The hub and spoke model is ending or more accurately losing relevance, and it's taking planes like the A380 that were designed to serve a hub-and-spoke model with it.
Good news. The hub-and-spoke model needs to die a quick death. If that means taking impressive planes like the A380 with it, so be it. You haven't known anxiety unless you have been subjected to the experience of running around the airport with your handbag trying to catch the second leg of your flight (after the first leg has been delayed) because the flight after the one you are about to miss is scheduled for tomorrow at 6:30AM.
Some programmers are STILL designing stuff with the assumption something won't still be there 40 years later. The DVB standard has a roll-over date in 2038 (that's a project created in 1992 no less!) and Go has UnixNano which has a rollover date in 2262 (because of course the graybeards that gave us the original 2038 bug and unsafe arrays couldn't build a decent language the third time).
BTW you don't need a 64-bit number to have dates that go beyond 2038. You may need 2 or 3 32-bit numbers too It's all a matter of formatting. All these time storage bug were a result of massive lack of foresight. Also, Go uses a single 64-bit value to count nanoseconds from epoch (*sigh*). Now that's some lack of foresight that you don't see every day.
Changing the injection profile of an ICE car nullifies the smog-check certificate and may make the car emit more pollution that it's government-approved specifications. Also, the ECU of a modern car controls the ABS and the airbags.
And they are doing so illegally (by nulifying their inspection/smog check certificate but still driving their vehicle on public roads), much like the people who install large exhausts with no catalytic converter in their vehicles. So, yes it can be done, but you will probably be breaking some regulations doing so. This is a question open-source and free software advocates have to answer: In tightly regulated computers, like a car computer, should the 4 freedoms the FSF touts still apply?
IMO incumbents should be forced to open up their network to other providers like it's happening in Europe. Their network runs over public property and have no private ownership rights to it. And other providers should have unrestricted access to poles and ducts to lay new network.
Yes it's more important to have neutrality on 10Mbps than to have a competitor that will give you Netflix at 150Mbps and everything else at 50Mbps. Because that gives Netflix an unfair advantage compared to a new competitor. Imagine if what you propose was done when iTunes was the major paid content provider. There would be no Netflix or the experience would be markedly worse.
Which is the real problem here. Why do utilities have private ownership of poles or ducts that are located on public property? Shouldn't they be forced to lease them or something?
Realistically, a "cloud-enhanced" version of Libre office with collaboration features and seamless server-side storage would be a nice way for LibreOffice to raise money.
Now don't get me wrong, Microsoft has the right to evolve OOXML to support new features, but instead of doing it silently, the right thing would be to introduce proper versioning in the OOXML format. But then governments would standardise on a particular version and then Microsoft would have to commit to proper downwards support (aka telling users what will is supported in each format version and make users choose a version before putting anything in the document), instead of doing what they do now, aka presenting a vague warning when saving and then silently mangling the document. At the current state of affairs your best bet is to always have the latest Office so everything opens as intended. Which is what Microsoft wants anyway. "Want to make sure all the documents that people send you open properly? Pay us regularly". I am a big fan of Windows btw, but I dislike Office and the whole OOXML shifting target thing. Fortunately we use Google Docs at work and don't have to deal with it. Back in uni I had to have the latest MS Office version to open professor powerpoints.
ODF documents don't open well in MS Office. In fact LibreOffice is much better at opening OOXML than MS Office is at opening ODF. Sure people can always install LibreOffice for free but good luck convincing a professor or boss to do collaboration/editing on a different office suite. Or to send you LibreOffice files instead of OOXML which means they have to change office suites or risk document mangling by saving ODF from MS Office. Yes OOXML is evil. No, some people can't escape it due to network effects. Yes please deal with the fact it's not a just world.
Don't need the latest MS Office features? No problem, Microsoft has a solution for that. Constant format changes (which you have to track if you want files that other MS Office users send you to open properly) will make sure you 'll have to buy the newest MS Office version. Or subscribe to Office 365 when "buy" is not an option anymore. Good luck convincing your boss or your professor how he should change Office suites or how he should not use the latest version of the Office suite (or that he should risk document mangling by using an older format version). The tactic is called "planned obsolescence by use of network effects" btw...
Almost nobody bought $500 of bitcoin when it was a Slashdot joke, and the few that did sold it at either $250 or $1000 shortly afterwards, depending on how they reacted to the roller coaster ride back then. Nobody was hoarding tulips before the tulip mania hit and nobody was hoarding bitcoins before the cryptocurrency speculation frenzy happened. Ok maybe one or two people did so don't take "nobody" literally. My point is that unless you are a speculator who knows how to play this game you 'd better off buying a lottery ticket or simply saving up your money.
BitCoin succeeded as a bubble for speculators but not as a currency as the Slashot zealots predicted. HTC learned this the hard way, with their "Exodus" phone costing an unafforable £1000 one month and a sweet £350 the next one.
This is how Android's problematic security updates will become a real problem. People will now keep old unpatched Android devices for longer, so all it will take is one golden exploit (think of Stagefright but self-propagating like MS Blaster of old) to bring down the Android ecosystem. Because most devices in the ecosystem are unpatchable.
We are using some Microsoft OS for desktops and laptops (the majority of us) and Linux is slowly being shown the door in mobile (please Google Fuschia)
When Slashdot zealots say that something is gonna be big (MeeGo, Desktop Linux) sell sell sell. When Slashdot zealots say that something will fail (iPhone, iPad, Tesla, SpaceX) invest invest invest.
If Linux hadn't existed we 'd be running FreeBSD or even some microkernel OS instead (like Darwin). Linux was politically superior (due to its copyleft license empowering the million-man army of Stallman zealots) not technically superior.
The "danger" to Disney is that if Steamboat Willie went into the public domain, anyone could distribute the Steamboat Willie movie and derivatives of it as long as they don't use the phrase "Mickey Mouse" anywhere, but implying their work is part of the Mickey Mouse franchise. This is uncharted territory (how much will it dilute the brand etc), which is why Disney wants to avoid it. Still, such a long copyright protection term is ridiculous, let Disney figure this out.
Correct remarks. After all, the ultimate luxury is having the time and ability to tackle non-problems (such as the government supposedly spying you from your phone, even if it's a dumbphone)
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The hub and spoke model is ending or more accurately losing relevance, and it's taking planes like the A380 that were designed to serve a hub-and-spoke model with it.
Good news. The hub-and-spoke model needs to die a quick death. If that means taking impressive planes like the A380 with it, so be it. You haven't known anxiety unless you have been subjected to the experience of running around the airport with your handbag trying to catch the second leg of your flight (after the first leg has been delayed) because the flight after the one you are about to miss is scheduled for tomorrow at 6:30AM.
Missed the OS X part. Sometimes I forget significant part of OS X is NextStep. Anyway, still a minority OS.
And as usual the best technology didn't make it. Oh well, at least this state of affairs will keep us computer people employed.
Some programmers are STILL designing stuff with the assumption something won't still be there 40 years later. The DVB standard has a roll-over date in 2038 (that's a project created in 1992 no less!) and Go has UnixNano which has a rollover date in 2262 (because of course the graybeards that gave us the original 2038 bug and unsafe arrays couldn't build a decent language the third time). BTW you don't need a 64-bit number to have dates that go beyond 2038. You may need 2 or 3 32-bit numbers too It's all a matter of formatting. All these time storage bug were a result of massive lack of foresight. Also, Go uses a single 64-bit value to count nanoseconds from epoch (*sigh*). Now that's some lack of foresight that you don't see every day.
Changing the injection profile of an ICE car nullifies the smog-check certificate and may make the car emit more pollution that it's government-approved specifications. Also, the ECU of a modern car controls the ABS and the airbags.
And they are doing so illegally (by nulifying their inspection/smog check certificate but still driving their vehicle on public roads), much like the people who install large exhausts with no catalytic converter in their vehicles. So, yes it can be done, but you will probably be breaking some regulations doing so. This is a question open-source and free software advocates have to answer: In tightly regulated computers, like a car computer, should the 4 freedoms the FSF touts still apply?
IMO incumbents should be forced to open up their network to other providers like it's happening in Europe. Their network runs over public property and have no private ownership rights to it. And other providers should have unrestricted access to poles and ducts to lay new network.
Yes it's more important to have neutrality on 10Mbps than to have a competitor that will give you Netflix at 150Mbps and everything else at 50Mbps. Because that gives Netflix an unfair advantage compared to a new competitor. Imagine if what you propose was done when iTunes was the major paid content provider. There would be no Netflix or the experience would be markedly worse.
Which is the real problem here. Why do utilities have private ownership of poles or ducts that are located on public property? Shouldn't they be forced to lease them or something?
Realistically, a "cloud-enhanced" version of Libre office with collaboration features and seamless server-side storage would be a nice way for LibreOffice to raise money.
Now don't get me wrong, Microsoft has the right to evolve OOXML to support new features, but instead of doing it silently, the right thing would be to introduce proper versioning in the OOXML format. But then governments would standardise on a particular version and then Microsoft would have to commit to proper downwards support (aka telling users what will is supported in each format version and make users choose a version before putting anything in the document), instead of doing what they do now, aka presenting a vague warning when saving and then silently mangling the document. At the current state of affairs your best bet is to always have the latest Office so everything opens as intended. Which is what Microsoft wants anyway. "Want to make sure all the documents that people send you open properly? Pay us regularly". I am a big fan of Windows btw, but I dislike Office and the whole OOXML shifting target thing. Fortunately we use Google Docs at work and don't have to deal with it. Back in uni I had to have the latest MS Office version to open professor powerpoints.
There you go: https://support.office.com/en-... Trivial indeed.
ODF documents don't open well in MS Office. In fact LibreOffice is much better at opening OOXML than MS Office is at opening ODF. Sure people can always install LibreOffice for free but good luck convincing a professor or boss to do collaboration/editing on a different office suite. Or to send you LibreOffice files instead of OOXML which means they have to change office suites or risk document mangling by saving ODF from MS Office. Yes OOXML is evil. No, some people can't escape it due to network effects. Yes please deal with the fact it's not a just world.
Don't need the latest MS Office features? No problem, Microsoft has a solution for that. Constant format changes (which you have to track if you want files that other MS Office users send you to open properly) will make sure you 'll have to buy the newest MS Office version. Or subscribe to Office 365 when "buy" is not an option anymore. Good luck convincing your boss or your professor how he should change Office suites or how he should not use the latest version of the Office suite (or that he should risk document mangling by using an older format version). The tactic is called "planned obsolescence by use of network effects" btw...
Almost nobody bought $500 of bitcoin when it was a Slashdot joke, and the few that did sold it at either $250 or $1000 shortly afterwards, depending on how they reacted to the roller coaster ride back then. Nobody was hoarding tulips before the tulip mania hit and nobody was hoarding bitcoins before the cryptocurrency speculation frenzy happened. Ok maybe one or two people did so don't take "nobody" literally. My point is that unless you are a speculator who knows how to play this game you 'd better off buying a lottery ticket or simply saving up your money.
BitCoin succeeded as a bubble for speculators but not as a currency as the Slashot zealots predicted. HTC learned this the hard way, with their "Exodus" phone costing an unafforable £1000 one month and a sweet £350 the next one.
This is how Android's problematic security updates will become a real problem. People will now keep old unpatched Android devices for longer, so all it will take is one golden exploit (think of Stagefright but self-propagating like MS Blaster of old) to bring down the Android ecosystem. Because most devices in the ecosystem are unpatchable.
We are using some Microsoft OS for desktops and laptops (the majority of us) and Linux is slowly being shown the door in mobile (please Google Fuschia)
When Slashdot zealots say that something is gonna be big (MeeGo, Desktop Linux) sell sell sell. When Slashdot zealots say that something will fail (iPhone, iPad, Tesla, SpaceX) invest invest invest.
Well that's the first time I hear it was done forty years ago. Was it some short-lived experiment?
If Linux hadn't existed we 'd be running FreeBSD or even some microkernel OS instead (like Darwin). Linux was politically superior (due to its copyleft license empowering the million-man army of Stallman zealots) not technically superior.
The "danger" to Disney is that if Steamboat Willie went into the public domain, anyone could distribute the Steamboat Willie movie and derivatives of it as long as they don't use the phrase "Mickey Mouse" anywhere, but implying their work is part of the Mickey Mouse franchise. This is uncharted territory (how much will it dilute the brand etc), which is why Disney wants to avoid it. Still, such a long copyright protection term is ridiculous, let Disney figure this out.
Doesn't change the fact that Apple sold laptops with these defective "SuperDrives" for years and Jobs kept lying about it not being a problem.
Correct remarks. After all, the ultimate luxury is having the time and ability to tackle non-problems (such as the government supposedly spying you from your phone, even if it's a dumbphone)