And that, I think, is the defining factor. I live outside the US so I only know what I read about in news stories, but it sounds like a lot of you guys have really expensive Internet that would barely qualify as basic broadband in many parts of the world. If everyone had fast, reasonably-priced Internet, would there be any demand at all for having to watch whatever bland crap someone else programs at a given time rather than watching what you want, when you want via streaming media?
It's not just clothing, it's other items as well. My wife wears men's hiking boots exclusively because they're comfortable and designed for, you know, hiking. She finds women's hiking boots are only useful if you're planning to hike down to the nearest cafe. Weird thing is that unless you point out they're men's boots, you can't actually tell. Somehow designers have managed to make two items of footwear that look more or less identical be quite comfortable and useful in the designed-for-men version and uncomfortable and awkward in the designed-for-women version.
It's actually quite feasible, you just have to run the experiment in a really, really cold room. I could get room-temperature superconductivity if I could cool my room to 70K.
That's actually one legitimate way to monetise your TulipBulbEtherCoin, you set up your own exchange and do an ICO and all the other stuff, value your imaginary money at eleventy googleplex dollars, sue someone with deep enough pockets, and eventually settle for a few billion or so as compensation. Profit!
I put this sticker on my laptop. Two times now security theatre performers have gingerly handed it back to me, and wiped their hands afterwards with sanitiser.
Spend any time browsing TLS mailing lists and you'll find an alarming lack of individuals with proper background to evaluate the protocol. It's more likely NSA felt wasting resources on intentional subversion was unnecessary and redundant.
That was certainly the case with 1.3. It's not that there weren't good crypotographers involved, but you need to look at the way the protocol was designed. It has every feature that every person on the mailing list who works for a large Internet company (so Google, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, and a few others) could think of in it, and then some more stuff added by other players where no-one was interested enough to challenge the addition. The crypto parts may be OK, but the whole protocol is such a monstrous destructively-interacting clusterfuck of every feature that Google wanted for its use, every feature that Facebook wanted for its use, every feature that Akamai wanted for its use, and more, that it's going to be years, if ever, before all the problems get sorted out.
The OP mentions "20 years of deployed legacy code", that's 20 years of code that's been tuned and fixed up to address issues, not 20 year-old abandonware. TLS 1.3 resets the counter to 0-day, everyone needs to start again from scratch to play catch-up with all the problems that are hiding in there.
So yes, the NSA didn't need to do anything to fsck things up, the design process has already taken care of that.
"Space is, in his words, a war-fighting domain just like land and air and sea."
and then says the US needs a sixth force. By my counting, land, air, sea, and space is four. Most other countries have the standard complement of army, navy, air force to cover that, and OK Trump wants a space force so he can make rocket noises after he gets bored of making choo-choo and truck noises, but that still leaves two unaccounted military entities that no-one else seems to require.
IBM isn't that dumb. I also think the title is wrong, or at least mis-phrased, it should be:
Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer that Others Believe In It
As with share trading, you don't have to believe in it, you just have to recognise when others believe in it so you can make money off it. And if there's one thing IBM knows how to do, it's make money off IT services that others still believe in, or at least depend on.
A lot of them shouldn't even need firmware. When you go to a hospital, you may get a choice between a traditional drip, dosage measured via drip rate, and the computerised equivalent, with 85 levels of menus, some with hundreds of entries, a 640 x 480 display filled with the programmers showing off how much crap they can cram into a 640 x 480 display, dozens of options and parameters to get wrong, beeps and bongs all night long, graphics and animations and a hidden flight simulator and a Tetris game as an easter egg and remote access via telnet and HTTP and inverse-logic morse code and a phone-home to a server in Uzbekistan where the RTOS was licensed from.
If all you want is a low-cost (or even free) alternative to MS Office, have a look at Kingsoft Office, which is a clone of MS Office as it was before they went full retard on the UI. It's my go-to choice for friends and family support "I need to be able to open Word docs but don't want to shell out $$$$ for Office". Sure, it's not perfect, but they've done a pretty good job of getting enough of it right that the typical user won't notice the difference.
Skype is like broadcast TV, everyone who knows how uses something better, but your mom back home and Aunt Emma and Uncle Bob in Canadia and Granny Smith down south all still rely on it. So on the one hand it's not something you can easily drop without upsetting people you know, but on the other the natural attrition of the user base will mean at some point it won't be a concern any more.
Forty years later the owners are still in the house, and they'll be there till they die.
To me it seems that the house works as expected.
In a manner of speaking, it's a terrible house to live in and they can't get rid of it short of perhaps burning it down. I wouldn't used the word "works" though, more "broken as designed", "close to unliveable", and certainly "unsellable".
Construction doesn't need every carpenter to be an architect but you'd better have an architect.
Or just a competent builder. My dad was a builder, and almost every single architect-designed house he built needed anything from significant through to major design changes to get it from what the architect wished for to being physically buildable and in compliance with building regulations. There was one house that was so bad he refused to build from the architect's plans when the owner wouldn't agree to him fixing them. Forty years later the owners are still in the house, and they'll be there till they die, no-one in their right mind would buy what they ended up with.
I've seen the same thing with software, I once did a bit of work for a company where their salesdroids would spend their lunch hour telling me why their Grand Poobah System Architect's design couldn't ever work. It didn't even take a developer, even the sales guys could see why it couldn't possibly work, and they had things like MBAs and BComs.
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Only if you have decent speed internet.
And that, I think, is the defining factor. I live outside the US so I only know what I read about in news stories, but it sounds like a lot of you guys have really expensive Internet that would barely qualify as basic broadband in many parts of the world. If everyone had fast, reasonably-priced Internet, would there be any demand at all for having to watch whatever bland crap someone else programs at a given time rather than watching what you want, when you want via streaming media?
If they've got good enough marketers, they'll sell you the sunshine.
Just as an aside, Braunschweig is where famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger originally came from.
Good we hack the Russians, Bad the Russians hack us. Got it. You DO know we are not at war with them, right?
We have always been at war with East^H^H^H^Eurasia.
It's not just clothing, it's other items as well. My wife wears men's hiking boots exclusively because they're comfortable and designed for, you know, hiking. She finds women's hiking boots are only useful if you're planning to hike down to the nearest cafe. Weird thing is that unless you point out they're men's boots, you can't actually tell. Somehow designers have managed to make two items of footwear that look more or less identical be quite comfortable and useful in the designed-for-men version and uncomfortable and awkward in the designed-for-women version.
I stopped using Firefox as it only uses 1 core unlike IE 8 and Chrome 1.0 10 years ago
Firefox already uses all the memory, you want it to evolve to use all the cores as well?
It's actually quite feasible, you just have to run the experiment in a really, really cold room. I could get room-temperature superconductivity if I could cool my room to 70K.
That's actually one legitimate way to monetise your TulipBulbEtherCoin, you set up your own exchange and do an ICO and all the other stuff, value your imaginary money at eleventy googleplex dollars, sue someone with deep enough pockets, and eventually settle for a few billion or so as compensation. Profit!
I put this sticker on my laptop. Two times now security theatre performers have gingerly handed it back to me, and wiped their hands afterwards with sanitiser.
That's why you drink English beer, which is consumed warm. Then you don't need the fridge for your tinnies.
Spend any time browsing TLS mailing lists and you'll find an alarming lack of individuals with proper background to evaluate the protocol. It's more likely NSA felt wasting resources on intentional subversion was unnecessary and redundant.
That was certainly the case with 1.3. It's not that there weren't good crypotographers involved, but you need to look at the way the protocol was designed. It has every feature that every person on the mailing list who works for a large Internet company (so Google, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare, and a few others) could think of in it, and then some more stuff added by other players where no-one was interested enough to challenge the addition. The crypto parts may be OK, but the whole protocol is such a monstrous destructively-interacting clusterfuck of every feature that Google wanted for its use, every feature that Facebook wanted for its use, every feature that Akamai wanted for its use, and more, that it's going to be years, if ever, before all the problems get sorted out.
The OP mentions "20 years of deployed legacy code", that's 20 years of code that's been tuned and fixed up to address issues, not 20 year-old abandonware. TLS 1.3 resets the counter to 0-day, everyone needs to start again from scratch to play catch-up with all the problems that are hiding in there.
So yes, the NSA didn't need to do anything to fsck things up, the design process has already taken care of that.
I'm fat, sweaty, and have a neckbeard, but I identify as an attack helicopter!
"Space is, in his words, a war-fighting domain just like land and air and sea."
and then says the US needs a sixth force. By my counting, land, air, sea, and space is four. Most other countries have the standard complement of army, navy, air force to cover that, and OK Trump wants a space force so he can make rocket noises after he gets bored of making choo-choo and truck noises, but that still leaves two unaccounted military entities that no-one else seems to require.
Blockchain Hype May Have Peaked, But IBM is Still a Believer that Others Believe In It
As with share trading, you don't have to believe in it, you just have to recognise when others believe in it so you can make money off it. And if there's one thing IBM knows how to do, it's make money off IT services that others still believe in, or at least depend on.
A lot of them shouldn't even need firmware. When you go to a hospital, you may get a choice between a traditional drip, dosage measured via drip rate, and the computerised equivalent, with 85 levels of menus, some with hundreds of entries, a 640 x 480 display filled with the programmers showing off how much crap they can cram into a 640 x 480 display, dozens of options and parameters to get wrong, beeps and bongs all night long, graphics and animations and a hidden flight simulator and a Tetris game as an easter egg and remote access via telnet and HTTP and inverse-logic morse code and a phone-home to a server in Uzbekistan where the RTOS was licensed from.
Which one would you trust to function correctly?
I have a Begby enabled Samsung refrigerator. Whenever I say something to it, it swears at me in a near-incomprehensible Glaswegian accent.
If all you want is a low-cost (or even free) alternative to MS Office, have a look at Kingsoft Office, which is a clone of MS Office as it was before they went full retard on the UI. It's my go-to choice for friends and family support "I need to be able to open Word docs but don't want to shell out $$$$ for Office". Sure, it's not perfect, but they've done a pretty good job of getting enough of it right that the typical user won't notice the difference.
Skype is like broadcast TV, everyone who knows how uses something better, but your mom back home and Aunt Emma and Uncle Bob in Canadia and Granny Smith down south all still rely on it. So on the one hand it's not something you can easily drop without upsetting people you know, but on the other the natural attrition of the user base will mean at some point it won't be a concern any more.
Will the Touch Bar Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks?
to trigger Betteridges Law.
That was my reaction as well. In other news, Water is Wet! Politicians Lie! Prices Increase! The Sun Rises! The Sun Sets! The Sun Crashes!
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'Why Liberal Arts and the Humanities Are as Important as Engineering'
Because without them who would there be to ask the engineer whether he'd like fries with that?
But a house built by an engineer should be torn down.
Some houses built by engineers can't be torn down.
Forty years later the owners are still in the house, and they'll be there till they die.
To me it seems that the house works as expected.
In a manner of speaking, it's a terrible house to live in and they can't get rid of it short of perhaps burning it down. I wouldn't used the word "works" though, more "broken as designed", "close to unliveable", and certainly "unsellable".
no-one in their right mind would buy what they ended up with.
So, Frank Lloyd Wright?
Someone with 1/100th of Wright's talent, but all of his engineering skills.
Construction doesn't need every carpenter to be an architect but you'd better have an architect.
Or just a competent builder. My dad was a builder, and almost every single architect-designed house he built needed anything from significant through to major design changes to get it from what the architect wished for to being physically buildable and in compliance with building regulations. There was one house that was so bad he refused to build from the architect's plans when the owner wouldn't agree to him fixing them. Forty years later the owners are still in the house, and they'll be there till they die, no-one in their right mind would buy what they ended up with.
I've seen the same thing with software, I once did a bit of work for a company where their salesdroids would spend their lunch hour telling me why their Grand Poobah System Architect's design couldn't ever work. It didn't even take a developer, even the sales guys could see why it couldn't possibly work, and they had things like MBAs and BComs.