
As am I. And I well understand the benefits that diverse perspectives resulting from diverse backgrounds brings to a team. But when I have a chance to hire a 9, I hire the 9. I only hire the 7 when I can't afford to wait for a 9 to become available. I'd rather pay the 9 to automate the 7's work down to nothing than pay the 7 to do the repetitive work he can handle.
A 7 is "nearly" a 9? You may have a different definition of "nearly" than the tech folks asking you to hire staff for them. If your rankings accurately reflect the candidates' competence, a 7 will be unable to handle the top 20% of the tasks a 9 can do.
'' Alan Butler, employee number 530, who at age 18 was once Sunâ(TM)s youngest employee, mused somewhat wistfully: âoeWe should have charged $1 a seat for every Java licenseâ and that would have generated billions in cash annually, perhaps saving the company. âoe ''
Fool. You'd have made about $300. With all of Java's other early problems, a price tag would have ended it before it could gain any momentum.
Again, why would someone agree to that but not agree to streaming?
You're asking why if someone doesn't want to fly on a jet they're not willing to fly in a propeller-driven plane instead. It's not jets they're against. They don't want to fly. They don't have to fly. So they're not gonna fly.
This argument makes sense to a lot of copyright owners -- all the ones who participate in Netflix streaming. What possible advantage over streaming would any of them realize with this "virtual DVD" concept? And why would anyone who rejects streaming not also reject the virtual DVD concept?
By the first stable release of R (2/2000) folks recognized the problems using the search engines to find C documentation. It would have been a wise time to pick a searchable name.
Unfortunately, that explanation doesn't work because Netflix generally acquires DVDs from studios as part of a cooperative agreement
Use your brain. Back before streaming, back before Netflix, back when Blockbuster was king, what motivated the studios to to make cooperative agreements for DVD rentals? If you said "first stale doctrine" you win the prize. The studios figured out they would make more money by taking a cut of the revenues instead of only getting a single sale for a DVD rented many times. The rental places figured that lowering the capital outlay for new releases was a right good plan too. So they came to a gunpoint agreement -- the gun being the first sale doctrine.
The deals with Netflix are little different than the deals with any other DVD renter. On the other hand, Netflix tries to avoid buying DVDs because they're out $20 when it breaks in the mail, versus cooperative agreements which replace them cheaply. But it has a few competitors who buy and rent the DVDs Netflix won't -- and ship them more carefully.
Meanwhile the precedents for streaming absent permission are 100% in the copyright owners' favor. Even if Aereo wins its case, DVD renters are still prohibited from breaking the DVD copy protection. So the owners don't have to permit it if they don't want to. And some have secretaries who print their email.
It's the law stupid. The answer to your question begins and ends with the law.
I'm shocked to learn that a purpose-built programming language might be better at its specific purpose than a general purpose programming language. Shocked I say.
I'd be even more shocked if a bunch of mathematicians had the good sense to pick a Google searchable name for their language. One PIA thing with C is how hard it is to search Google for documentation when you don't remember the exact function name.
The general right to privacy is one of the many freedoms withdrawn as a result of criminal conviction. As it should be. As should any freedom which makes it harder for the guards to maintain their own safety or prevent other prisoners from harming you. You're only innocent until *proven* guilty.
The point of prison is to remove those who would harm others from the rest of society and put them somewhere they can't harm the innocent. Punishment doesn't work. Rehabilitation doesn't work. The recidivism rates basically don't change.
So you give the prisoners the opportunity to become someone who isn't trapped in a cycle of crime: some will take it and some won't. Other than that the focus is and should be keeping everybody alive at minimum cost until society is ready to give them another chance.
I agree with one thing you said: once you've served your time full rights should be restored. Until and unless you prove you still can't handle it, you should be treated as a citizen like any other.
What Microsoft *should* do, if they were a responsible company, is spin off a new company called "Windows XP." The new company gets a license to all technology in XP for the purpose of maintaining it. It continues on an update subscription basis winding down staff with the decreasing revenues.
To do otherwise is planned obsolescence. Americans let the U.S. automakers know what they thought of that in the '70s... by buying Japanese cars.
Vaccines are effective. Safe? I guess you can call crossing the street in a crosswalk safe. Some people do get run over and killed but most come out OK. Not as safe as simply not walking around lots of cars. But safer than jaywalking.
So why hasn't Steyn demanded the data under ordinary discovery rules? FOIA is an odd way to go about getting data you're supposedly entitled to in order to defend yourself in court.
That's how I'd handle it. If they want patch reports, that's reasonable. If they want you to patch the test environment a week ahead so that the devs can check for problems and alert you not proceed, that's reasonable too.
If they want to micromanage your tiny components of your job they can get bent and good luck finding a replacement. No preapproval for routine systems administration activity.
The idea then was that the country's military power should be retained individually by its citizens. They wanted legal barriers against a concentration of power under a central authority.
Things haven't exactly worked out that way. Lincoln was the beginning of the end: with intentions pure he demonlished the concept of state's rights. Roosevelt's New Deal put the final nail in the coffin. And really, which individuals would you pick to keep one of the nukes in the barn stall next to the chicken coop?
On the other hand, things like crazy Cliven Bundy's fight with the Federal Bureau of Land Management are probably a healthy part of Jefferson's "Eternal Vigilance." That couldn't happen without guns and a viable threat of violence against otherwise unsympathetic bureaucrats.
It's very Science. You tinker with the disease so it'll no longer kill you and then expose yourself so that your autoimmune response will be triggered. This results in antibodies ready to fight off the full strength version should you ever come in contact with it.
That's what a vaccine is.
The concept was discovered back when someone thought to wonder why milk maids always had smooth skin. It turned out they didn't get smallpox like everybody else. But every one of them caught smallpox's weaker cousin, cowpox, early in life.
Catch is, tinkering with a disease so it won't kill you is only about 99.999% successful. The other 0.001% of the time it kills you anyway. So you don't want to take a vaccine for every conceivable disease... just for those you're likely to come in to contact with.
We want to reduce the schedule and reduce the toxins.
Er... a vaccine is generally a weakened form of the actual disease you're trying to protect against. It's a little concept called "immunotherapy." One doesn't create a vaccine by running away from toxins, one embraces the toxins in a manner that stimulates the body to protect itself.
I have a laptop loaded with books and some portable solar panels to charge it. My plan is to locate some survivalists and suggest that if they get me through year one, what I bring will see them through years two through ten. Do they want to scrape out an existence as hunter-gatherers or do they want to LIVE?
We went from Edison to Google in only a century. With knowledge preserved, civilization and its comforts can be rebuilt in less than a lifetime.
Assuming I survive being within 10 miles of a probable ground zero for any apocalypse, of course. And hopefully they don't shoot first.
If a banker steals money from the bank, that's a problem with one banker. The a dozen bankers steal money from the bank every week and upon discovery the bank fails to fire them, that's a problem with the bank.
More oversight of the bankers won't fix the problem with the bank.
Not all human beings are able to have their word taken over mine in court by default.
Only for infractions where the maximum penalty is a small fine. In every other matter, a police officer's testimony carries the same legal weight as anybody else's.
Not all human beings are able to injure me and get away with it.
A cop is no more able to injure you and get away with it than anyone else. Indeed, a teenager is much more likely to escape penalty than a cop.
Not all human beings are able to invade my home and get away with it.
Actually, bounty hunters have far more rights in this respect than cops do. And they're not government employees.
Not all human beings are able to kill me and get away with it.
George Zimmerman.
Not all human beings are able to restrain me and get away with it.
Citizen's arrest.
Furthermore, when "not 100% faultless" really means "cop is a scumbag criminal", [...] then yes, we do need to see who and how they are hurting people
Then limit the recorders to officers who've received X complaints in the prior 12 months. You know, people for whom there is a reasonable suspicion that they're engaged in bad behavior.
How will you ever get rid of the bad actors if you make it horrible job for anybody who might replace them?
Because they're not. An ordinary citizen can legally do almost anything a police officer can do, even arrest somebody. The biggest difference is that a police officer enjoys qualified immunity to lawsuit if he gets it wrong.
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Open source did destroy Sun. But not with criticism. Sun failed to recognize the threat from Linux until well after Linux's performance and reliability had achieved parity with Solaris.
That Java ran very poorly on Solaris also did not help.
The match between Sun and Oracle still strikes me as bizarre. Oracle software favoring Sun workstations can only hurt Oracle. And the only synergy between the two is that a lot of Oracle software can run on Sun equipment.
IBM would have been a much better match. Owning Sun's IP would have allowed IBM to incorporate the best remaining pieces of Solaris into Linux, cementing IBM as THE vendor for large-scale Linux equipment. And Java would have put IBM back on the general computing map without the risk inherent to the PC hardware business they sold off.
A 7 can configure backup software so that a 4 can change the tapes. A 9 can automate the backup process so that there are no tapes to change. And when I go to restore a file from the 9's backup it'll have actually worked. The 7's backups will be more iffy, especially if the 4 neglected to change the tapes.
I'd rather hire the 9. Then I don't need the 4 or the 7. And since the 9 is paid less than the sum of the 4 and 7's salaries, I save money to boot.
As am I. And I well understand the benefits that diverse perspectives resulting from diverse backgrounds brings to a team. But when I have a chance to hire a 9, I hire the 9. I only hire the 7 when I can't afford to wait for a 9 to become available. I'd rather pay the 9 to automate the 7's work down to nothing than pay the 7 to do the repetitive work he can handle.
A 7 is "nearly" a 9? You may have a different definition of "nearly" than the tech folks asking you to hire staff for them. If your rankings accurately reflect the candidates' competence, a 7 will be unable to handle the top 20% of the tasks a 9 can do.
'' Alan Butler, employee number 530, who at age 18 was once Sunâ(TM)s youngest employee, mused somewhat wistfully: âoeWe should have charged $1 a seat for every Java licenseâ and that would have generated billions in cash annually, perhaps saving the company. âoe ''
Fool. You'd have made about $300. With all of Java's other early problems, a price tag would have ended it before it could gain any momentum.
Again, why would someone agree to that but not agree to streaming?
You're asking why if someone doesn't want to fly on a jet they're not willing to fly in a propeller-driven plane instead. It's not jets they're against. They don't want to fly. They don't have to fly. So they're not gonna fly.
Get it?
This argument makes sense to a lot of copyright owners -- all the ones who participate in Netflix streaming. What possible advantage over streaming would any of them realize with this "virtual DVD" concept? And why would anyone who rejects streaming not also reject the virtual DVD concept?
By the first stable release of R (2/2000) folks recognized the problems using the search engines to find C documentation. It would have been a wise time to pick a searchable name.
because of the first sale doctrine
Unfortunately, that explanation doesn't work because Netflix generally acquires DVDs from studios as part of a cooperative agreement
Use your brain. Back before streaming, back before Netflix, back when Blockbuster was king, what motivated the studios to to make cooperative agreements for DVD rentals? If you said "first stale doctrine" you win the prize. The studios figured out they would make more money by taking a cut of the revenues instead of only getting a single sale for a DVD rented many times. The rental places figured that lowering the capital outlay for new releases was a right good plan too. So they came to a gunpoint agreement -- the gun being the first sale doctrine.
The deals with Netflix are little different than the deals with any other DVD renter. On the other hand, Netflix tries to avoid buying DVDs because they're out $20 when it breaks in the mail, versus cooperative agreements which replace them cheaply. But it has a few competitors who buy and rent the DVDs Netflix won't -- and ship them more carefully.
Meanwhile the precedents for streaming absent permission are 100% in the copyright owners' favor. Even if Aereo wins its case, DVD renters are still prohibited from breaking the DVD copy protection. So the owners don't have to permit it if they don't want to. And some have secretaries who print their email.
It's the law stupid. The answer to your question begins and ends with the law.
I'm shocked to learn that a purpose-built programming language might be better at its specific purpose than a general purpose programming language. Shocked I say.
I'd be even more shocked if a bunch of mathematicians had the good sense to pick a Google searchable name for their language. One PIA thing with C is how hard it is to search Google for documentation when you don't remember the exact function name.
The general right to privacy is one of the many freedoms withdrawn as a result of criminal conviction. As it should be. As should any freedom which makes it harder for the guards to maintain their own safety or prevent other prisoners from harming you. You're only innocent until *proven* guilty.
The point of prison is to remove those who would harm others from the rest of society and put them somewhere they can't harm the innocent. Punishment doesn't work. Rehabilitation doesn't work. The recidivism rates basically don't change.
So you give the prisoners the opportunity to become someone who isn't trapped in a cycle of crime: some will take it and some won't. Other than that the focus is and should be keeping everybody alive at minimum cost until society is ready to give them another chance.
I agree with one thing you said: once you've served your time full rights should be restored. Until and unless you prove you still can't handle it, you should be treated as a citizen like any other.
What Microsoft *should* do, if they were a responsible company, is spin off a new company called "Windows XP." The new company gets a license to all technology in XP for the purpose of maintaining it. It continues on an update subscription basis winding down staff with the decreasing revenues.
To do otherwise is planned obsolescence. Americans let the U.S. automakers know what they thought of that in the '70s... by buying Japanese cars.
Vaccines are effective. Safe? I guess you can call crossing the street in a crosswalk safe. Some people do get run over and killed but most come out OK. Not as safe as simply not walking around lots of cars. But safer than jaywalking.
So why hasn't Steyn demanded the data under ordinary discovery rules? FOIA is an odd way to go about getting data you're supposedly entitled to in order to defend yourself in court.
Why is capacitive touch so important?
Because it, well, works. The older tech worked poorly when it worked at all and suffered a much higher rate of failure.
That's how I'd handle it. If they want patch reports, that's reasonable. If they want you to patch the test environment a week ahead so that the devs can check for problems and alert you not proceed, that's reasonable too.
If they want to micromanage your tiny components of your job they can get bent and good luck finding a replacement. No preapproval for routine systems administration activity.
That's the thing The capacitive multitouch screen makes tablets practical. Before that they were just toys. Nokia made the right call for the time.
The idea then was that the country's military power should be retained individually by its citizens. They wanted legal barriers against a concentration of power under a central authority.
Things haven't exactly worked out that way. Lincoln was the beginning of the end: with intentions pure he demonlished the concept of state's rights. Roosevelt's New Deal put the final nail in the coffin. And really, which individuals would you pick to keep one of the nukes in the barn stall next to the chicken coop?
On the other hand, things like crazy Cliven Bundy's fight with the Federal Bureau of Land Management are probably a healthy part of Jefferson's "Eternal Vigilance." That couldn't happen without guns and a viable threat of violence against otherwise unsympathetic bureaucrats.
It's very Science. You tinker with the disease so it'll no longer kill you and then expose yourself so that your autoimmune response will be triggered. This results in antibodies ready to fight off the full strength version should you ever come in contact with it.
That's what a vaccine is.
The concept was discovered back when someone thought to wonder why milk maids always had smooth skin. It turned out they didn't get smallpox like everybody else. But every one of them caught smallpox's weaker cousin, cowpox, early in life.
Catch is, tinkering with a disease so it won't kill you is only about 99.999% successful. The other 0.001% of the time it kills you anyway. So you don't want to take a vaccine for every conceivable disease... just for those you're likely to come in to contact with.
We want to reduce the schedule and reduce the toxins.
Er... a vaccine is generally a weakened form of the actual disease you're trying to protect against. It's a little concept called "immunotherapy." One doesn't create a vaccine by running away from toxins, one embraces the toxins in a manner that stimulates the body to protect itself.
I have a laptop loaded with books and some portable solar panels to charge it. My plan is to locate some survivalists and suggest that if they get me through year one, what I bring will see them through years two through ten. Do they want to scrape out an existence as hunter-gatherers or do they want to LIVE?
We went from Edison to Google in only a century. With knowledge preserved, civilization and its comforts can be rebuilt in less than a lifetime.
Assuming I survive being within 10 miles of a probable ground zero for any apocalypse, of course. And hopefully they don't shoot first.
If a banker steals money from the bank, that's a problem with one banker. The a dozen bankers steal money from the bank every week and upon discovery the bank fails to fire them, that's a problem with the bank.
More oversight of the bankers won't fix the problem with the bank.
Yeah, we don't send them to the colony on Molokai Hawaii any more. We've deprived the poor lepers of their tropical paradise.
Not all human beings are able to arrest me.
Ever heard of citizen's arrest?
Not all human beings are able to have their word taken over mine in court by default.
Only for infractions where the maximum penalty is a small fine. In every other matter, a police officer's testimony carries the same legal weight as anybody else's.
Not all human beings are able to injure me and get away with it.
A cop is no more able to injure you and get away with it than anyone else. Indeed, a teenager is much more likely to escape penalty than a cop.
Not all human beings are able to invade my home and get away with it.
Actually, bounty hunters have far more rights in this respect than cops do. And they're not government employees.
Not all human beings are able to kill me and get away with it.
George Zimmerman.
Not all human beings are able to restrain me and get away with it.
Citizen's arrest.
Furthermore, when "not 100% faultless" really means "cop is a scumbag criminal", [...] then yes, we do need to see who and how they are hurting people
Then limit the recorders to officers who've received X complaints in the prior 12 months. You know, people for whom there is a reasonable suspicion that they're engaged in bad behavior.
How will you ever get rid of the bad actors if you make it horrible job for anybody who might replace them?
Because they're not. An ordinary citizen can legally do almost anything a police officer can do, even arrest somebody. The biggest difference is that a police officer enjoys qualified immunity to lawsuit if he gets it wrong.