Actually, Linux needs competition or it will start to run out of reasons to make it better. In future, it looks like the BSD family will be pretty much it.
Thanks, Sun/Oracle for erecting barriers around DTrace, thus motivating even better tracing in Linux. Thanks also for doing the same to ZFS, thus saving the rest of us from that sprawling abomination.
Actually, Solaris was de facto a single platform OS - namely for SPARCs. Sun did have that experiment w/ OpenSolaris, but once Oracle sabotaged it, and even surviving forks like OpenIndiana were x86 only, it was a lost cause.
I would like to see SPARC survive, though, w/ either Linux or *BSD on it. It would however be nice if it weren't something available only from Oracle
This is what struck me, and one thing I love about him. In 2008, even though I disagreed strongly w/ Obama, I supported him b'cos I wanted both Hilary and McCain to be downed, and he did it. This election cycle, he ended first the Bush, and then the Clinton dynasty. Although to be fair, even had Trump not been in the race, Rubio or Cruz may have toppled Bush at least, if not Clinton
that someone who has no clue how to run a business or deal with financials can have this much sway
he's gotten lucky all through life. i've seen other wealthy people like this, dumb as a box of rocks and no clue how anything really works in the world, yet they have a ton of money and got lucky owning and running a company that somehow hasn't gone under yet.
The real amazement is that someone who has 'no clue how to run a business or deal with financials' is a billionaire. I don't either - how do I pull that off?
Also, w/ all the controls they are putting on all their media, including social media, what will they do w/ 5G? They are busy contemplating teaching Jihad in school
, so what exactly will 5G do for them? Enable them to blow up a Western embassy in Brunei?
One thing I wonder - why not make these things a part of an Intranet of Things? In other words, you can have a home router NOT connected to the internet, but connected to your fridge or TV or oven, and all w/ just non-routable addresses. Maybe have your iPhone or iPad connected to it as well, so that sitting on your sofa, you can turn your oven on or off, and monitor its temperature and maybe whether the pork chops are done or not. Or from a barcode reader in your fridge, scan whether the beer case is empty, or a new butter is needed. Such a thing would work even during an internet outage: you won't even need Comcast or Charter. Maybe the thing could even warn you in the event of a power outage, so that you decide to marinade the chicken that was in the fridge and cook it at the next available opportunity.
I actually do think that some Internet of Things functionality is useful - like the ability to remotely open a door for a family member from my cellphone. But yeah, I do agree that a lot of the claimed benefits are overblown
Why not just turn off your router? Or, if your router has multiple SSIDs, have one of them private and undetectable (unless you already know its name) and hook your fridge and TV and everything to it, and disable it whenever you want. Other things, like say, your computer, put it on another SSID if needed.
Precisely. The key thing enabling IoT was IPv6, since that's needed if one wants random devices connected to the internet. Here, end to end is important, since most embedded devices are unlikely to have things like Layer 2 addresses that one associates w/ Ethernet or WiFi cards.
The 4G, or LTE spec, already mandated IPv6 support, which is why it's already there. 5G can help by improving speeds, but other than that, there is no reason that 5G enabled IoT in a way that 4G doesn't. Besides, having a barcode reader as one of the devices on such a network would hardly make a difference whether it was on a 4G or a 5G network
What is the Canadian spelling, then? I thought that Canada is just Britain in North America, except that their currency is a Canadian dollar rather than a Canadian pound
Snowden, unlike Assange, did nothing for Trump in the election: in fact, he tried to debunk Trump's claim that it was impossible for the FBI to go through all those Wiener laptop Clinton emails. So Trump has no reason to do anything for him. What does surprise me is if Obama could commute the sentence of Manning, why not pardon Snowden as well? Both are traitors, so why should one get preferential treatment over the others?
Trump's lack of trust is for the CIA, which brought out the 'dossier' on him. He accepted the NSA's claims/findings when they told him the extent to which Russia was involved in this election
One person in this election already talked about giving Snowden a cabinet position, and no, it wasn't Trump. It was Jill Stein. While Assange timed his leaks to hurt Clinton every way possible, Snowden was actually supportive of the Dems, like when he debunked Trump's claim that those Wiener laptop emails couldn't have all been scanned in 1 week
By 'a certain platform', I meant not locked to just one of Android, iOS or Windows. Amazon is available on all 3, and Kindle is an Android platform, not something unique. If you get a book on Amazon, you can read it from any of these. I'm not sure that that's the case if you buy a Microsoft E-Book or something from iTunes
Can't imagine which nation could possibly have a motive against Ukraine, especially one with a track record of cyber attacks and offensive maneuvers against Ukraine...
So what exactly does Julian Assange have against Kyiv?
Not just that, I've also avoided buying anything from either Apple's or Google's stores. Point is - if I want something, I'd rather have it anywhere I choose. All my books are from Amazon, so that I can read it from either my iPad or my Ellipsis. Years ago, I bought some songs from iTunes, but if I have to do so today, I'd use Vevo. Not that I do: I download music videos from YouTube and have created a library of my own songs that I can seamlessly play on either my Ellipsis or my Lumia. Unfortunately, I can't put it on my iPad - the video player there just doesn't recognize it, even if I use iTunes.
I'd actually prefer that Verizon acquire Comcast, rather than Charter. I liked both Charter and TWC, but I don't like Comcast. I'd rather see Verizon put the latter out of my misery
Sorry, I read 'Iraq' in your post rather than 'Iran'. The last time Iran was relatively 'secular' was under the Pahlevis, who at least respected religious pluralism, if not political. At no point in Iran's history was it democratic, and it was only under the Pahlevis that it became somewhat secular (although they were still sponsoring mosques in places like Taiwan).
One thing they could do - try selling it to AMD or any company that would like some extra capacity, like Global Foundries. Although I was under the impression that they had sold it ages ago
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FreeBSD now uses OpenZFS, which as Guruevi mentioned, is not the same as ZFS.
Actually, Linux needs competition or it will start to run out of reasons to make it better. In future, it looks like the BSD family will be pretty much it.
Thanks, Sun/Oracle for erecting barriers around DTrace, thus motivating even better tracing in Linux. Thanks also for doing the same to ZFS, thus saving the rest of us from that sprawling abomination.
Actually, Solaris was de facto a single platform OS - namely for SPARCs. Sun did have that experiment w/ OpenSolaris, but once Oracle sabotaged it, and even surviving forks like OpenIndiana were x86 only, it was a lost cause.
I would like to see SPARC survive, though, w/ either Linux or *BSD on it. It would however be nice if it weren't something available only from Oracle
This is what struck me, and one thing I love about him. In 2008, even though I disagreed strongly w/ Obama, I supported him b'cos I wanted both Hilary and McCain to be downed, and he did it. This election cycle, he ended first the Bush, and then the Clinton dynasty. Although to be fair, even had Trump not been in the race, Rubio or Cruz may have toppled Bush at least, if not Clinton
that someone who has no clue how to run a business or deal with financials can have this much sway
he's gotten lucky all through life. i've seen other wealthy people like this, dumb as a box of rocks and no clue how anything really works in the world, yet they have a ton of money and got lucky owning and running a company that somehow hasn't gone under yet.
The real amazement is that someone who has 'no clue how to run a business or deal with financials' is a billionaire. I don't either - how do I pull that off?
Also, w/ all the controls they are putting on all their media, including social media, what will they do w/ 5G? They are busy contemplating teaching Jihad in school
, so what exactly will 5G do for them? Enable them to blow up a Western embassy in Brunei?
One thing I wonder - why not make these things a part of an Intranet of Things? In other words, you can have a home router NOT connected to the internet, but connected to your fridge or TV or oven, and all w/ just non-routable addresses. Maybe have your iPhone or iPad connected to it as well, so that sitting on your sofa, you can turn your oven on or off, and monitor its temperature and maybe whether the pork chops are done or not. Or from a barcode reader in your fridge, scan whether the beer case is empty, or a new butter is needed. Such a thing would work even during an internet outage: you won't even need Comcast or Charter. Maybe the thing could even warn you in the event of a power outage, so that you decide to marinade the chicken that was in the fridge and cook it at the next available opportunity.
I actually do think that some Internet of Things functionality is useful - like the ability to remotely open a door for a family member from my cellphone. But yeah, I do agree that a lot of the claimed benefits are overblown
Why not just turn off your router? Or, if your router has multiple SSIDs, have one of them private and undetectable (unless you already know its name) and hook your fridge and TV and everything to it, and disable it whenever you want. Other things, like say, your computer, put it on another SSID if needed.
Precisely. The key thing enabling IoT was IPv6, since that's needed if one wants random devices connected to the internet. Here, end to end is important, since most embedded devices are unlikely to have things like Layer 2 addresses that one associates w/ Ethernet or WiFi cards.
The 4G, or LTE spec, already mandated IPv6 support, which is why it's already there. 5G can help by improving speeds, but other than that, there is no reason that 5G enabled IoT in a way that 4G doesn't. Besides, having a barcode reader as one of the devices on such a network would hardly make a difference whether it was on a 4G or a 5G network
I don't use any of them - not Okay Google, not Siri and not Cortana
That's the first thought that occurred to me. I'm headed to bed
More like China-made global warming.
They make the bulk of everything else, so why not this?
Any reason Microsoft picked Intel's chosen distro, as opposed to one from Oracle, Debian, Red Hat or Suse?
What is Azure's native OS? If it's not FreeBSD, how do you run FreeBSD off it?
If the only tool you have is a hammer....
Vevo is a lot better when it comes to music videos, which is how I get my music these days: like to watch the original videos
What is the Canadian spelling, then? I thought that Canada is just Britain in North America, except that their currency is a Canadian dollar rather than a Canadian pound
Snowden != Assange; NSA != CIA
Snowden, unlike Assange, did nothing for Trump in the election: in fact, he tried to debunk Trump's claim that it was impossible for the FBI to go through all those Wiener laptop Clinton emails. So Trump has no reason to do anything for him. What does surprise me is if Obama could commute the sentence of Manning, why not pardon Snowden as well? Both are traitors, so why should one get preferential treatment over the others?
Trump's lack of trust is for the CIA, which brought out the 'dossier' on him. He accepted the NSA's claims/findings when they told him the extent to which Russia was involved in this election
Snowden != Assange
One person in this election already talked about giving Snowden a cabinet position, and no, it wasn't Trump. It was Jill Stein. While Assange timed his leaks to hurt Clinton every way possible, Snowden was actually supportive of the Dems, like when he debunked Trump's claim that those Wiener laptop emails couldn't have all been scanned in 1 week
By 'a certain platform', I meant not locked to just one of Android, iOS or Windows. Amazon is available on all 3, and Kindle is an Android platform, not something unique. If you get a book on Amazon, you can read it from any of these. I'm not sure that that's the case if you buy a Microsoft E-Book or something from iTunes
Can't imagine which nation could possibly have a motive against Ukraine, especially one with a track record of cyber attacks and offensive maneuvers against Ukraine...
So what exactly does Julian Assange have against Kyiv?
I use it, but only for things that I don't need to pay for. One of my favorite apps - Hyper - disappeared from the store
That's what I do: I don't want to buy books that are only good as long as I have a certain platform
Not just that, I've also avoided buying anything from either Apple's or Google's stores. Point is - if I want something, I'd rather have it anywhere I choose. All my books are from Amazon, so that I can read it from either my iPad or my Ellipsis. Years ago, I bought some songs from iTunes, but if I have to do so today, I'd use Vevo. Not that I do: I download music videos from YouTube and have created a library of my own songs that I can seamlessly play on either my Ellipsis or my Lumia. Unfortunately, I can't put it on my iPad - the video player there just doesn't recognize it, even if I use iTunes.
I'd actually prefer that Verizon acquire Comcast, rather than Charter. I liked both Charter and TWC, but I don't like Comcast. I'd rather see Verizon put the latter out of my misery
Sorry, I read 'Iraq' in your post rather than 'Iran'. The last time Iran was relatively 'secular' was under the Pahlevis, who at least respected religious pluralism, if not political. At no point in Iran's history was it democratic, and it was only under the Pahlevis that it became somewhat secular (although they were still sponsoring mosques in places like Taiwan).
One thing they could do - try selling it to AMD or any company that would like some extra capacity, like Global Foundries. Although I was under the impression that they had sold it ages ago