A common, and fatal, mistake. They're trying to keep using Microsoft Exchange
An even more fatal mistake would be migrating away from Exchange. Sorry but there is no alternative for that on Linux, not unless you have no idea what it does and think that Exchange is just an email system. Comparing it to Windows 95 era is quite telling to, migrating to Linux back then was far easier.
Modern Windows in a large corporation is a well integrated platform where each Microsoft application works with the other for central management and communication. Building an eco-system on Linux 20 years ago would be childsplay compared to justifying moving away from Microsoft now.
In 15 years, any _their_ (as in bespoke) applications could have been rewritten 3-5 times in their entirety.
It's usually not the government's job to write applications. In 15 years companies could have popped up servicing that need. But they didn't. The idea that a government then needs to spend money to re-write applications kind of defeats the whole cost based reason for switching to Linux in the first place.
Roll the clock back six months, didn't I read about this before?
I give it 10 days for another article to come out saying "No, we're staying with Linux."
Yes you did, but for the past 5 years it has been squarely consistent in content: Moving away from Linux. Just because it's constantly in the headlines and people have short attention spans, doesn't mean anyone is flipflopping on the issues.
They've found at least in the case of laptops that have cellular enabled wireless, disabling your network interface does nothing because the IME has direct access and control over the wireless radio.
And yet IME does not actually listen or respond to cellular interfaces. It does have control but that's about it. If you did have a point it was diminished by the fact that you believe a tiny battery will power fully functioning network interfaces / cellular modems.
Democracy works just fine. People hysterically and ignorantly will vote against their own collective self interest. That's why so much government is deferred to experts.
Case in point: Everything you have just said. It has stifled an entire industry which would have fantastically responded to the current global warming crisis. It is the equivalent of banning cars because they didn't have seatbelts and airbags rather than letting an industry safely progress. Ironically the German chemical industry left largely untouched is at the forefront of process safety development, and I wonder how much of this was due to the distraction posed by the nukular rhadyation!
In the mean time I'm just glad the winds typically blow from west to east around here. On the occasion where they blow the opposite way there's a hell of a foul stench blowing from Ruhr area. Good going mate, stick it to the government while you choke on your air.
By the way since you're passionately speaking about the topic I will assume you're German so a bit of advice when structuring an argument in English: Name calling doesn't make people feel bad, but it instantly shows a panic and lack of coherence in your post. If you had a point in your post, consider it ignored.
Very little functionality has been lost. Web-extensions can do most of the things the old API could. If you're missing something maybe you should complain to whoever chose not to maintain your extension, and by extension (pun intended) be thankful that they are finally getting forced to do a code review as the cesspool of poorly written buggy memory leaking garbage extensions that haven't been updated in a long time is well and truly overdue to be scrubbed out with chlorine.
For me, the new Firefox isn't missing a single feature of the previous one. Unless you count and insecure and slow add-on API that has held back development for many years as a "feature".
The speed of Firefox was not a big issue for me. It was usually "fast enough."
Speed was the reason I stopped using it. Well a crash was the reason I stopped using it, but speed is what made me decide to just start using Chrome instead of restarting Firefox.
It may be fast enough for your workload, but it has for a while now held a title that we haven't handed out to someone other than Microsoft in a long time, it was SLOW, especially when loading complex pages or with many tabs open.
It hasn't. Add-on and extension eco-system is still there and better than ever. Now developers can write extensions that more seamlessly cross into other browsers making it more enticing to create them. They are also faster, more secure, result in less memory leaks and basically stopped doing a whole lot of shitty things that we blamed Firefox for.
If your developer cares he will port (unless you want to change the UI, there's a few things Web Extensions can't do). Most of the popular stuff is already there. More will come.
If anything it is a good purge of the sewer of abandoned buggy shit extensions that developers didn't care to put any effort into.
So is that kind of time investment to unlock what I presume to be one of the best characters in the game really unreasonable?
Best characters? I think you're misunderstanding. It's just a character. Not only do you need to grind to get him, but if you do so in the 40 hours chances are you going to have a cool character and absolutely nothing to keep that character alive.
I don't think the backlash is as much that it takes 40 hours to get an awesome character, it's that it takes much more AND you can bypass that all for a small fee.
Sorry but not even close. The nuclear FUD in Germany is well and truly a grass roots campaign led mostly by those who lived through the hysteria of Chernobyl. The world was largely comfortable with the idea of nuclear power maintaining the status quo right until the Japan incident. That started new fears of "if they can't even do it".
No need for the coal industry to get involved. The actual protests on the ground and the driving force from the people in Germany who have no concept of risk management and just know they are surrounded by these nukular things they don't understand was incredible. Protesters number in the hundreds of thousands there and after the Fukushima incident they even managed to form a 45km long human chain.
Never underestimate the power of ignorance combined with technical media reporting. The coal industry hasn't had to spend a dime in Germany battling nuclear, not since the 80s anyway.
How horrific does the pollution from a plant have to be before regulators in China shut it down?
Don't bring 2000 era daft bias into the conversation. Every society has followed the same path, from the USA to Germany, Japanese, and now Chinese. There were borderline uninhabitable places in major US cities due to pollution from lack of environmental regulation. Where are they now? Cleaned up as the economy evolved and the country transitioned.
China is going through much of the same. Major investment in green technologies, major incentives to stop polluting, major incentives and regulations to clean up cities. Right now they are battling with the laggard problem of major corruption which is why factories are being closed to force the issue of non-compliance.
Fun side anecdote: My company was going to build a new coal fired steam boiler at one of our Chinese plants, as horrifying as that thought was. It was the government that said no we'd lose out license to operate if we didn't fire it with nat gas from the new pipeline they were building down to the chemical park. Oh and all the other companies down there were then given a 5 year deadline to switch to natgas away from coal / oil.
Welcome to the new China. The oid China is now sitting in the Whitehouse saying that coal gets washed into "clean coal" which is then environmentally friendly to burn.
It's just like Bitcoin except with all these additional features: - No traction - No recognition in the industry - Large pre-mined scam from the inventors
and it addressed one of the biggest shortcomings of bitcoin: Power usage... by making it unoptimisable and worse,
Speak for yourself. Mine has received security updates this year, and according to the change log those were back-ported even to 4.4 Kitkat so you don't even have to have upgraded to Lollipop to be "supported".
Most people are happy with drawing a 'Z' on the front of their screens or using 0000 as the password. That doesn't negate the security needs of some specific people... people who may buy into the Apple marketing of this new system being so incredibly secure.
Except that if you read the article, you'll see that this required a far more detailed scan of the face than could be recovered from stereoscopy alone.
Or maybe they just require more than 2 weeks of tinkering with it. Think about what you just said. If you need something better than stereoscopy to fool a stereoscopy based system then you haven't put the right amount of effort in.
It's not like the iPhone X can see the back of your head or something.
So Apple will fail in 10 years therefore Cook is a bad CEO today? That dog won't hunt...snip... So because MS and Yahoo failed, therefore Apple will fail? Another non-hunting dog.
No. Not at all. I made no hypothesis or prediction what so ever. I said that based on what you wrote you can't prove he's a good CEO. Now you've gone right into the next logical fallacy and not only put words in my mouth but in doing so yet again attempted to prove a negative.
Right now Apple is making money for its investors and suppliers and employing a lot of people.
Yep just like Yahoo did right until it ceased existing. A company making money for its investors is dependent on a wide array of variables, none of which directly point to how "good" a CEO is. The job of a CEO is to drive long term future strategy. The evaluation of that CEO takes many years and extends to several years after their tenure with some key exceptions, dramatic shifts in market. That can be analysed in the short term. I.e. When Apple stopped producing childish fluro coloured products and started producing serious products, creating an entire market for itself in 2 categories, and boosting its earnings and market share in the early 2000s it was a short term indication of a good CEO.
Since Jobs died Apple has changed and innovated nothing effectively pointing to Cook as being a CEO who specialises in only keeping wheels turning. This puts them on a slow path of analysis and we won't know for a long time if he was good or bad.
WTH? E-mail is one of the easiest systems to NOT use any Windows-specific software with --- in fact, the more mature implementations of SMTP and IMAP servers run on Linux and much more robustly, than those pieces of shit called 'Exchange' and 'Outlook'.
Look next time just post: "I have no idea what I'm talking about". It would be easier on everyone.
Comparing IMAP/SMTP to an Outlook Exchange combination is like comparing chalk and a 5 course degustation de fromage. The two are so remotely different in capability and administration that it makes me wonder if you've ever administered an email server or have ever actually used outlook in a corporate environment.
Seriously.... 800 "Needed" Windows programs? WTF. I call BS.
And now you're showing just how little you know about the public sector.
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Unless someone pays for it.
Sorry I thought the whole justification for moving to Linux in the first place was to stop paying for Windows.
A common, and fatal, mistake. They're trying to keep using Microsoft Exchange
An even more fatal mistake would be migrating away from Exchange. Sorry but there is no alternative for that on Linux, not unless you have no idea what it does and think that Exchange is just an email system. Comparing it to Windows 95 era is quite telling to, migrating to Linux back then was far easier.
Modern Windows in a large corporation is a well integrated platform where each Microsoft application works with the other for central management and communication. Building an eco-system on Linux 20 years ago would be childsplay compared to justifying moving away from Microsoft now.
In 15 years, any _their_ (as in bespoke) applications could have been rewritten 3-5 times in their entirety.
It's usually not the government's job to write applications. In 15 years companies could have popped up servicing that need. But they didn't. The idea that a government then needs to spend money to re-write applications kind of defeats the whole cost based reason for switching to Linux in the first place.
Roll the clock back six months, didn't I read about this before?
I give it 10 days for another article to come out saying "No, we're staying with Linux."
Yes you did, but for the past 5 years it has been squarely consistent in content: Moving away from Linux. Just because it's constantly in the headlines and people have short attention spans, doesn't mean anyone is flipflopping on the issues.
They've found at least in the case of laptops that have cellular enabled wireless, disabling your network interface does nothing because the IME has direct access and control over the wireless radio.
And yet IME does not actually listen or respond to cellular interfaces. It does have control but that's about it. If you did have a point it was diminished by the fact that you believe a tiny battery will power fully functioning network interfaces / cellular modems.
Because: democracy does not work!
Democracy works just fine. People hysterically and ignorantly will vote against their own collective self interest. That's why so much government is deferred to experts.
Case in point: Everything you have just said. It has stifled an entire industry which would have fantastically responded to the current global warming crisis. It is the equivalent of banning cars because they didn't have seatbelts and airbags rather than letting an industry safely progress. Ironically the German chemical industry left largely untouched is at the forefront of process safety development, and I wonder how much of this was due to the distraction posed by the nukular rhadyation!
In the mean time I'm just glad the winds typically blow from west to east around here. On the occasion where they blow the opposite way there's a hell of a foul stench blowing from Ruhr area. Good going mate, stick it to the government while you choke on your air.
By the way since you're passionately speaking about the topic I will assume you're German so a bit of advice when structuring an argument in English: Name calling doesn't make people feel bad, but it instantly shows a panic and lack of coherence in your post. If you had a point in your post, consider it ignored.
Very little functionality has been lost. Web-extensions can do most of the things the old API could. If you're missing something maybe you should complain to whoever chose not to maintain your extension, and by extension (pun intended) be thankful that they are finally getting forced to do a code review as the cesspool of poorly written buggy memory leaking garbage extensions that haven't been updated in a long time is well and truly overdue to be scrubbed out with chlorine.
For me, the new Firefox isn't missing a single feature of the previous one. Unless you count and insecure and slow add-on API that has held back development for many years as a "feature".
The speed of Firefox was not a big issue for me. It was usually "fast enough."
Speed was the reason I stopped using it. Well a crash was the reason I stopped using it, but speed is what made me decide to just start using Chrome instead of restarting Firefox.
It may be fast enough for your workload, but it has for a while now held a title that we haven't handed out to someone other than Microsoft in a long time, it was SLOW, especially when loading complex pages or with many tabs open.
When it loses the whole POINT of the program?
It hasn't. Add-on and extension eco-system is still there and better than ever. Now developers can write extensions that more seamlessly cross into other browsers making it more enticing to create them. They are also faster, more secure, result in less memory leaks and basically stopped doing a whole lot of shitty things that we blamed Firefox for.
If your developer cares he will port (unless you want to change the UI, there's a few things Web Extensions can't do). Most of the popular stuff is already there. More will come.
If anything it is a good purge of the sewer of abandoned buggy shit extensions that developers didn't care to put any effort into.
Except it no longer respects your freedom to customize the UI
If I had to vote for my freedom to have really high performance and your freedom to customize the UI, you will lose (or likely we'll be 50:50).
It's not like they just removed it for shits and giggles.
So is that kind of time investment to unlock what I presume to be one of the best characters in the game really unreasonable?
Best characters? I think you're misunderstanding. It's just a character. Not only do you need to grind to get him, but if you do so in the 40 hours chances are you going to have a cool character and absolutely nothing to keep that character alive.
I don't think the backlash is as much that it takes 40 hours to get an awesome character, it's that it takes much more AND you can bypass that all for a small fee.
It's even more difficult if playing the hero is something that the financially privileged rather than the dedicated fan is capable of.
Sorry but not even close. The nuclear FUD in Germany is well and truly a grass roots campaign led mostly by those who lived through the hysteria of Chernobyl. The world was largely comfortable with the idea of nuclear power maintaining the status quo right until the Japan incident. That started new fears of "if they can't even do it".
No need for the coal industry to get involved. The actual protests on the ground and the driving force from the people in Germany who have no concept of risk management and just know they are surrounded by these nukular things they don't understand was incredible. Protesters number in the hundreds of thousands there and after the Fukushima incident they even managed to form a 45km long human chain.
Never underestimate the power of ignorance combined with technical media reporting. The coal industry hasn't had to spend a dime in Germany battling nuclear, not since the 80s anyway.
How horrific does the pollution from a plant have to be before regulators in China shut it down?
Don't bring 2000 era daft bias into the conversation. Every society has followed the same path, from the USA to Germany, Japanese, and now Chinese. There were borderline uninhabitable places in major US cities due to pollution from lack of environmental regulation. Where are they now? Cleaned up as the economy evolved and the country transitioned.
China is going through much of the same. Major investment in green technologies, major incentives to stop polluting, major incentives and regulations to clean up cities. Right now they are battling with the laggard problem of major corruption which is why factories are being closed to force the issue of non-compliance.
Fun side anecdote: My company was going to build a new coal fired steam boiler at one of our Chinese plants, as horrifying as that thought was. It was the government that said no we'd lose out license to operate if we didn't fire it with nat gas from the new pipeline they were building down to the chemical park. Oh and all the other companies down there were then given a 5 year deadline to switch to natgas away from coal / oil.
Welcome to the new China. The oid China is now sitting in the Whitehouse saying that coal gets washed into "clean coal" which is then environmentally friendly to burn.
If it cannot work on it's own, then it is of no use to me.
Like say an online discussion board?
Your claim is absurd. There are countless applications which fundamentally require interconnection to work.
It's just like Bitcoin except with all these additional features:
- No traction
- No recognition in the industry
- Large pre-mined scam from the inventors
and it addressed one of the biggest shortcomings of bitcoin: Power usage ... by making it unoptimisable and worse,
which would also include your S4
Speak for yourself. Mine has received security updates this year, and according to the change log those were back-ported even to 4.4 Kitkat so you don't even have to have upgraded to Lollipop to be "supported".
Face recognition does not require any additional hardware
What an absurd claim given the amount of hardware on the front of the phone specifically put there for the sole purpose of FaceID.
You can't replicate my fingerprints from a picture of me that you found on facebook.
Come out drinking with me, I'll have a detailed print from both your hands on your desk by the morning.
Or ... just go for a toilet break. I can get them from your mouse too while you're not looking.
Still, for most people
Most people are happy with drawing a 'Z' on the front of their screens or using 0000 as the password. That doesn't negate the security needs of some specific people ... people who may buy into the Apple marketing of this new system being so incredibly secure.
Except that if you read the article, you'll see that this required a far more detailed scan of the face than could be recovered from stereoscopy alone.
Or maybe they just require more than 2 weeks of tinkering with it. Think about what you just said. If you need something better than stereoscopy to fool a stereoscopy based system then you haven't put the right amount of effort in.
It's not like the iPhone X can see the back of your head or something.
So Apple will fail in 10 years therefore Cook is a bad CEO today? That dog won't hunt. ..snip...
So because MS and Yahoo failed, therefore Apple will fail? Another non-hunting dog.
No. Not at all. I made no hypothesis or prediction what so ever. I said that based on what you wrote you can't prove he's a good CEO. Now you've gone right into the next logical fallacy and not only put words in my mouth but in doing so yet again attempted to prove a negative.
Right now Apple is making money for its investors and suppliers and employing a lot of people.
Yep just like Yahoo did right until it ceased existing. A company making money for its investors is dependent on a wide array of variables, none of which directly point to how "good" a CEO is. The job of a CEO is to drive long term future strategy. The evaluation of that CEO takes many years and extends to several years after their tenure with some key exceptions, dramatic shifts in market. That can be analysed in the short term. I.e. When Apple stopped producing childish fluro coloured products and started producing serious products, creating an entire market for itself in 2 categories, and boosting its earnings and market share in the early 2000s it was a short term indication of a good CEO.
Since Jobs died Apple has changed and innovated nothing effectively pointing to Cook as being a CEO who specialises in only keeping wheels turning. This puts them on a slow path of analysis and we won't know for a long time if he was good or bad.
It's somewhat ironic that you express the need to define a rather common term (stupid)
It's not ironic at all. It's quite sad actually. But given the responses in this thread maybe I'm just dealing with ... stupid people.
WTH? E-mail is one of the easiest systems to NOT use any Windows-specific software with --- in fact, the more mature implementations of SMTP and IMAP servers run on Linux and much more robustly, than those pieces of shit called 'Exchange' and 'Outlook'.
Look next time just post: "I have no idea what I'm talking about". It would be easier on everyone.
Comparing IMAP/SMTP to an Outlook Exchange combination is like comparing chalk and a 5 course degustation de fromage. The two are so remotely different in capability and administration that it makes me wonder if you've ever administered an email server or have ever actually used outlook in a corporate environment.
Seriously.... 800 "Needed" Windows programs? WTF. I call BS.
And now you're showing just how little you know about the public sector.
my experience they pretty much exclude each other
So just ignoring fact then. There's sound logical thinking right there.