I disagree on the "full-throttle" part. That's be fine on consumer desktops. But Linux is mostly about production servers. Yes, yes... I know... mainstream Linux on the desktop is "just around the corner" and all that.:)
I have no great love for sysV init scripts. Getting rid of them would break a few things in my world. But really, those things could probably stand a new look and update anyway. But my second-to-main issue with systemd is that it's just somewhat half-baked and obtuse. There's a lot of "don't look behind the curtain, just trust us that it'll work" to it. That'd be tolerable in a consumer OS, or even in a consumer-targeted Linux distort like Mint, but not in bloody RHEL and Debian!
My biggest gripe about systemd, though, is its counterpart in crime: journald. Binary log files are the work of the devil and journald needs to die in a fire. And no one... not even a couple of Red Hat engineers I've spoken with... has been able to give be a non-hackish, production-worthy, way of ripping journald out of the thing and replacing it with syslog.
Name one commercial version of Unix that still is supported that uses init?
Sco Unixware is the only thing that comes close but I do not htink it is supported anymore. Solaris left init in 2008 Apple left init in 2006 NetBSD left init for object oriented macros in init for a hybrid approach around 2007
If Init is so great why is everyone leaving?
The reason is init was not designed for desktops or servers with more than a dozen applications. What if your laptop goes to sleep and wakes up on a different network? How can init with 200 lines of if/fi scripts handle something liek this? WHat if your network goes down on your server? What if your web server is hacked? What if your Oracle RDMS takes a dive?
Writting every possible conceivable combination of events with nested if/fi statements is luducrious! An event driven system makes sense.
FYI Init is not a glorified autoexec.bat for starting up. Something needs to tell the kernel which daemons to start and which arguments to pass on. Those who say otherwise do not know what Init does or it's intended use.
So Apple went 1st and everyone but Linux followed.
Arstechnica.com just a few days ago posted some benchmarks with Steam. With nvidia hardware even it is about 40% slower than Windows.
I am not an AMD fanboy at all. I have an nvidia 770 on my system at home and an ATI 7850 before then. I hate both companies actually but for different reasons. Alot has to do with games too. Even if you had a solid driver for Linux the game is designed and only tested with Windows and they use some 3rd rate outsourcer overseas to port it to Linux... or even WIndows as the game is optimized only for the Xbox and Playstation and not on Windows.... and even worse Linux. EA is known for this.
So that and DirectX is more tied to the OS than OpenGL so it is faster unless you do tricks. Vulcan may fix this but DirectX 12 will have hardware access. FYI AMD invented Mantle which turned up the heat and gave console like performance on the desktop as game makers have direct hardware access that is lacking on the PC.
On my system I only use Nvidia drivers that come with WIndows. I get corruption if I use the latest ones from nvidia. I figured out when my computer went to sleep it would crash before saving everything to the hiber.sys file.
I wish Matrox and PowerVR were still making PC graphics:-(. Some competition is lacking and would add fire to AMD and Nvidia to improve their products and drivers.
Read a game developer comment on here and they will say AMD hardware is a joy to use. Especially on the XBOXONE... but on Windows it is hell due to bugs and workarounds due to optimizations from 15 years worth of games loading up.
Consider it like IE 6 where you need work arounds on work arounds and each new release adds more changes to make some new game cheat on benchmarks. Nvidia is now falling under this trap too. The great thing about FirePro and Quadro cards is the hardware is almost identical to the gaming cards except with ECC ram. It is the drivers that make them pro.
I read the article and it mentioned the hot side faced Earth. Not that heat radiating tens of thousands of miles in a vacuum heated it thousands of degrees.
More than like the force of the bang pushing the material left it run towards the back facing Earth not to mention gravitational pulls swelled the molten core towards Earth. And a 100 degree heat difference from the side facing the sun as well might of had a very small role.
1 billion years ago the Earth had 100 to 1,000 foot tides as the Moon and the Earth were much closer which is how plants evolved from Sea Algae and fish to land animals as great pools were left to get wet and dry over and over. I would imagine the molten cores would have as similiar effect of a pull one side with pressure as well.
You could say that about a lot of people. Still most of them will go for "more money whatever the cost". That's their main point. Of course, it is no point at all. But there isn't really much more they could do at their level anyway.
Someone mentioned a rumor about a divorce settlement?
After 100k more money doesn't really help. At 250,000,000 you can buy mansions everywhere in the world, your own jet, a private chef to cook every meal, every luxury car imaginable, etc.
The bank account signs are for ego I guess. But really would you do a job you hate if you had that kind of cash? HELL NO! You work because you want too or do not work anymore like the actress who played Princess Leah. After Blues Brothers and Star Wars she decided work wasn't for her and she didn't have to do it anymore. She was set.
Oddly rich people are also depressed and lonely. After all their possible needs on Maslows Triangle are met they feel they have no purpose.
In the old days of Linux being new turn of the century all these things were new and many forks existed. Someone didn't like KDE? Then create Gnome. Didn't like WindowMaker? Make Enlightenment. Linux users laughed at those on Windows tied into their app ecosystems saying if it were opensource Office, IE, SAP, Oracle, wouldn't be so impossible to leave etc.
Today no one wants to fork. Things are mature and stable. users fear change. Looking at FOSS in 2015 I hate to say this but Linux grew into the WIndows ecosystem. One app for graphics, gimp. . One app for a gui, gnome. One app for an ide Eclipse, etc. True with the gui part someone will say they use featureX. But for 85% of users things tied to stuff like gnome can't leave so easily. Just like some law firm probably runs Wordperfect somewhere today. But MS word is thee word processing app.
What happened? Or did the kids who thought pcs were cool in 1998 are old farts who have jobs and newer kids want to make newer mobile apps for their phones and do not care about legacy pcs anymore?
How about we port Paint.net to Linux using Mono? It is opensourced and can do many of the same functions. It can't be too hard to port and will require hell of alot less effort than rewriting Gimp. It is designed for plugins and already has a much better menu system
If what he said was true and this is an action movie with no drama or character development I will sorely be pissed. Episode 3 was ok but could have been written better.
I do not want CGI and freaking special effects and stuff blowing up! If Lucas says there is no drama or character development and a story then what you thought was bad about Phantom Menace will be much better than what is about to come up.
Because you can't have your $4 Billion dollar cake, and eat it too?
Dude do you have any idea how rich Lucas is?
I had a friend from college who was a VP when a quote from Walt Disney came up in business management class "After a certain point. You come to work to do your passions. I have all the money in the world as it is.." Basically he told me the folks he knows work to piss on their other business owners to show who is top dog. They have all soo much money that a few million here or there won't make a difference.
Yes for you or I would jump and trip over anyone offering me freaking $4 billion dollars!! But, I have bills to pay. Jobs I go to that are not all that great but needed so I do not have to move in with my parents. I have a car with 130,000 miles on it and student loans and a retirement to worry about. So yeah, Mr. Lucas does not have these problems.
If he wanted he could go live like Mr. McAffee on a tropical beach with hookers, parties, and drugs, with his own jet to go and do whatever he wants when he wants before this deal with Disney. Money is not something on his mind unless his goal was to have another pissing ego contest on someone else so he can grin on how rich and successful he is.
Just a perspective us peasants never really consider. Perhaps we too can make something of ourselves with a startup someday? But anyway he already has cashed out as wealthy back in the late 1970s.... of course the flipside is poverty. I type this and am middle class. Imagine working 3 jobs and wondering how you are going to eat or keep the lights on? That too is not a concern for Lucas. Perhaps he should not have sold it? I wonder what his intentions were or did a divorce made him do this?
A science denier is the US is religious and feel God is saying otherwise and think scientists have an ideological agenda because they don't deny evolution.
This started due to Reagan courting them in 1980 and creating the religious right. When oil interests lobby it is merged with religious theology as it came mingled together.
This is dangerous as their eternal security is at stake for thinking differently from the church which is one with this. So expect strong opposition and shows how screwed up the right became by merging religion for power
I've seen multiple studies showing that in the longer run a degree more than pays for itself on average, even liberal arts.
This seems like a contradiction to TFA. One possible theory to reconcile this is that it takes time to find or become ready for positions that use education.
The idea that you'll be doing more than just grunt work out of college is perhaps unrealistic. Employers want educated AND experienced employees. It takes a while to get sufficient experience.
Even if you start in grunt work, learn what you can around you, pick up tidbits, listen and learn in meetings, go out of your way to do extra, read the policy & procedure manuals, practice your people skills, understand how your little corner of the work-load affects the rest of the org. Clues are all over the place. Education doesn't end out of college.
I think it takes a lot of commitment and drive to finish college especially when older. Most do not finish college the last time I looked. I would argue those that finish a degree or more likely to engage and keep learning, getting certified, and following thru projects and all the things above than those that don't? Not that the piece of paper brings more value.
In IT you are always learning or you rot away in help desk. Degree or not you need a cert to touch the cisco switches. You need a math or cs degree to touch code in many fortune 500 companies. You need to work more than 40 hours a week and see projects theough if you want to keep your PM or manager job. College degrees may not be required but all require lots of learning and dedication which those who can and want to can get a degree as well
I believe Oracle owns using more than 1 cpu in a query if I am correct so their own rdbms looks faster. Maybe it is now being enabled if it expires or maybe not.
Best beer buddies or ot if they can't do their job because you can't do yours and fix it gloves are off. Assholery seems universal in the IT field as we are in the end a cost of goods sold machine who are there to make sure they make money. Nothing more. Sorry but respect is not their for IT unless you work for a.com and actually generate the revenue.
Maybe my soul has been broken. BUt I had hell last week with people throwing me under the bus by not following procedures and overloading my team. Beer buddies didn't count as the MBAs jobs were on the line and they documented things to make sure just myself was on the line etc.
Anyway in business things need to be agreed and documented in support and money.
If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Yeah, some people just have no sense at all when it comes to simple common-sense proposal of a win-win deal. As you said, that's exactly the way to approach a demand for an immediate bug fix, propose a working relationship and a price. If the company which has paid you nothing balks at paying, and threatens you in any way, simply offer them an immediate full refund in exchange for terminating the relationship;-)
Why should they? You promised and lied it would work. THey are already paying you $60,000 a year and you agreed to it in return for 100% uptime. There is no budget for $416 an hour. That budget for support goes to you!
I think you geeks wouldn't last long at my company:-) If you can't resolve a critical issue you are fired. No questions asked. We have to bill our customers for any downtime by large large sums of money and you are 100% at fault if you did a change unapproved and if you have some clout to implement it and it fails you are shit up the creek as why are we paying you money if you can't perform your job?
Sorry geeks but PHB MBA types are assholes who do not get or understand tech or geek issues with liberties. They just want to make money and pay you as a COG black box to make problems go away so business can continue as normal.
That is reality that many do not grasp. Maybe I work for a not so good employer? Maybe who cares as they are no different than anyone else with deadlines. That is what we all must do to keep our cars and homes for a paycheck.
If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Sony or Microsoft might buy their chip facilities since they do use AMD chips as the CPU/GPU in their consoles
Given that AMD spun off its chip facilities a few years ago, I think we can probably ignore your market analysis.
Personally I think AMD should give up and sell their assets under bankruptacy to Samsung or Realtek or some ARM cpu manufacturer who is component and knows what they are doing and can write decent drivers.:-(
AMD is damaged goods man and you know why they suck? No one including global foundaries wants to invest making chips that are not 2012 era technology! Global foundaries said there is no demand for AMD chips and their new cutting edge.18 NM plants only make chips for cell phones for Apple, LG, etc. Once they go out of date and are slow and big like.28 microns they use them for AMD chips.... meanwhile Intel's skylake is.14 NM and moving forward. How can you compete with that? They are toast. I would still buy ATI graphics cards if people would not keep dropping them like Falcon Northwest (I think that was the one) whose customer service reps demanded they only support NVidia as 80% of callers had ATI problems with the drivers.
If another company had some skin in the game they could use their chip designers to update their x86 line and give more up to date plants. Competing with Intel is like competing against Walmart these days. It can't be done.
I give credit where it's due for the WII in 2006. Cutting edge where Nintendo set the stage of not losing $$$$ for each console sold where Sony and MS lost billions hoping to make it up by game royalities. Notice today they have crappy low end hardware with integrated graphics.
Nintendo recovered for a few years as a result and needed it badly in the middle of the last decade. I recall it outselling the PS 4 briefly after the surge during the holiday season as parents noticed the WII was $100 when the great recession started and of course most kid games pre-teen were still WII based at 1st while teenagers prefered Sony.
Man did MS screw up with the WII U though:-(
Actually both Sony and Nintendo screwed up as cell phones are the preferred media platform for games with tablets for the young age group. No reason for Johnny to want a DS when his iphone can run many of the cool games too.
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I disagree on the "full-throttle" part. That's be fine on consumer desktops. But Linux is mostly about production servers. Yes, yes... I know... mainstream Linux on the desktop is "just around the corner" and all that. :)
I have no great love for sysV init scripts. Getting rid of them would break a few things in my world. But really, those things could probably stand a new look and update anyway. But my second-to-main issue with systemd is that it's just somewhat half-baked and obtuse. There's a lot of "don't look behind the curtain, just trust us that it'll work" to it. That'd be tolerable in a consumer OS, or even in a consumer-targeted Linux distort like Mint, but not in bloody RHEL and Debian!
My biggest gripe about systemd, though, is its counterpart in crime: journald. Binary log files are the work of the devil and journald needs to die in a fire. And no one... not even a couple of Red Hat engineers I've spoken with... has been able to give be a non-hackish, production-worthy, way of ripping journald out of the thing and replacing it with syslog.
Name one commercial version of Unix that still is supported that uses init?
Sco Unixware is the only thing that comes close but I do not htink it is supported anymore.
Solaris left init in 2008
Apple left init in 2006
NetBSD left init for object oriented macros in init for a hybrid approach around 2007
If Init is so great why is everyone leaving?
The reason is init was not designed for desktops or servers with more than a dozen applications. What if your laptop goes to sleep and wakes up on a different network? How can init with 200 lines of if/fi scripts handle something liek this? WHat if your network goes down on your server? What if your web server is hacked? What if your Oracle RDMS takes a dive?
Writting every possible conceivable combination of events with nested if/fi statements is luducrious! An event driven system makes sense.
FYI Init is not a glorified autoexec.bat for starting up. Something needs to tell the kernel which daemons to start and which arguments to pass on. Those who say otherwise do not know what Init does or it's intended use.
So Apple went 1st and everyone but Linux followed.
Not really.
Arstechnica.com just a few days ago posted some benchmarks with Steam. With nvidia hardware even it is about 40% slower than Windows.
I am not an AMD fanboy at all. I have an nvidia 770 on my system at home and an ATI 7850 before then. I hate both companies actually but for different reasons. Alot has to do with games too. Even if you had a solid driver for Linux the game is designed and only tested with Windows and they use some 3rd rate outsourcer overseas to port it to Linux ... or even WIndows as the game is optimized only for the Xbox and Playstation and not on Windows .... and even worse Linux. EA is known for this.
So that and DirectX is more tied to the OS than OpenGL so it is faster unless you do tricks. Vulcan may fix this but DirectX 12 will have hardware access. FYI AMD invented Mantle which turned up the heat and gave console like performance on the desktop as game makers have direct hardware access that is lacking on the PC.
On my system I only use Nvidia drivers that come with WIndows. I get corruption if I use the latest ones from nvidia. I figured out when my computer went to sleep it would crash before saving everything to the hiber.sys file.
I wish Matrox and PowerVR were still making PC graphics :-(. Some competition is lacking and would add fire to AMD and Nvidia to improve their products and drivers.
You say that as a bad thing.
Read a game developer comment on here and they will say AMD hardware is a joy to use. Especially on the XBOXONE... but on Windows it is hell due to bugs and workarounds due to optimizations from 15 years worth of games loading up.
Consider it like IE 6 where you need work arounds on work arounds and each new release adds more changes to make some new game cheat on benchmarks. Nvidia is now falling under this trap too. The great thing about FirePro and Quadro cards is the hardware is almost identical to the gaming cards except with ECC ram. It is the drivers that make them pro.
Or better yet download the drivers to a USB and wipe it with a fresh image from the media creation tool or iso from Microsofts website.
I have not seen anyone use the malware and Spyware bloated image since last decade. You always do a clean install
I love the hyper-v emulators more
My facts were quoted from a college level biology book. It was believed the tides were much bigger.
I read the article and it mentioned the hot side faced Earth. Not that heat radiating tens of thousands of miles in a vacuum heated it thousands of degrees.
More than like the force of the bang pushing the material left it run towards the back facing Earth not to mention gravitational pulls swelled the molten core towards Earth. And a 100 degree heat difference from the side facing the sun as well might of had a very small role.
1 billion years ago the Earth had 100 to 1,000 foot tides as the Moon and the Earth were much closer which is how plants evolved from Sea Algae and fish to land animals as great pools were left to get wet and dry over and over. I would imagine the molten cores would have as similiar effect of a pull one side with pressure as well.
You could say that about a lot of people. Still most of them will go for "more money whatever the cost". That's their main point. Of course, it is no point at all. But there isn't really much more they could do at their level anyway.
Someone mentioned a rumor about a divorce settlement?
After 100k more money doesn't really help. At 250,000,000 you can buy mansions everywhere in the world, your own jet, a private chef to cook every meal, every luxury car imaginable, etc.
The bank account signs are for ego I guess. But really would you do a job you hate if you had that kind of cash? HELL NO! You work because you want too or do not work anymore like the actress who played Princess Leah. After Blues Brothers and Star Wars she decided work wasn't for her and she didn't have to do it anymore. She was set.
Oddly rich people are also depressed and lonely. After all their possible needs on Maslows Triangle are met they feel they have no purpose.
You know what is odd?
In the old days of Linux being new turn of the century all these things were new and many forks existed. Someone didn't like KDE? Then create Gnome. Didn't like WindowMaker? Make Enlightenment. Linux users laughed at those on Windows tied into their app ecosystems saying if it were opensource Office, IE, SAP, Oracle, wouldn't be so impossible to leave etc.
Today no one wants to fork. Things are mature and stable. users fear change. Looking at FOSS in 2015 I hate to say this but Linux grew into the WIndows ecosystem. One app for graphics, gimp. . One app for a gui, gnome. One app for an ide Eclipse, etc. True with the gui part someone will say they use featureX. But for 85% of users things tied to stuff like gnome can't leave so easily. Just like some law firm probably runs Wordperfect somewhere today. But MS word is thee word processing app.
What happened? Or did the kids who thought pcs were cool in 1998 are old farts who have jobs and newer kids want to make newer mobile apps for their phones and do not care about legacy pcs anymore?
How about we port Paint.net to Linux using Mono? It is opensourced and can do many of the same functions. It can't be too hard to port and will require hell of alot less effort than rewriting Gimp. It is designed for plugins and already has a much better menu system
Too bad the latest version is integrated with SystemD so you can't leave init.
If what he said was true and this is an action movie with no drama or character development I will sorely be pissed. Episode 3 was ok but could have been written better.
I do not want CGI and freaking special effects and stuff blowing up! If Lucas says there is no drama or character development and a story then what you thought was bad about Phantom Menace will be much better than what is about to come up.
Because you can't have your $4 Billion dollar cake, and eat it too?
Dude do you have any idea how rich Lucas is?
I had a friend from college who was a VP when a quote from Walt Disney came up in business management class "After a certain point. You come to work to do your passions. I have all the money in the world as it is .." Basically he told me the folks he knows work to piss on their other business owners to show who is top dog. They have all soo much money that a few million here or there won't make a difference.
Yes for you or I would jump and trip over anyone offering me freaking $4 billion dollars!! But, I have bills to pay. Jobs I go to that are not all that great but needed so I do not have to move in with my parents. I have a car with 130,000 miles on it and student loans and a retirement to worry about. So yeah, Mr. Lucas does not have these problems.
If he wanted he could go live like Mr. McAffee on a tropical beach with hookers, parties, and drugs, with his own jet to go and do whatever he wants when he wants before this deal with Disney. Money is not something on his mind unless his goal was to have another pissing ego contest on someone else so he can grin on how rich and successful he is.
Just a perspective us peasants never really consider. Perhaps we too can make something of ourselves with a startup someday? But anyway he already has cashed out as wealthy back in the late 1970s. ... of course the flipside is poverty. I type this and am middle class. Imagine working 3 jobs and wondering how you are going to eat or keep the lights on? That too is not a concern for Lucas. Perhaps he should not have sold it? I wonder what his intentions were or did a divorce made him do this?
No the Cisco guy wipes out when he images. Unless you think NSA will put an ROM or eprom in it?
Answer is easy. Cisco routers ship naked and Cisco images each one on site personally for an extra fee
And I wonder if the NSA root kit will wipe out the Chinese one?
A science denier is the US is religious and feel God is saying otherwise and think scientists have an ideological agenda because they don't deny evolution.
This started due to Reagan courting them in 1980 and creating the religious right. When oil interests lobby it is merged with religious theology as it came mingled together.
This is dangerous as their eternal security is at stake for thinking differently from the church which is one with this. So expect strong opposition and shows how screwed up the right became by merging religion for power
I've seen multiple studies showing that in the longer run a degree more than pays for itself on average, even liberal arts.
This seems like a contradiction to TFA. One possible theory to reconcile this is that it takes time to find or become ready for positions that use education.
The idea that you'll be doing more than just grunt work out of college is perhaps unrealistic. Employers want educated AND experienced employees. It takes a while to get sufficient experience.
Even if you start in grunt work, learn what you can around you, pick up tidbits, listen and learn in meetings, go out of your way to do extra, read the policy & procedure manuals, practice your people skills, understand how your little corner of the work-load affects the rest of the org. Clues are all over the place. Education doesn't end out of college.
I think it takes a lot of commitment and drive to finish college especially when older. Most do not finish college the last time I looked. I would argue those that finish a degree or more likely to engage and keep learning, getting certified, and following thru projects and all the things above than those that don't? Not that the piece of paper brings more value.
In IT you are always learning or you rot away in help desk. Degree or not you need a cert to touch the cisco switches. You need a math or cs degree to touch code in many fortune 500 companies. You need to work more than 40 hours a week and see projects theough if you want to keep your PM or manager job. College degrees may not be required but all require lots of learning and dedication which those who can and want to can get a degree as well
I believe Oracle owns using more than 1 cpu in a query if I am correct so their own rdbms looks faster. Maybe it is now being enabled if it expires or maybe not.
I don't want to be sued using it
"As soon as a bug affects them, they want it fixed immediately."
You respond with, "feel free to hire a team of programmers to fix that. you have the source code.:"
Honestly, you have to act like Linus if you run an OSS project.
.... and you're still employed?
Yada yada
Best beer buddies or ot if they can't do their job because you can't do yours and fix it gloves are off. Assholery seems universal in the IT field as we are in the end a cost of goods sold machine who are there to make sure they make money. Nothing more. Sorry but respect is not their for IT unless you work for a .com and actually generate the revenue.
Maybe my soul has been broken. BUt I had hell last week with people throwing me under the bus by not following procedures and overloading my team. Beer buddies didn't count as the MBAs jobs were on the line and they documented things to make sure just myself was on the line etc.
Anyway in business things need to be agreed and documented in support and money.
If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Yeah, some people just have no sense at all when it comes to simple common-sense proposal of a win-win deal. As you said, that's exactly the way to approach a demand for an immediate bug fix, propose a working relationship and a price. If the company which has paid you nothing balks at paying, and threatens you in any way, simply offer them an immediate full refund in exchange for terminating the relationship ;-)
Why should they? You promised and lied it would work. THey are already paying you $60,000 a year and you agreed to it in return for 100% uptime. There is no budget for $416 an hour. That budget for support goes to you!
I think you geeks wouldn't last long at my company :-) If you can't resolve a critical issue you are fired. No questions asked. We have to bill our customers for any downtime by large large sums of money and you are 100% at fault if you did a change unapproved and if you have some clout to implement it and it fails you are shit up the creek as why are we paying you money if you can't perform your job?
Sorry geeks but PHB MBA types are assholes who do not get or understand tech or geek issues with liberties. They just want to make money and pay you as a COG black box to make problems go away so business can continue as normal.
That is reality that many do not grasp. Maybe I work for a not so good employer? Maybe who cares as they are no different than anyone else with deadlines. That is what we all must do to keep our cars and homes for a paycheck.
If somebody wants a fix for software that they haven't paid anything for, and they want it now, why not offer paid support on that one issue at a rate of $416 per hour? A 24 hour fix would place a cool $10,000 in your pocket. And if they don't want to, then tell them to hire somebody else to do it.
Alright you're fired!
Sony or Microsoft might buy their chip facilities since they do use AMD chips as the CPU/GPU in their consoles
Given that AMD spun off its chip facilities a few years ago, I think we can probably ignore your market analysis.
Personally I think AMD should give up and sell their assets under bankruptacy to Samsung or Realtek or some ARM cpu manufacturer who is component and knows what they are doing and can write decent drivers. :-(
AMD is damaged goods man and you know why they suck? No one including global foundaries wants to invest making chips that are not 2012 era technology! Global foundaries said there is no demand for AMD chips and their new cutting edge .18 NM plants only make chips for cell phones for Apple, LG, etc. Once they go out of date and are slow and big like .28 microns they use them for AMD chips. ... meanwhile Intel's skylake is .14 NM and moving forward. How can you compete with that? They are toast. I would still buy ATI graphics cards if people would not keep dropping them like Falcon Northwest (I think that was the one) whose customer service reps demanded they only support NVidia as 80% of callers had ATI problems with the drivers.
If another company had some skin in the game they could use their chip designers to update their x86 line and give more up to date plants. Competing with Intel is like competing against Walmart these days. It can't be done.
I give credit where it's due for the WII in 2006. Cutting edge where Nintendo set the stage of not losing $$$$ for each console sold where Sony and MS lost billions hoping to make it up by game royalities. Notice today they have crappy low end hardware with integrated graphics.
Nintendo recovered for a few years as a result and needed it badly in the middle of the last decade. I recall it outselling the PS 4 briefly after the surge during the holiday season as parents noticed the WII was $100 when the great recession started and of course most kid games pre-teen were still WII based at 1st while teenagers prefered Sony.
Man did MS screw up with the WII U though :-(
Actually both Sony and Nintendo screwed up as cell phones are the preferred media platform for games with tablets for the young age group. No reason for Johnny to want a DS when his iphone can run many of the cool games too.