Which may be law, given all the patents where you take something people have been doing for decades, add the words 'on a computer' and get a goldmine. Depends on the lawyers and the judge.
Yes, but you get a trademark for a specific set of business activities, like gelatin snacks, tires, or desktop software, not for every possible use of a word.
It's not really Chrome, it's a Chrome wrapper around the Safari rendering engine. Not because iOS couldn't run the Chrome rendering engine - them's just the rules. Even as a big fan of Apple, shit like that makes me mad. Just not mad enough to put up with Android.
Even with just checksums, knowing that there is corruption means knowing to restore from backups. And in the consumer space most people have plenty of space to keep parity if it comes to that.
Good backups aren't enough. If the filesystem isn't flagging corruption as it happens, the backup software will happily back up your corrupted data over and over until the last backup which has the valid file in it has expired or become unrecoverable itself.
My old boss used to kill his laptops with a glass of wine every year or so. So far my cats have yet to fully kill a computer (though they did zap a motherboard with static electricity once).
No. The employee's lost time and productivity of an employee dealing with a broken device will almost certainly cost the company more than just replacing the device promptly, without any fussing. A new standard keyboard or mouse is on the order of $20. I'd imagine that the cost to a Silicon Valley tech company of having an employee with a broken keyboard for the day, or away from his/her desk fetching a new keyboard is on the order of $50-$100. No brainer.
OS History Roughly MS/DOS 3, MacOS 6, CP/M -> MS Xenix (On a TRS/80 Model 2 modded to 16b specs) -> Minix -> SLS -> MCC (IIRC) -> Slackware -> Red Hat -> Mandrake -> Debian -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Windows Xp, Windows 7, MacOS X
With occasional excursions to BSD/386, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD choking due to unsupported or fussy hardware, and later discarded due to a userspace that made Linux feel full featured and easy. And probably a few other visits to Debian along the way.
Yes, but what OS on the TRS 80? For that matter what TRS 80? 'Cause you got TRS DOS (IIRC), CP/M, Xenix, and maybe a couple other OSish options, on hardware that at times was barely related.
True. And also true that I don't do or say anything much that would be substantially offensive. But keeping my private life apart from my work life is something that I do value. And even if I didn't value it, the problem isn't nearly so much the employer as the employer's customers. I've quite deliberately not friended even my friends at work, because that's a social network that could easily expand to a lot of people in front of whom I have an obligation to behave with a modicum of professionalism.
Why would I have any problem working for a company that forced me to join a social network? I wouldn't join with the same profile that I used personally. I would keep my business activities with the site strictly segregated from my personal persona (if any). But if the cost of losing your privacy as an employee to a google or a Facebook accrues almost entirely to your employer, not to you.
What could cause the corruption: Cosmic rays, Bad sectors, Weird bugs
Why is this a problem: "Unless it is very carefully done, this kind of format could lose a lot of logging data as the result of a relatively small corruption"
(http://lwn.net/Articles/467892/)
You can script mysql databases, assuming the data files are intact, mysql is intact and runs on the server, and you have functioning tools and the skill to use them. ASCII logfiles will be readable in spite of spot corruption and can be processed with grep / head / tail -- if these primitives don't work it probably doesn't matter what's in the log.
The wise professional is intensely mistrustful of innovation. Innovation introduces new failure modes and deprecates tested methods and experience. Innovation is always born half baked, unreliable and unsupported. By the time all the problems are solved with a given innovation, it's design will typically prove to be just as compromised and unsexy as its predecessor - and then the cycle of "innovation" repeats. Some innovations have sufficient value to overcome their costs - many don't.
On the requires Windows side:
- garbage CRM uses ActiveX
- Exchange
Doesn't work with Linux:
- the iPhone
On the tired of Linux side (used linux from ancient days):
- developers keep fiddling with my interface
- hardware support still uneven and unreliable, especially graphics and (surprisingly) network
- inconsistent copy/paste behavior
- Netflix, espn3
I used to have time to fiddle with this sort of thing. I don't want to do that anymore.
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Which may be law, given all the patents where you take something people have been doing for decades, add the words 'on a computer' and get a goldmine. Depends on the lawyers and the judge.
Yes, but you get a trademark for a specific set of business activities, like gelatin snacks, tires, or desktop software, not for every possible use of a word.
I'm not a lawyer, but a POS and a desktop environment don't seem like overlapping categories for Trademark purposes.
It's not really Chrome, it's a Chrome wrapper around the Safari rendering engine. Not because iOS couldn't run the Chrome rendering engine - them's just the rules. Even as a big fan of Apple, shit like that makes me mad. Just not mad enough to put up with Android.
Even with just checksums, knowing that there is corruption means knowing to restore from backups. And in the consumer space most people have plenty of space to keep parity if it comes to that.
Good backups aren't enough. If the filesystem isn't flagging corruption as it happens, the backup software will happily back up your corrupted data over and over until the last backup which has the valid file in it has expired or become unrecoverable itself.
(Alcatel-)Lucent involved in a new massive layoff? It's another 90s revival. The scars never quite healed from starting my career there in the 90s.
My old boss used to kill his laptops with a glass of wine every year or so. So far my cats have yet to fully kill a computer (though they did zap a motherboard with static electricity once).
MondoMouse only claims to support 10.5 and 10.6. Non starter.
And I haven't heard of any third party mouse drivers supporting FFM. Could you point me to one, so that I can buy that mouse?
No. The employee's lost time and productivity of an employee dealing with a broken device will almost certainly cost the company more than just replacing the device promptly, without any fussing. A new standard keyboard or mouse is on the order of $20. I'd imagine that the cost to a Silicon Valley tech company of having an employee with a broken keyboard for the day, or away from his/her desk fetching a new keyboard is on the order of $50-$100. No brainer.
There are lots of these magic ways to make gas (bio waste to gas for instance) that actually work in a pilot plant. In mass production...
OS History Roughly
MS/DOS 3, MacOS 6, CP/M -> MS Xenix (On a TRS/80 Model 2 modded to 16b specs) -> Minix -> SLS -> MCC (IIRC) -> Slackware -> Red Hat -> Mandrake -> Debian -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Windows Xp, Windows 7, MacOS X
With occasional excursions to BSD/386, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD choking due to unsupported or fussy hardware, and later discarded due to a userspace that made Linux feel full featured and easy. And probably a few other visits to Debian along the way.
Getting pretty close to the root there. I think I started on SLS, but went to MCC because I wanted something that wasn't so bloaty.
Yes, but what OS on the TRS 80? For that matter what TRS 80? 'Cause you got TRS DOS (IIRC), CP/M, Xenix, and maybe a couple other OSish options, on hardware that at times was barely related.
Is there evidence that Apple actually hates them? Or is this more like those side bar ads:
Astronomers Hate Her. Housewife discovers 10 secrets for firm abs.
I got a broken case about six years ago. When that couldn't be returned I vowed, and stuck to never shopping there again.
Well, at least I'll have my memories of Chicago winter to keep me warm after I move there next week. It's way warmer than Seattle is cold right now.
True. And also true that I don't do or say anything much that would be substantially offensive. But keeping my private life apart from my work life is something that I do value. And even if I didn't value it, the problem isn't nearly so much the employer as the employer's customers. I've quite deliberately not friended even my friends at work, because that's a social network that could easily expand to a lot of people in front of whom I have an obligation to behave with a modicum of professionalism.
j(.*)mitchel(.*) is a common name, located in a large city.
Why would I have any problem working for a company that forced me to join a social network? I wouldn't join with the same profile that I used personally. I would keep my business activities with the site strictly segregated from my personal persona (if any). But if the cost of losing your privacy as an employee to a google or a Facebook accrues almost entirely to your employer, not to you.
Fuck all.
What could cause the corruption:
Cosmic rays, Bad sectors, Weird bugs
Why is this a problem:
"Unless it is very carefully done, this kind of format could lose a lot of logging data as the result of a relatively small corruption"
(http://lwn.net/Articles/467892/)
You can script mysql databases, assuming the data files are intact, mysql is intact and runs on the server, and you have functioning tools and the skill to use them. ASCII logfiles will be readable in spite of spot corruption and can be processed with grep / head / tail -- if these primitives don't work it probably doesn't matter what's in the log.
The wise professional is intensely mistrustful of innovation. Innovation introduces new failure modes and deprecates tested methods and experience. Innovation is always born half baked, unreliable and unsupported. By the time all the problems are solved with a given innovation, it's design will typically prove to be just as compromised and unsexy as its predecessor - and then the cycle of "innovation" repeats. Some innovations have sufficient value to overcome their costs - many don't.
And who said that OSS was about innovation?
On the requires Windows side:
- garbage CRM uses ActiveX
- Exchange
Doesn't work with Linux:
- the iPhone
On the tired of Linux side (used linux from ancient days):
- developers keep fiddling with my interface
- hardware support still uneven and unreliable, especially graphics and (surprisingly) network
- inconsistent copy/paste behavior
- Netflix, espn3
I used to have time to fiddle with this sort of thing. I don't want to do that anymore.