I am much more likely to buy something off Google or one of their partners if I have a Chromecast than if I don't. I won't have one at this rate. Good luck selling me something for something I won't buy.
Lemmings and Sheeple on the other hand... have fun!
All of the redundancy you just mentioned, is now available in VMWARE, abstracted away so that the Hardware practically doesn't matter any longer (as long as it is x86/x64). A failed CPU on a VMWARE box would cause the machines to migrate over to a standby, and be up and running before anyone even knew. And I would get a notification and swap out the blade out of the chassis and be ready for the next "fail over".
As for the upgrading of hardware without ever downing a system, that is easy. VMWARE already handles that by migrading the virtualized box off the affected machine, you upgrade (add ram, CPU etc), reconfigure the VMWARE stack and migrate back. I can migrate the data stores with live data as well. I've replaced both Hardware(CPU, RAM) and Drives Systems(Equalogic to Nimble) while machines were running. This has nothing to do with "Linux" being able to handle it, since VMWARE does it without "Linux" (or Free BSD, Windows...) ever knowing.
I won't install Server on bare metal ever again. It is more expensive to install on bare metal, but only if you value your time.
I have Microsoft accounts as backup to my google accounts. I can do anything on them, other than G+, that I can do on Google. The problem is, I don't use them...ever. A one to five minute outage, might disrupt me long enough to get a cup of coffee, or stop Hacking Portals long enough to actually look at what it actually is IRL.
You can take the HSR and travel from SF to LA in something like 4-5 hours. It has too many stops along the way to be efficient. And if you factor the costs of the tickets, it is cheaper and faster to fly. There is no benefit to a 200 MPH "HSR" system over conventional flying, other than liberal bias of Trains over planes. My guess, is that even liberals who don't like planes will still take them over trains given the two options. Which means they will target the Airline industry with new taxes and regulations designed to put the airline industry out of business OR increase Taxpayer funded subsidies for HSR, or Both.
HSR never made economic sense, even at original budgeting. It is already over budget which only makes things worse. But that doesn't matter to the liberals providing union jobs on a economic boondoggle work project
Oceans are nice, but there is a huge problem with oceans. They tend to be made of this highly corrosive material called Salt Water. Additionally, various forms of sealife tend to attach themselves to anything and everything under water. Lastly, you'll have people who talk about some shrimp that you'll disrupt or some whale that won't like the noise and... well... Good Luck!
I am not opposed to ads. I'm opposed to ads using loud obnoxious flashing popup, popunder, Malware spewing crap that reminds me of the days of Geocities websites. The ad companies have done this to themselves, I have NO sympathy for them.
The rule of asshole applies here. Assholes are assholes, because they think they can get away with it. When people stop dealing with assholes, they become irate that they have no friends and whine about how everyone hates them and how the world is unfair to them. And they ruin it for the people who are doing things right. In short, assholes ruin things for everyone, including themselves, they just don't care, hence why they are assholes.
There isn't enough time or energy in this life for me to want to deal with assholes. I view assholes as damage and route around them. It they whine in the process, I don't care.
Yeah, when GWB was president and they could pin it on him. However, now that their guy is in office, they go silent. I remember the daily scandals of GWB presidency being announced. Today, it is MSNBC coverage of "Fox News" (aka "Faux News") take masquerading as "news". And Obama's in depth interviews are done by the likes of Jay Leno, a comedian talk show host.
Every stand alone Email Client is an SMTP server, with limited relay capability. YOU can use a SMTP server on Comcast network, just not a "public one".
Set up your own domain, with your own SMTP server, is perfectly within the guidelines you just quoted. Key phrase "anyone outside of your premises".
Trade Federation: "Is it Legal" Senator Palpatine: "I will make it legal"
Legality is the buzzword of tyrants. Almost everything Hitler did was legal. AND he was democratically elected. This is the problem with tyrannies, is they don't usually happen overnight.
And trust me, I have enough (R) and (D) friends to know, that most of these people can agree that the government has too much snooping power. The problem is, they see the other (R) and (D) as the enemy, and those in power like it that way, and keep marching us towards tyranny. But Bread* and Circuses** keeps the masses happy enough to not really change.
*Government handouts are slavery. **Kardashians and Royal Babies distract us from the "phoney scandals" in a two pronged approach of distractions. It is, however, entertaining!
... and gets a pass because he is a (D) and the press is (D) and not (R).
We have no fifth estate any longer. The MSM press is NOT an ally of the public interest. Not when they realized they could influence politics to their own benefit.
The real scandal in America is the Press. Obama is getting away with things the press would soundly criticize(rightly so) GWB on.
Quitting AOSP doesn't solve the problem. It makes it worse.
What we can do, is start a campaign of "name and shame", that starts asking key questions of Qualcomm spokesdrones, why?
And here is the real bits that should concern people, I rather doubt there is anything all that special about the blobs of code needed, or even the underlying hardware. Further, given the Copyright and Patents that SHOULD be protecting the "intellectual property" of Qualcomm, there is NOT A SINGLE REASON to release the code.
Even if the Lawyers want to be involved, how about writing a waver for AOSP so they can include the blobs needed, or the APIs to code themselves what is needed (probably showing up the crappy programmers at Qualcomm) etc etc etc.
There are plenty of ways around this issue, but if Qualcomm won't play nice, then it is time to start playing hardball. Believe me, a very loud "name and shame" Campaign would work. Here is just a one suggestion.
1) Android Apps detect if the device is running a Qualcomm chip (of any kind) and simply puts a blurb up that says "Your device is using Qualcomm Chips. Qualcomm doesn't fully support Android Open Source Projects, so please consider as part of your next Android Phone/Device one that doesn't use Qualcomm chips. Thank you.
It isn't enough to DMCA something. IF you have a copyrighted work, and GOOGLE uses it for commercial purposes, then sue them, and scraping an image (or whatever) to put into a database, which they offer for free, to sell advertising IS commercial use. Sue them. DMCA is just the first step in stopping their usage. SUE THEM for commercial use of your works.
Also, using the tools built into web standards (i.e. "robots.txt") is your friend. IF you post something copyrighted on the internet, it will be "stolen" by someone, somewhere (if it is interesting enough).
I know it isn't common to me. I said so. "Sales people said that was VERY common, that people cannot figure it out".
My point was more along the lines of "Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot, repeatedly" They don't seem to understand the problem, and keep pulling the trigger.
Magical mystery: How it was an inside job, coordinated in 9 months? Followed by it was a bunch of people coordinating an attack in 9 months. Freaking Amazing how you believe that 9/11 was GWB's fault. And here I thought GWB was a bumbling fool who was too stupid to be president, and you have him being a freaking GENIUS who caused people to blow up buildings, so he could implement Patriot Act, while ignoring that Obama as done Patriot Act on Steroids. Let me guess, that too was GWB's fault.
Sorry, but Obama is making the (R) GWB look like a saint.
The whole political disdain for all things (R) among the liberal elites here on/. is simply amazing to watch. What is unacceptable in an (R) is perfectly fine with Obama. The whole double standard the political duopoly in the US is schizophrenic, and very telling.
Windows 8 is a clusterfuck. My in-laws, who are quite computer savy for being 70, just bought a Windows 8 touch screen computer. It was wholly unusable. The interface was not Windows of the last 15 years, nor was it anything like Apple or Android. It was its own bastard version that was trying to be the best at everything while sucking at everything. They returned it.
Sales people said that was VERY common, that people cannot figure it out. It is an utter disaster for people who use Windows computers. So much so, that in this case, my in-laws are considering moving to Apple. They are done with Microsoft or Google Chrome.
Microsoft is driving people away, they cannot even give their products away. The thing of it is, NOBODY I know likes Windows 8. They might use it, but they have figure ways around the crappy interface. "Its not so bad if you _______" is the best complement in the form of a tip on how not to use Windows 8 as designed.
Many people are stuck on windows right now, but that is quickly changing. Microsoft had better figure out that it needs to fix the interface. Giving people a pseudo desktop interface doesn't count.
It happened in early Colonial America, Jamestown 1607-11 (google it). It failed because those that figured out early they would get fed no matter what, stopped working. And the others who were working for those that weren't slowly figured out the same thing, stopped working. It was nearly disastrous as people nearly starved. Where there is no incentive, there is failure.
Simple rule, if you can work, but choose not to, you don't eat. Everyone can contribute, and will get what they need, but those that work harder, smarter, better will and should be rewarded (more, better stuff).
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I am much more likely to buy something off Google or one of their partners if I have a Chromecast than if I don't. I won't have one at this rate. Good luck selling me something for something I won't buy.
Lemmings and Sheeple on the other hand ... have fun!
All of the redundancy you just mentioned, is now available in VMWARE, abstracted away so that the Hardware practically doesn't matter any longer (as long as it is x86/x64). A failed CPU on a VMWARE box would cause the machines to migrate over to a standby, and be up and running before anyone even knew. And I would get a notification and swap out the blade out of the chassis and be ready for the next "fail over".
As for the upgrading of hardware without ever downing a system, that is easy. VMWARE already handles that by migrading the virtualized box off the affected machine, you upgrade (add ram, CPU etc), reconfigure the VMWARE stack and migrate back. I can migrate the data stores with live data as well. I've replaced both Hardware(CPU, RAM) and Drives Systems(Equalogic to Nimble) while machines were running. This has nothing to do with "Linux" being able to handle it, since VMWARE does it without "Linux" (or Free BSD, Windows ...) ever knowing.
I won't install Server on bare metal ever again. It is more expensive to install on bare metal, but only if you value your time.
Flying DeLoreans!!!
I have Microsoft accounts as backup to my google accounts. I can do anything on them, other than G+, that I can do on Google. The problem is, I don't use them ...ever. A one to five minute outage, might disrupt me long enough to get a cup of coffee, or stop Hacking Portals long enough to actually look at what it actually is IRL.
You can take the HSR and travel from SF to LA in something like 4-5 hours. It has too many stops along the way to be efficient. And if you factor the costs of the tickets, it is cheaper and faster to fly. There is no benefit to a 200 MPH "HSR" system over conventional flying, other than liberal bias of Trains over planes. My guess, is that even liberals who don't like planes will still take them over trains given the two options. Which means they will target the Airline industry with new taxes and regulations designed to put the airline industry out of business OR increase Taxpayer funded subsidies for HSR, or Both.
HSR never made economic sense, even at original budgeting. It is already over budget which only makes things worse. But that doesn't matter to the liberals providing union jobs on a economic boondoggle work project
Oceans are nice, but there is a huge problem with oceans. They tend to be made of this highly corrosive material called Salt Water. Additionally, various forms of sealife tend to attach themselves to anything and everything under water. Lastly, you'll have people who talk about some shrimp that you'll disrupt or some whale that won't like the noise and ... well ... Good Luck!
Sheep are not people.
So, fake people want fake people to impress fake people. .... Why I don't "tweet"
I am not opposed to ads. I'm opposed to ads using loud obnoxious flashing popup, popunder, Malware spewing crap that reminds me of the days of Geocities websites. The ad companies have done this to themselves, I have NO sympathy for them.
The rule of asshole applies here. Assholes are assholes, because they think they can get away with it. When people stop dealing with assholes, they become irate that they have no friends and whine about how everyone hates them and how the world is unfair to them. And they ruin it for the people who are doing things right. In short, assholes ruin things for everyone, including themselves, they just don't care, hence why they are assholes.
There isn't enough time or energy in this life for me to want to deal with assholes. I view assholes as damage and route around them. It they whine in the process, I don't care.
Serious question. How come NO Press person has hammered the "phoney scandals" line? I mean not one.
When you can answer that, without saying "they are phoney scandals" ... then we'll talk.
Yeah, when GWB was president and they could pin it on him. However, now that their guy is in office, they go silent. I remember the daily scandals of GWB presidency being announced. Today, it is MSNBC coverage of "Fox News" (aka "Faux News") take masquerading as "news". And Obama's in depth interviews are done by the likes of Jay Leno, a comedian talk show host.
It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Every stand alone Email Client is an SMTP server, with limited relay capability. YOU can use a SMTP server on Comcast network, just not a "public one".
Set up your own domain, with your own SMTP server, is perfectly within the guidelines you just quoted. Key phrase "anyone outside of your premises".
Trade Federation: "Is it Legal"
Senator Palpatine: "I will make it legal"
Legality is the buzzword of tyrants. Almost everything Hitler did was legal. AND he was democratically elected. This is the problem with tyrannies, is they don't usually happen overnight.
And trust me, I have enough (R) and (D) friends to know, that most of these people can agree that the government has too much snooping power. The problem is, they see the other (R) and (D) as the enemy, and those in power like it that way, and keep marching us towards tyranny. But Bread* and Circuses** keeps the masses happy enough to not really change.
*Government handouts are slavery.
**Kardashians and Royal Babies distract us from the "phoney scandals" in a two pronged approach of distractions. It is, however, entertaining!
... and gets a pass because he is a (D) and the press is (D) and not (R).
We have no fifth estate any longer. The MSM press is NOT an ally of the public interest. Not when they realized they could influence politics to their own benefit.
The real scandal in America is the Press. Obama is getting away with things the press would soundly criticize(rightly so) GWB on.
No. But did you, when you voted for Obama, think that he was going to be worse than GWB?
Silly (D)s and (R)s, thinking their guy is somehow different than the other guy.
Substitute "Sex" for "Bitcoin" and see if this holds true.
Sex may be used to purchase goods and services, and more importantly, can be converted to conventional currencies, it is a form of currency
Yup, it fits. Sex is now under regulation of the SEC.
Quitting AOSP doesn't solve the problem. It makes it worse.
What we can do, is start a campaign of "name and shame", that starts asking key questions of Qualcomm spokesdrones, why?
And here is the real bits that should concern people, I rather doubt there is anything all that special about the blobs of code needed, or even the underlying hardware. Further, given the Copyright and Patents that SHOULD be protecting the "intellectual property" of Qualcomm, there is NOT A SINGLE REASON to release the code.
Even if the Lawyers want to be involved, how about writing a waver for AOSP so they can include the blobs needed, or the APIs to code themselves what is needed (probably showing up the crappy programmers at Qualcomm) etc etc etc.
There are plenty of ways around this issue, but if Qualcomm won't play nice, then it is time to start playing hardball. Believe me, a very loud "name and shame" Campaign would work. Here is just a one suggestion.
1) Android Apps detect if the device is running a Qualcomm chip (of any kind) and simply puts a blurb up that says "Your device is using Qualcomm Chips. Qualcomm doesn't fully support Android Open Source Projects, so please consider as part of your next Android Phone/Device one that doesn't use Qualcomm chips. Thank you.
It isn't enough to DMCA something. IF you have a copyrighted work, and GOOGLE uses it for commercial purposes, then sue them, and scraping an image (or whatever) to put into a database, which they offer for free, to sell advertising IS commercial use. Sue them. DMCA is just the first step in stopping their usage. SUE THEM for commercial use of your works.
Also, using the tools built into web standards (i.e. "robots.txt") is your friend. IF you post something copyrighted on the internet, it will be "stolen" by someone, somewhere (if it is interesting enough).
Intelligent comment. Exactly what I expect from a (D) lemming.
I know it isn't common to me. I said so. "Sales people said that was VERY common, that people cannot figure it out".
My point was more along the lines of "Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot, repeatedly" They don't seem to understand the problem, and keep pulling the trigger.
Magical mystery: How it was an inside job, coordinated in 9 months? Followed by it was a bunch of people coordinating an attack in 9 months. Freaking Amazing how you believe that 9/11 was GWB's fault. And here I thought GWB was a bumbling fool who was too stupid to be president, and you have him being a freaking GENIUS who caused people to blow up buildings, so he could implement Patriot Act, while ignoring that Obama as done Patriot Act on Steroids. Let me guess, that too was GWB's fault.
And I am not a (R). Nice try though.
Sorry, but Obama is making the (R) GWB look like a saint.
The whole political disdain for all things (R) among the liberal elites here on /. is simply amazing to watch. What is unacceptable in an (R) is perfectly fine with Obama. The whole double standard the political duopoly in the US is schizophrenic, and very telling.
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."
Windows 8 is a clusterfuck. My in-laws, who are quite computer savy for being 70, just bought a Windows 8 touch screen computer. It was wholly unusable. The interface was not Windows of the last 15 years, nor was it anything like Apple or Android. It was its own bastard version that was trying to be the best at everything while sucking at everything. They returned it.
Sales people said that was VERY common, that people cannot figure it out. It is an utter disaster for people who use Windows computers. So much so, that in this case, my in-laws are considering moving to Apple. They are done with Microsoft or Google Chrome.
Microsoft is driving people away, they cannot even give their products away. The thing of it is, NOBODY I know likes Windows 8. They might use it, but they have figure ways around the crappy interface. "Its not so bad if you _______" is the best complement in the form of a tip on how not to use Windows 8 as designed.
Many people are stuck on windows right now, but that is quickly changing. Microsoft had better figure out that it needs to fix the interface. Giving people a pseudo desktop interface doesn't count.
It happened in early Colonial America, Jamestown 1607-11 (google it). It failed because those that figured out early they would get fed no matter what, stopped working. And the others who were working for those that weren't slowly figured out the same thing, stopped working. It was nearly disastrous as people nearly starved. Where there is no incentive, there is failure.
Simple rule, if you can work, but choose not to, you don't eat. Everyone can contribute, and will get what they need, but those that work harder, smarter, better will and should be rewarded (more, better stuff).