The description should be "was", not "is". I've talked to a number of people working on blockchain stuff for different organisations, including in some cases multinational corporations, of which exactly zero are using the blockchain for technical purposes. In all cases it's for political reasons, if your problem solution includes the term "blockchain" it gets funded, if it doesn't then it may or may not get funded, but certainly a lot less so than if it does. In some cases they were quite open about it, in others less so, after about an hour of going through their technology I asked "where's the blockchain in all this"... "oh yeah, uh, about the blockchain...".
It's also because no reviewer worth their salt would ever, ever write an objective review based on actual measurements when they can churn out endless subjective reviews. The entire high-end audio industry is built on reviewers arbitrary opinions, devoid of any actual measurements or testing. That's reserved for third-party sites and blogs that point out how ridiculous most high-end audio reviews and claims are.
In theory yes, in practice I doubt it. Remember, this is Ajit Pai's FCC, not the FCC of old, their task will be to figure out how the carriers' positions can be interpreted so that no action is required, not to slap the carriers upside the head for lying to them.
As I have matured in my career I had grown to a point where I have to say No to a lot of development requests. Not because they are bad ideas or I am unable to program them. But because it would add complexity to the program that would become a sliding scale of bringing a product into becoming unusable.
That's a big issue in particular with open-source stuff, it's not your users who are idiots who need to be brought around to your way of thinking, it's you who have created something that may be fine for you but it's nearly unusable for an outsider. A prime example of this was a well-known OSS video editing suite that a friend of mine, a 2D compositor with decades of experience, told me about. The alternatives were five-figure commercial products, but this suite was doomed to be a permanent also-ran because the devs were absolutely determined to keep doing it their way, which was different from how every other suite in the industry did it. They would argue till they were blue in the face that their way was perfect (it wasn't, it was just different), but couldn't see that by choosing to be incompatible with everything else in the entire industry they were dooming themselves to irrelevance, or at least lack of any mainstream adoption.
I guess it's time to link to this, which we ran into at work some years ago. Ended up getting printed as a poster and stuck on walls until The Mgt. complained about the swearing in it. Which was strange really, swearing seems to be a natural part of using Notes.
The problem with Firefox was, and to be honest still is, that it's a memory hog, and has been since Firefox 4
Last week I got notified that a simple resource-exhaustion bug I'd reported some time ago had had its status updated in that someone had reported that it's still present in the very latest release. I traced back through the endless "try the latest release and see if it's magically fixed itself in the meantime because we don't give a fuck" responses from Mozilla devs.
Eventually I got back to the original bug report. When I reported it, the browser was called Phoenix.
That really says it all for Mozilla and their attitude towards their product.
I have used Lotus Notes. Unfortunately.
It was THE worst mail interface and groupware suit I have ever had the misfortune to use.
I talked to one of the original Notes creators once. Notes was brilliant, it's just that people didn't understand it. Everything in it was just the way it should be, it wasn't the Notes creators fault that everyone else was an idiot and didn't appreciate their fine design. That was roughly their attitude towards their users. It was like talking to a schizophrenic who tried to convince you to live in his world, and was convinced that that was the only way that was right. Even within IBM they never integrated, they staunchly maintained their not-one-of-us culture.
Mozilla meanwhile sees Microsoft's move as further validation that users should switch to Firefox. "This just increases the importance of Mozilla's role as the only independent choice.
Mozilla, for people to choose you, they have to pick you because you're a good alternative, not just because you're an alternative. The fact that Fred Mbogo is an alternative to my local hospital doesn't mean I'm going to go to him if I break my arm. If I wanted to run Chrome I'd run the actual Chrome, not the crappy second-rate copy of it that you've turned Firefox into.
The one that says it's not possible. However, "post-quantum" is a really hot buzzword, possibly even hotter than "blockchain" now that that one's burning out, so there's a lot of academic kudos and, once someone figures out how to commercialise it, money to be made peddling quantum crypto anything. The hype cycle tends to be 3-5 years before disillusionment, so we've got awhile to go yet.
For my part, I predict we'll have fusion reactors and Mars colonies before we have quantum cryptanalysis, so there's plenty of time to publish endless masturbatory post-quantum articles and papers.f
How about shipping some silicon that actually covers all the 4G bands before you start going on about how great your support for nonexistent 5G is? At the moment I don't think there's anything that offers full coverage of 4G bands for global use, so why not deal with that issue first?
They're nowhere near as reliable as people think, they just use different over-the-air channels than cellular does (but often the same backhaul). So if there's a cellular outage and it's an OTA issue then pagers may still work.
The real issue is that since cellular is used by everyone everywhere, outages get noticed and fixed at top priority while pager outages may not be noticed for awhile and there's less pressure to fix them when they do occur. So given the choice I'd take cellular, because that's the mechanism that gets all the love from its owners.
It depends on who was sending the signal to whom. Don't think of it as a legal ruling, think of it as someone sending a message. Presumably it reached the intended recipients if an entire country was affected.
Come on. Who writes these abstracts? Google Translate?
Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of all, Katherine, break thy mind to me in broken English.
This is Russia, they're down until someone pays the appropriate people more than Springer's fixers did, or an agency gets into a turf war with the one who facilitated the blocking, or one of a million other things that decide how things work in Russia goes into effect.
Slashdot Mirror
In Colorado it's "should I light up another one or save it for tomorrow?"
In Arkansas it's "should I worry whether Cousin Mom and Uncle Dad are my real parents?"
In Alaska it's "should I buy my husband a new set of seal clubs for Christmas?"
In Oklahoma it's "should I have deep-fried bread, deep-fried cornflakes, or deep-fried omelets for breakfast?"
it is made clear that home users are intentionally being given updates that are not necessarily ready for deployment
All Windows 10 users are given updates that are not necessarily ready for deployment, that's how Windows 10 updates work.
SAAS = Software As A Service.
Are you sure? In my experience it's been most Shit as as Service.
Terminal emulation software includes the lesser DEC VT100
Great, rub it in. When I grew up we could only afford a VT-52, you insensitive clod!
Japan has a huge labor shortage, and many aged people keep working (have you ever looked at who drives the million taxis in Tokyo?).
Retired kamikaze pilots if my experience is anything to go by.
Better solution: Settle all of Japan's ageing population near the ocean, and move the young'uns inland. That'll solve two problems at once.
With Miniscribe hard drives, they did that straight from the factory (although it was bricks, not blocks of wood).
The bottom always supports those above.
But then things fall apart; the centre cannot hold! Anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The description should be "was", not "is". I've talked to a number of people working on blockchain stuff for different organisations, including in some cases multinational corporations, of which exactly zero are using the blockchain for technical purposes. In all cases it's for political reasons, if your problem solution includes the term "blockchain" it gets funded, if it doesn't then it may or may not get funded, but certainly a lot less so than if it does. In some cases they were quite open about it, in others less so, after about an hour of going through their technology I asked "where's the blockchain in all this"... "oh yeah, uh, about the blockchain...".
It's also because no reviewer worth their salt would ever, ever write an objective review based on actual measurements when they can churn out endless subjective reviews. The entire high-end audio industry is built on reviewers arbitrary opinions, devoid of any actual measurements or testing. That's reserved for third-party sites and blogs that point out how ridiculous most high-end audio reviews and claims are.
It's the developers too, they need to show on their resumes that they worked on something "innovative".
They didn't need a resume any more since they were working for Lotus. They had now reached perfection.
I'm only half-joking when I say that...
In theory yes, in practice I doubt it. Remember, this is Ajit Pai's FCC, not the FCC of old, their task will be to figure out how the carriers' positions can be interpreted so that no action is required, not to slap the carriers upside the head for lying to them.
As I have matured in my career I had grown to a point where I have to say No to a lot of development requests. Not because they are bad ideas or I am unable to program them. But because it would add complexity to the program that would become a sliding scale of bringing a product into becoming unusable.
That's a big issue in particular with open-source stuff, it's not your users who are idiots who need to be brought around to your way of thinking, it's you who have created something that may be fine for you but it's nearly unusable for an outsider. A prime example of this was a well-known OSS video editing suite that a friend of mine, a 2D compositor with decades of experience, told me about. The alternatives were five-figure commercial products, but this suite was doomed to be a permanent also-ran because the devs were absolutely determined to keep doing it their way, which was different from how every other suite in the industry did it. They would argue till they were blue in the face that their way was perfect (it wasn't, it was just different), but couldn't see that by choosing to be incompatible with everything else in the entire industry they were dooming themselves to irrelevance, or at least lack of any mainstream adoption.
I guess it's time to link to this, which we ran into at work some years ago. Ended up getting printed as a poster and stuck on walls until The Mgt. complained about the swearing in it. Which was strange really, swearing seems to be a natural part of using Notes.
The problem with Firefox was, and to be honest still is, that it's a memory hog, and has been since Firefox 4
Last week I got notified that a simple resource-exhaustion bug I'd reported some time ago had had its status updated in that someone had reported that it's still present in the very latest release. I traced back through the endless "try the latest release and see if it's magically fixed itself in the meantime because we don't give a fuck" responses from Mozilla devs.
Eventually I got back to the original bug report. When I reported it, the browser was called Phoenix.
That really says it all for Mozilla and their attitude towards their product.
I have used Lotus Notes. Unfortunately. It was THE worst mail interface and groupware suit I have ever had the misfortune to use.
I talked to one of the original Notes creators once. Notes was brilliant, it's just that people didn't understand it. Everything in it was just the way it should be, it wasn't the Notes creators fault that everyone else was an idiot and didn't appreciate their fine design. That was roughly their attitude towards their users. It was like talking to a schizophrenic who tried to convince you to live in his world, and was convinced that that was the only way that was right. Even within IBM they never integrated, they staunchly maintained their not-one-of-us culture.
"Included among these is everyone's favorite email and calendaring tool, Lotus Notes and Domino."
Saying Notes and Domino are everyone's favourite email tools is like saying syphilis and gonorrhea are everyone's favourite STD.
(Yes, I know it was meant sarcastically, but that's roughly what Notes and Domino equate to).
Mozilla meanwhile sees Microsoft's move as further validation that users should switch to Firefox. "This just increases the importance of Mozilla's role as the only independent choice.
Mozilla, for people to choose you, they have to pick you because you're a good alternative, not just because you're an alternative. The fact that Fred Mbogo is an alternative to my local hospital doesn't mean I'm going to go to him if I break my arm. If I wanted to run Chrome I'd run the actual Chrome, not the crappy second-rate copy of it that you've turned Firefox into.
The one that says it's not possible. However, "post-quantum" is a really hot buzzword, possibly even hotter than "blockchain" now that that one's burning out, so there's a lot of academic kudos and, once someone figures out how to commercialise it, money to be made peddling quantum crypto anything. The hype cycle tends to be 3-5 years before disillusionment, so we've got awhile to go yet.
For my part, I predict we'll have fusion reactors and Mars colonies before we have quantum cryptanalysis, so there's plenty of time to publish endless masturbatory post-quantum articles and papers.f
Dear Qualcomm,
How about shipping some silicon that actually covers all the 4G bands before you start going on about how great your support for nonexistent 5G is? At the moment I don't think there's anything that offers full coverage of 4G bands for global use, so why not deal with that issue first?
(Signed) Angry of Rudman.
They're nowhere near as reliable as people think, they just use different over-the-air channels than cellular does (but often the same backhaul). So if there's a cellular outage and it's an OTA issue then pagers may still work.
The real issue is that since cellular is used by everyone everywhere, outages get noticed and fixed at top priority while pager outages may not be noticed for awhile and there's less pressure to fix them when they do occur. So given the choice I'd take cellular, because that's the mechanism that gets all the love from its owners.
His move to get China to respect IP will be at least as effective as his move to disarm North Korea.
Do the US negotiators seriously believe this will change anything, or are they just playing along in order to claim a propaganda victory?
It depends on who was sending the signal to whom. Don't think of it as a legal ruling, think of it as someone sending a message. Presumably it reached the intended recipients if an entire country was affected.
Come on. Who writes these abstracts? Google Translate?
Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of all, Katherine, break thy mind to me in broken English.
This is Russia, they're down until someone pays the appropriate people more than Springer's fixers did, or an agency gets into a turf war with the one who facilitated the blocking, or one of a million other things that decide how things work in Russia goes into effect.