Windows 7 certainly was an improvement over Vista and XP when it came out. However, it's behind or lacks: NFC printing, wireless printing, UEFI, mobile and decent battery life, touch tablet and hybrid support, TPM security, decent built in desktop MDM mobile device management enrollment profile, linux walk and container support, and virtualization solutions.
It's from late last decade and was a great desktop OS for the hardware as long as it wasn't mobile as the kernel was not optimized on 7. But times move on. The Linux wsl and hyper-V are awesome for IT professionals here. VMWARE work station has been gutted by Dell and us on it's way out
Turn them off. Hint: Google store and app suggestion settings.
10 pro has hyper-V which more than makes up the price besides delayed feature updates. VMware workstation is expensive and fucking Dell depcriates the last version of Windows 10 forcing a $200 upgrade every 6 months!!
It's more than that. Mellinials have this belief that only they can have fresh ideas and energy that old folks lack. This is most pervasive in young HR and managerial groups.
When I was 26 I wanted to change the world and thought old people were stupid and only were there due to seniority.
(4) The non IT geeks, but financial and statistician math nerds LOVE Toad and all the cute dashboards of real time business intelligence they can impress their MBA friends with.
To them it's not psql but the other tools that no competitor besides Microsoft has.
They are the ones who think they can boss IT around and get it done because they like their tools and IT will obey or be outsourced.
Apple really wrote the first HTML 5 draft as HTML 4.01 was too cutting edge for IE appearrently back in 2007 back in the first iPhone. Google quickly hopped on board and Firefox was eager to follow if everyone agreed to a standard. Google now is taking leadership but objects like canvas were central.
True it took until 2014 when old IE verion 8 went eol before it became mainstream. If the first iPhone didn't come out we might of still been using HTML 4.
Apple really is not updating Safari anymore after Steve's death. They don't need to as people moved on and they can't cotail off Chrome anymore since webkit got forked into blink. But back in the day IOS and safari were cutting edge.
When you install SQL Server or Oracle you have the option to install Business AI and Excel plugins like smart view to connect to your data and autogeneration of reports scripts and Java apis to do ERP and other things. It stopped being just a table 20 years ago.
This creat a lock-in but also non programmer financial analysts who live and die by the tools to generate cute dashboards and detailed Excel outputs for the MBA bosses. Postgrsql is a cute database. No more no less.
Really this is an example of Foss starting out great and ahead but then falling behind by a few decades. Oracle and MS saw the threat 20 years ago with MySQL and others like Paradox and Sybase SQL so a while ecosystem of templates and apps were made for the MBAs and this is how then won.
Apple did give us HTML 5 and kill flash. THANK GOD. IE 6 was killing all innovation last decade and it refused to ever die. The iphone and demand to view their shitty IE 6 only sites on it propelled HTML 5 as Firefox itself wasn't enough to kill of IE 6 specific CSS and javascript hacks.
The reason for this was the mere 128K of ram wasn't enough back in 1984 to have the mac do all what Steve Jobs wanted it to do. The answer was a custom ROM chip with part of MacOS on it to clear out more ram for apps. Hell, the original Mac even had a chip just for freaking icon processing.
The Apple boot sequence was put on the ROM to conserve the ram.
"Oracle representatives had suggested the customers strike the deals to avoid expensive audits of how they were using Oracle software, according to the employee. Instead, that approach to selling cloud is irritating customers,"
But are they irritated enough to bit the bullet, port their mission-critical processes to a non-Oracle database and kiss Oracle goodbye? (If not, they've knuckled under and are going to be locked in to Oracle's products and pricing forever - or at least until a later generation of their own management.)
If Oracle is already pressuring them to port to a different DB (their cloud product) they've got a golden opportunity. Yes it might be more effort to port to some other DB then Oracle's own "other DB". But much of the work to absorb any differences - the port, the testing, and the dual-DB cya period - will be the same in either case. So it's only an increment, rather than the whole price of a DB port, to go to a different DB.
... and switch to? The only thing equal is MS SQL Server which is also expensive and could do the same shit Oracle did.
No MySQL and PostGreSQL are not options unless you serve web content and do simple database stuff. People who buy MS SQL Server and Oracle use their AI, financial, and advanced reporting tools. Business Intelligence APIs are HUGE right now and it is also possible it is not them but their other software they purchased is using Oracle as a requirement.
In the old days when software was made in house you could avoid these problems. But the MBA's love packaged software for savings RIGHT NOW and this is what you get.
Oracle was always expensive as hell. They just were slightly cheaper than IBM's DB2 and didn't require an expensive IBM mainframe contract back in the 1980s. Larry's answer always was I had payroll to meet for my developers back then.
A company's goal is always to raise the shareprice forever with never an end in sight. The rest of the world is making money by selling to China in the past 20 years. Oracle unfortunately can't do this as Chinese do not pay for software so they need a new creative way to bump up the shareprice.
I am not a Gnu zealout by any sense of the means but being addicted to proprietary file formats is evil.
We all hate Microsoft for doing this but Oracle and IBM have been doing this long before MS rise and in my eyes is less evil than Oracle today. Microsoft at least gives you the bone if you go to Azure and Office 365 by including other features and tools vs buying a copy.
It is no different than ransomware once you are hooked. If your customer data or a MUST HAVE mission critical app has an Oracle dependency using proprietary PSQL your choices are to pay the ransom to Oracle, get sued, or shut your company down. Take your pick?
Halliburton probably figured it would be cheaper to fight in court then pay the ransom as they have lots of money and I would guess seat licenses that Oracle is drooling to charge.
Meanwhile IT costs keep going up even though technology should make them go down. They just lay us off and replace us with Indians and pay Larry Ellison the difference.
The poor man needs a car to get to work. Want to pay $10,000 in taxes?? I don't. The poor person needs to eat and pay rent. Even if the poor man can't own his landlord pays high taxes on the buying of the apartment which he will pass on to his tenant. The poor person vs the rich still buy the same amount of toasters and the cost of simple goods become more unequal. That is why it is regressive. Worse, it hits employers as people will naturally consume less to save money.
Also, we had a minimalist government back in the 19th century funded by tariffs which is true. Today we are global and things are different. If we did tarrifs again it would cream us as other countries with NAFTA will retaliate by hitting us back on tariffs from the USA to their countries. Chinese companies will take over as their products will be seen as even cheaper to American company products. Back then people bought from other farmers more and didn't need things outside our country as much.
We had a military more like the national guard, we didn't have pensions, we didn't need expensive healthcare, we didn't need an educated workforce, we didn't even have a road system. Infact railroads were funded by corporations and investors. Today they lobby the government to have the tax payers pay for their costs while they collect the profits. The workforce was uneducated and more rural and farm based. To get a degree meant you got rich and were privileged. Today's jobs require advanced knowledge to be somewhat competent in the office. Outside the office? Not much opportunity. Machines and cheap foreignors work our fields. Our factories are in China. The only work is office for most people.
If you want to argue against taxes you need to cut government spending as well. The Republican party loves to make fun of tax and spend liberals but never cuts military spending. Reagan increased the size of government quite well.
You can argue it is stealing but in reality it is a public good as some can't be privatized. The military is a classic example. If you want security you can pay for it but why should I etc?
I am even as a liberal more than willing to gut everything and start fresh. Believe it or not leechers and those on subsistence are a tiny fraction of the budget and even if you are (I don't know you) more libertarian or conservative I think you can agree you would rather have some dollars go to a struggling divorced Mom looking for work vs paying for Walmart's national headquarters?
Milton Friedman hates all taxes and is a libertarian hero economist. He mentioned the least terrible tax would be an real estate tax. That way as the value of land goes up so will revenue and it doesn't hurt consumption of goods. People can choose to live in tiny apartments or McMansions when it comes to paying the government. I am partially open to this idea. What do you think?
Funny they blame mellinials for being lazy and taking on student loan debt. After they paid there's part time at McDonalds so why can't they do the same not realizing inflation has skyrocketed
You need to pay taxes. Militaries don't just magically pay themselves. Teachers don't magically pay themselves. Roads and bridges don't magically appear. Pensions don't magically get paid.
These things cost money. That is part of life no different than your rent or mortgage or food. That's part of the deal for living in society.
Now a fair tax is anything but and is regressive and encouraged people not to spend and grow the economy. This hurts your employer. What we have is more fair to those less fortunate as well as those starting off.
Taxes have been cut many times since Reagan and caused debt.
It's the government artificially lowering interest rates. It's illegal aliens swamping the area taking away supply. It's also jobs concentrating more in the top cities who already have expensive prices. Regular population growth and investors jerking up prices have all contributed.
Until supply increases, interest rates go up, jobs move to smaller cities , people stop having 5 kids, and enforcement of the border, the prices will go back down.
Cheap foreign labor and ability to move money to the lowest cost centers in terms of taxes and labor costs enrich the CEOs.
In addition CEOs work for the shareholders on Wall Street. Not their employers. Cheap debt thanks to low interest rates inflated the stock market. CEOs get paid more because Wall Street gives them bonuses from the stock market.
Half of American employee costs go to healthcare! Think about that for a minute?? If you pull $70,000 a year that means your employer pays another $70,000 in health care! You cost $140,000 a year. An Indian cost $45,000 a year. Who you're gonna hire?
Factory work? That makes more sense to outsource. The CEO gets his Wall Street package and the company saves a fortune. People then fight to work at McDonald's if they have highschool diplomas which employers lower wages due to excessive supply
What's going on is people look after their own self interests. If you don't then someone else will whether it's a company owner lobbying a politician to move your job overseas or take away PTO or your neighbor mad at the Government for allowing outsourcing he votes for Trump even if he doesn't do anything about it to give liberals the finger for shits and giggles.
Nice guys do finish last.
Also the current economy has alot of complex things happen to create this situation. Cheap money aka loans are a big part of the decline too. You can thank banking deregulation plus government getting too involved as well with artificially low interest rates for raising prices and indebting mellinials to car and student loans.
Things have improved tremendously since the Windows XP era in terms of Windows and app security. Also people tend to use adblockers and flash isn't on by default on newer systems.
Adobe now has sandboxing and Windows gets new security updates each month. IT departments now update software regularly and people use ancient IE almost never outside of a Citrix or vdi environment.
The use of AV software to protect idiots who click on everything is unheard of as people know better now than in 2000.
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Windows 7 certainly was an improvement over Vista and XP when it came out. However, it's behind or lacks: NFC printing, wireless printing, UEFI, mobile and decent battery life, touch tablet and hybrid support, TPM security, decent built in desktop MDM mobile device management enrollment profile, linux walk and container support, and virtualization solutions.
It's from late last decade and was a great desktop OS for the hardware as long as it wasn't mobile as the kernel was not optimized on 7. But times move on. The Linux wsl and hyper-V are awesome for IT professionals here. VMWARE work station has been gutted by Dell and us on it's way out
Turn them off. Hint: Google store and app suggestion settings.
10 pro has hyper-V which more than makes up the price besides delayed feature updates. VMware workstation is expensive and fucking Dell depcriates the last version of Windows 10 forcing a $200 upgrade every 6 months!!
It's more than that. Mellinials have this belief that only they can have fresh ideas and energy that old folks lack. This is most pervasive in young HR and managerial groups.
When I was 26 I wanted to change the world and thought old people were stupid and only were there due to seniority.
No fresh ideas. The old hate change and the young have drive to change the world said every 25 year old HR manager ever?
(4) The non IT geeks, but financial and statistician math nerds LOVE Toad and all the cute dashboards of real time business intelligence they can impress their MBA friends with.
To them it's not psql but the other tools that no competitor besides Microsoft has.
They are the ones who think they can boss IT around and get it done because they like their tools and IT will obey or be outsourced.
Apple really wrote the first HTML 5 draft as HTML 4.01 was too cutting edge for IE appearrently back in 2007 back in the first iPhone. Google quickly hopped on board and Firefox was eager to follow if everyone agreed to a standard. Google now is taking leadership but objects like canvas were central.
True it took until 2014 when old IE verion 8 went eol before it became mainstream. If the first iPhone didn't come out we might of still been using HTML 4.
Apple really is not updating Safari anymore after Steve's death. They don't need to as people moved on and they can't cotail off Chrome anymore since webkit got forked into blink. But back in the day IOS and safari were cutting edge.
When you install SQL Server or Oracle you have the option to install Business AI and Excel plugins like smart view to connect to your data and autogeneration of reports scripts and Java apis to do ERP and other things. It stopped being just a table 20 years ago.
This creat a lock-in but also non programmer financial analysts who live and die by the tools to generate cute dashboards and detailed Excel outputs for the MBA bosses. Postgrsql is a cute database. No more no less.
Really this is an example of Foss starting out great and ahead but then falling behind by a few decades. Oracle and MS saw the threat 20 years ago with MySQL and others like Paradox and Sybase SQL so a while ecosystem of templates and apps were made for the MBAs and this is how then won.
Apple did give us HTML 5 and kill flash. THANK GOD. IE 6 was killing all innovation last decade and it refused to ever die. The iphone and demand to view their shitty IE 6 only sites on it propelled HTML 5 as Firefox itself wasn't enough to kill of IE 6 specific CSS and javascript hacks.
The reason for this was the mere 128K of ram wasn't enough back in 1984 to have the mac do all what Steve Jobs wanted it to do. The answer was a custom ROM chip with part of MacOS on it to clear out more ram for apps. Hell, the original Mac even had a chip just for freaking icon processing.
The Apple boot sequence was put on the ROM to conserve the ram.
"Oracle representatives had suggested the customers strike the deals to avoid expensive audits of how they were using Oracle software, according to the employee. Instead, that approach to selling cloud is irritating customers,"
But are they irritated enough to bit the bullet, port their mission-critical processes to a non-Oracle database and kiss Oracle goodbye? (If not, they've knuckled under and are going to be locked in to Oracle's products and pricing forever - or at least until a later generation of their own management.)
If Oracle is already pressuring them to port to a different DB (their cloud product) they've got a golden opportunity. Yes it might be more effort to port to some other DB then Oracle's own "other DB". But much of the work to absorb any differences - the port, the testing, and the dual-DB cya period - will be the same in either case. So it's only an increment, rather than the whole price of a DB port, to go to a different DB.
... and switch to? The only thing equal is MS SQL Server which is also expensive and could do the same shit Oracle did.
No MySQL and PostGreSQL are not options unless you serve web content and do simple database stuff. People who buy MS SQL Server and Oracle use their AI, financial, and advanced reporting tools. Business Intelligence APIs are HUGE right now and it is also possible it is not them but their other software they purchased is using Oracle as a requirement.
In the old days when software was made in house you could avoid these problems. But the MBA's love packaged software for savings RIGHT NOW and this is what you get.
Oracle was always expensive as hell. They just were slightly cheaper than IBM's DB2 and didn't require an expensive IBM mainframe contract back in the 1980s. Larry's answer always was I had payroll to meet for my developers back then.
A company's goal is always to raise the shareprice forever with never an end in sight. The rest of the world is making money by selling to China in the past 20 years. Oracle unfortunately can't do this as Chinese do not pay for software so they need a new creative way to bump up the shareprice.
I am not a Gnu zealout by any sense of the means but being addicted to proprietary file formats is evil.
We all hate Microsoft for doing this but Oracle and IBM have been doing this long before MS rise and in my eyes is less evil than Oracle today. Microsoft at least gives you the bone if you go to Azure and Office 365 by including other features and tools vs buying a copy.
It is no different than ransomware once you are hooked. If your customer data or a MUST HAVE mission critical app has an Oracle dependency using proprietary PSQL your choices are to pay the ransom to Oracle, get sued, or shut your company down. Take your pick?
Halliburton probably figured it would be cheaper to fight in court then pay the ransom as they have lots of money and I would guess seat licenses that Oracle is drooling to charge.
Meanwhile IT costs keep going up even though technology should make them go down. They just lay us off and replace us with Indians and pay Larry Ellison the difference.
The poor man needs a car to get to work. Want to pay $10,000 in taxes?? I don't. The poor person needs to eat and pay rent. Even if the poor man can't own his landlord pays high taxes on the buying of the apartment which he will pass on to his tenant. The poor person vs the rich still buy the same amount of toasters and the cost of simple goods become more unequal. That is why it is regressive. Worse, it hits employers as people will naturally consume less to save money.
Also, we had a minimalist government back in the 19th century funded by tariffs which is true. Today we are global and things are different. If we did tarrifs again it would cream us as other countries with NAFTA will retaliate by hitting us back on tariffs from the USA to their countries. Chinese companies will take over as their products will be seen as even cheaper to American company products. Back then people bought from other farmers more and didn't need things outside our country as much.
We had a military more like the national guard, we didn't have pensions, we didn't need expensive healthcare, we didn't need an educated workforce, we didn't even have a road system. Infact railroads were funded by corporations and investors. Today they lobby the government to have the tax payers pay for their costs while they collect the profits. The workforce was uneducated and more rural and farm based. To get a degree meant you got rich and were privileged. Today's jobs require advanced knowledge to be somewhat competent in the office. Outside the office? Not much opportunity. Machines and cheap foreignors work our fields. Our factories are in China. The only work is office for most people.
If you want to argue against taxes you need to cut government spending as well. The Republican party loves to make fun of tax and spend liberals but never cuts military spending. Reagan increased the size of government quite well.
You can argue it is stealing but in reality it is a public good as some can't be privatized. The military is a classic example. If you want security you can pay for it but why should I etc?
I am even as a liberal more than willing to gut everything and start fresh. Believe it or not leechers and those on subsistence are a tiny fraction of the budget and even if you are (I don't know you) more libertarian or conservative I think you can agree you would rather have some dollars go to a struggling divorced Mom looking for work vs paying for Walmart's national headquarters?
Milton Friedman hates all taxes and is a libertarian hero economist. He mentioned the least terrible tax would be an real estate tax. That way as the value of land goes up so will revenue and it doesn't hurt consumption of goods. People can choose to live in tiny apartments or McMansions when it comes to paying the government. I am partially open to this idea. What do you think?
Funny they blame mellinials for being lazy and taking on student loan debt. After they paid there's part time at McDonalds so why can't they do the same not realizing inflation has skyrocketed
You need to pay taxes. Militaries don't just magically pay themselves. Teachers don't magically pay themselves. Roads and bridges don't magically appear. Pensions don't magically get paid.
These things cost money. That is part of life no different than your rent or mortgage or food. That's part of the deal for living in society.
Now a fair tax is anything but and is regressive and encouraged people not to spend and grow the economy. This hurts your employer. What we have is more fair to those less fortunate as well as those starting off.
Taxes have been cut many times since Reagan and caused debt.
It's not just something the government pushing.
It's the government artificially lowering interest rates. It's illegal aliens swamping the area taking away supply. It's also jobs concentrating more in the top cities who already have expensive prices. Regular population growth and investors jerking up prices have all contributed.
Until supply increases, interest rates go up, jobs move to smaller cities , people stop having 5 kids, and enforcement of the border, the prices will go back down.
You both overlook the obvious.
Cheap foreign labor and ability to move money to the lowest cost centers in terms of taxes and labor costs enrich the CEOs.
In addition CEOs work for the shareholders on Wall Street. Not their employers. Cheap debt thanks to low interest rates inflated the stock market. CEOs get paid more because Wall Street gives them bonuses from the stock market.
Half of American employee costs go to healthcare! Think about that for a minute?? If you pull $70,000 a year that means your employer pays another $70,000 in health care! You cost $140,000 a year. An Indian cost $45,000 a year. Who you're gonna hire?
Factory work? That makes more sense to outsource. The CEO gets his Wall Street package and the company saves a fortune. People then fight to work at McDonald's if they have highschool diplomas which employers lower wages due to excessive supply
Voters don't care if he brings them back. They are very angry with distrustful towards the government.
They want to give a finger to the establishment and media and have everyone else go down with them as they lost so the rich should suffer too.
Integrity and honesty doesn't pay the bills.
What's going on is people look after their own self interests. If you don't then someone else will whether it's a company owner lobbying a politician to move your job overseas or take away PTO or your neighbor mad at the Government for allowing outsourcing he votes for Trump even if he doesn't do anything about it to give liberals the finger for shits and giggles.
Nice guys do finish last.
Also the current economy has alot of complex things happen to create this situation. Cheap money aka loans are a big part of the decline too. You can thank banking deregulation plus government getting too involved as well with artificially low interest rates for raising prices and indebting mellinials to car and student loans.
Things have improved tremendously since the Windows XP era in terms of Windows and app security. Also people tend to use adblockers and flash isn't on by default on newer systems.
Adobe now has sandboxing and Windows gets new security updates each month. IT departments now update software regularly and people use ancient IE almost never outside of a Citrix or vdi environment.
The use of AV software to protect idiots who click on everything is unheard of as people know better now than in 2000.
I mostly watch his atheist videos but he talks about Creationists obsession with the eye and how octopus evolved in an easy to understand video geared for children.
He is an excellent teacher but he talks about ancestors to modern octopuses by the eye differences.
Cat was around even earlier. Bahoo you younglings. I do not need features and use pipe when cat displays too much info in a terminal
Well I just use cat. I am lazy
Never underestimate the effect of Fox News and the millions who listen to Rush, Hanity, and others on Facebook and AM radio.
Fox is the number one watched infonews station and it impacts people's views
Yet 23 indicements and counting from the Mueller investigation and testimony from the CIA says otherwise.
Get off of Foxnews