When the kernel API changes, you have a new operating system. It's 98% the same as the old one, but it's a new one. Might was well have a new name, but a new number will do.
The drivers will continue to work on the old one, which was no less free than the new one. If you want your hardware to work on the new one, you'll need to write drivers for it.
Which, really, is not at all hard once you've done ten or fifteen of them.
If you want an even more flaming-letters-50-feet-high example, look at Hector Ruiz at AMD. He ended up getting a $3 million bonus for selling their fabs off, turning a thriving semiconductor company into just another fabless design shop, and one with a rapidly shrinking customer base at that.
It is determined by the stockholders. The stockholders elect the board.
Of course, that system is pathetically easy to defraud by presenting candidates for the board who are easy for the shareholders to find nothing wrong with, and easier for the CEO to manipulate, or in cahoots with the CEO.
The problem is that 99% of stockholders are not "investors", but gamblers, putting their savings into a gambling game based on perception of corporate activity.
Once you start picking and choosing, you end up with something you can't justify in all cases, and the loopholes grow until those ship motors are being used in backyard generators.
It's also the fact that the project itself is outsourced. When you only know a few of the requirements before letting the contract, and have no means of managing the project yourself down to the line level, you hire someone else to do it. Then you have no control over internal project management, though the government does typically send along some people to audit and observe.
Blame is a freebie they get after the fact when something goes tits-up after costing 3X what it was bid for.
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He edits emacs the way anyone else edits their .cshrc file.
In fact, I think that's how he started.
Only difference is his edits show up in git.
You missed that they don't even get broken.
When the kernel API changes, you have a new operating system. It's 98% the same as the old one, but it's a new one. Might was well have a new name, but a new number will do.
The drivers will continue to work on the old one, which was no less free than the new one. If you want your hardware to work on the new one, you'll need to write drivers for it.
Which, really, is not at all hard once you've done ten or fifteen of them.
Except the converse is often true.
Just try helping on many open source projects.
You'll get the hand. They don't want help. They just want egoboo.
dd is so old it doesn't even use dashes on its options...
It's not the corn, per se. Corn is pretty good for you.
But this corn is fried, sugared, covered in salt and chemicals, then packaged in petroleum products.
It's like putting a slice of tomato on a Ring Ding and calling it a salad.
In theory, this is the much lesser choice for these CEOs.
You get a $24-million-a-year severance because you just screwed up a $140-million-a-year opportunity, kind of thing.
In theory. In reality, it's the only outcome some of them ever actually expected.
If you want an even more flaming-letters-50-feet-high example, look at Hector Ruiz at AMD. He ended up getting a $3 million bonus for selling their fabs off, turning a thriving semiconductor company into just another fabless design shop, and one with a rapidly shrinking customer base at that.
It is determined by the stockholders. The stockholders elect the board.
Of course, that system is pathetically easy to defraud by presenting candidates for the board who are easy for the shareholders to find nothing wrong with, and easier for the CEO to manipulate, or in cahoots with the CEO.
The problem is that 99% of stockholders are not "investors", but gamblers, putting their savings into a gambling game based on perception of corporate activity.
Total scam, really.
divest yourself of any stock the moment that Institutional Investors (ie Wall Street) gain control of the Board.
Um....just where do you think the company got the idea to sell stock in the first place?
It's a question of comprehensive change.
Once you start picking and choosing, you end up with something you can't justify in all cases, and the loopholes grow until those ship motors are being used in backyard generators.
I think you should inhale your sunscreen, and stick it to these...what was it? "tree huggers"?
And the sunsets! Those gorgeous, orange (*cough*) sunsets (*wheeze*).
The solution then is to ban all contact between teachers and students.
I think thinking wasn't the problem.
Um, think "bulk" and think how much "bulk" a material one atom thick has.
Now, if you stack the sheets it'll be like tearing a phone book.
But if it's one sheet, we're talking micronewtons to shred it.
unpaid overtime for the government.
If you didn't negotiate Level-of-Effort, you screwed yourself.
If you don't know how to make an old server look like a broken server, I'm not sure I'd pay you anything...
The GAO and CBO are supposed to be doing exactly that, but they're too busy trying to prove that SSA isn't a fucking Ponzi scheme right now.
Not unsurprisingly, exactly the same thing happens in purely private contracting.
There's a reason your CEO drives a Jag even though he produces no code.
Take your salary and bennies, and multiply by 1.6-2.5, and that's what any good salesman can sell your time and effort for.
Tell that to PATCO.
In the best of conditions, the bid spells out everything involved, and it's reasonable.
Then the bid includes mandatory profit levels for the contracting company.
That's cash. All of the administrative and productive costs are accounted for, and they just put a fat colored block on top and leave it there.
It's also the fact that the project itself is outsourced. When you only know a few of the requirements before letting the contract, and have no means of managing the project yourself down to the line level, you hire someone else to do it. Then you have no control over internal project management, though the government does typically send along some people to audit and observe.
Blame is a freebie they get after the fact when something goes tits-up after costing 3X what it was bid for.
What we need, then, is interpreted C++.
If there's a greener pasture, someone with resources similar to those possessed by the original javascript developers would be seeding it.
Now, knowing what we know about how fugly Javascript is, the question is: why hasn't anyone replaced it yet?
that'll keep the cat entertained for an hour