As I read the article, it says that OpenStep's support for Hyper-V is broken or incomplete, leading to its removal from of Hyper-V support from the OpenStep codebase. The summary here could be read either as Microsoft support for OpenStep is broken, or Microsoft support for its own Hyper-V product is broken, neither of which appears to be the case.
In other words, OpenStep users haven't adopted Hyper-V widely or spent a lot of time working on the OpenStep code, and so that part of the tree has fallen into disrepair and it's being removed as not having sufficient interest.
That's my guess...perhaps someone with more knowledge could clarify?
“Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code from the Essex tree, “ he wrote.
In reply, Ken Pepple, director of cloud development at Internap Network Services, wrote: “”Hyper-V support is missing support for even the most basic functions – volumes, Glance, several network managers, etc. We investigated it for our service, but found it only borderline functional.”
55.4% hydro in Oregon. This is down from 73.6% in 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration. The slack has been taken up by everybody's favorite fossil fuel, gas, at 17.6% in 2010, now at 28.4%.
Everyone's favorite fossil fuel is oil (and from it, gasoline). We don't burn oil or gasoline for electricity generation.
We do however use a lot of natural gas, which does not come from fossils.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense.As long as they have a fat pipe to the internet, who cares where the datacenter is.
People on the other end of it. A "fat pipe" is only one half of the network speed equation - bandwidth. The other half is latency. Until/unless someone figures a way to overcome the speed of light, a datacenter in Oregon is always going to be faster for North American users than one in Africa.
That's why content distribution networks like Akamai serve you content from a DC nearest you - to reduce latency.
Funny you never hear about Democrats being asked by a musician to stop using their music.
Chrissy Hynde sued Rush Limbaugh to stop using "My City Was Gone" as his show theme. Then when she won, she offered to license it to him and donated the money to PETA.
So now you've been given two counter-examples. Funny, you never hear Slashdot student posters admit they were wrong...
Hardware compared to, say, 1970? Mammoth progress. Room-sized state of the art then is dwarfed by a low-end laptopnow.
Software compared to, say, 1970? We've moved a little, but really it isn't all that much different. Things are more GUI, some fads have come and gone, but as Robert Martin puts it, it's still just sequence, selection, and iteration.
Let's look this up. 7 years ago #1 on the Top500 was an IBM BlueGene/L at 70 TFLOPS. I can't see that performance anywhere close on the desktop or even on the notebook market.
The live tiles. I have some complaints about how the tiles handle group contact alerts but I really appreciate their economy. Put the phone down for an hour and one glance at the start screen can give you 6 new data insights. For me it's normally: new work email, new personal email, new missed calls, new responses to Twitter or Facebook posts, new status updates from my family, upcoming calendar appointments. Also, the ability to deep link live tiles is great as well.
Yes, this is what I liked as well. The iPhone "sea of icons" is not as nice as tiles that actually do stuff, display information, etc. WP7 is a denser, more power-user-friendly UI.
Oddly enough, I know several WP7 people who love their phones and would not trade them for iPhone/Android competitors. I am forced to admit that their phones are very nice.
Me? No. I own too many iOS apps and the switchover is too much headache. Microsoft, you came too late.
There are two Targets near me, and I live in a major US suburban area. Outside either, cell phone reception (Verizon) is excellent. Ten feet inside the store, it drops to one bar and by the time you get very much further, it's NO SERVICE. It is generally impossible to call out or in to a cell phone in Target, or even to send SMS. It has been that way for at least three years, and my wife (who's lived in this part of town longer) says it's been that way as long as she can remember. Other friends say the same thing.
I'm sure Target doesn't have cell phone jammers installed - that would be illegal. But I wonder if they've designed their buildings to be cell-signal-unfriendly? I can imagine it has all sorts of benefits - employees can't covertly text while on duty, and shoppers can't price-compare on the Internet.
I have no proof...just my anecdotal experience.
There is a large Wal-mart supercenter near us, and my Verizon cell works fine throughout, only losing a bar or two in the middle of the store, which is several times the size of Target.
Just lookup the item # online and call ahead to the store. If they have it ask them to hold onto it upfront and head over. If they don't, find another location/store.
This is noble, but I doubt most consumers would do that. By the time they call around to 2-3 or three stores, drive there, stand in line, etc. they could have ordered from Amazon. Granted, if it's December 24th or something they really want immediately, they'll put up with this, but normally? No.
What Target, etc. seem to have missed is that shopping at their stores sucks. It's a generally unpleasant experience from entrance through to exit.
You have a long career ahead of you as a tech sector executive.
(shrug) Whatever - it really is the answer. One Siri-enabled device takes X CPU power, X bandwidth, etc. There is some internal database scaling, but I doubt the Siri database is huge. Most likely, they have a bajillion x86-class boxes each with a full copy of the database. Every X many Siri devices requires Y many servers.
Somewhere, there's a monitor that reports overall usage. As they get towards the redline, they add more. This kind of scaling is very easy. If they had to present a single consistent copy of data (e.g., credit card processing or something), it would be a lot more difficult.
Ya because Americans being able to get decently priced drugs, is such a crime.
I agree on this, but as I recall, a lot of these shady "pharmacies" were selling unlimited quantities oxycontin and xanax to anyone who said "I have a toothache" or "I'm a little stressed" for grossly inflated prices. In other words, drug dealing.
It's like giving your home keys to robbers.
And then you wonder "how it came out!"
People think we call the Chinese and say "can you lend us $100 billion this week?
That's not how it works. It's an open auction, and the Chinese are as free to bid and buy as anyone, or they can buy it on the secondary market. As it is, they own about 8% of US-issued debt.
The ownership entitles them to one thing: repayment of the debt with interest. That's it.
"Oh, but if China ever dumped all their debt..." So what? Simple economics...supply rises, price falls (in this case, the interest rate would go up a half-point and other people would buy).
"Oh, but if China ever stopped buying our debt..." Same thing. Demand would fall, price falls. Government pays a little more interest and other people buy.
If you're using HTTPS, connection is secured before the GET/whatever is actually sent - so if you're using SSL they can only know which site you're connecting to and not what your requesting..
Imagine that, a world where MITM attacks suddenly become much much harder, where your ISP doesn't inject ads in your search results, where your mobile provider cannot "help" you screwing up your HTTP connections with a transparent proxy, where the British government cannot censor a Wikipedia page, where even the small sites can be encrypted because web hosts save bandwidth money by offering this option to everyone.
This is very interesting, but I wonder...wouldn't it still be possible for some MITM attacks if one's goal was to block content based on URL? If I'm $BIG_GOVERNMENT/$BIG_ISP and on one side is the Wikipedia page you want to see and the other side is your request for that URL, why can't I change what you see? In other words, can't I map the URLs you want to whatever I want and say that every request for http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Topic_I_Hate will be redirected to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Topic_I_Like? Or simply blocked?
First of all, if Apple does any R&D, I'm fully unaware of it.
Apparently, such fullsome unawareness is a willful choice on your part, because R&D is a line item in public companies' income statements. Looks like Apple spent $758 million last quarter. If that's typical, then that's about $3 billion a year.
No. There is no specific standard. The purpose of law is not to make rules but rather to create interpretation opportunities that enrich attorneys through litigation.
Google SketchUp is a hugely useful, free 3D modeling program. It has become the de facto standard in lots of hobbies (such as woodworking) because it's free, works well, and now there's a bajillion community add-ons.
The problem is that it's Windows/Mac desktop software. It's completely orthogonal to Google's strategy. There's no ad revenue, and while there is a paid-for commercial version, I can't imagine it's big bucks for Google. The commercial version is $500, and at that price there's plenty of competition from other commercial packages.
I'm sure someone in the headier days of Google saw it and thought "wow, this is cool, let's buy it!" and so they did. But what really is the strategy/purpose of owning it? It's great software, no doubt, but I think Google would be hard-pressed to explain how it moves their company forward.
And so I fear for Google SketchUp. The free version is so awesome and I use it extensively...and I suspect some day someone in Google is going to discard it as carelessly as they bought it.
Let me expand that to say that anytime you are building something that ultimately relies on a 3rd party for integral, non-easily-replicatable components, you're asking for trouble
I think you're stretching that a bit. The vast majority of the world's IT does exactly this. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Hitachi, EMC, Cisco, etc. all provide "integral, non-easily-reproducable" components.
The difference is that if you buy physical hardware and own the software (often with a source code escrow agreement), you can control the pace of getting off something, whereas in the cloud, you cannot.
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As I read the article, it says that OpenStep's support for Hyper-V is broken or incomplete, leading to its removal from of Hyper-V support from the OpenStep codebase. The summary here could be read either as Microsoft support for OpenStep is broken, or Microsoft support for its own Hyper-V product is broken, neither of which appears to be the case.
In other words, OpenStep users haven't adopted Hyper-V widely or spent a lot of time working on the OpenStep code, and so that part of the tree has fallen into disrepair and it's being removed as not having sufficient interest.
That's my guess...perhaps someone with more knowledge could clarify?
“Just as Nova enters feature freeze, it sounds like a good moment to consider removing deprecated, known-buggy-and-unmaintained or useless feature code from the Essex tree, “ he wrote.
In reply, Ken Pepple, director of cloud development at Internap Network Services, wrote: “”Hyper-V support is missing support for even the most basic functions – volumes, Glance, several network managers, etc. We investigated it for our service, but found it only borderline functional.”
If Google does not have operations in a particular country, why should they care about that country's censorship laws?
Good point, but it's still quite a lot of countries to care about.
Now you have to deal with quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley controls.
Blacklisting doesn't work because the next version of the standard, such as Unicode 6.1, may introduce more undesirable character ranges.
That would lead to the Slashdot "editors" having to maintain their code, and we can't have that.
55.4% hydro in Oregon. This is down from 73.6% in 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration. The slack has been taken up by everybody's favorite fossil fuel, gas, at 17.6% in 2010, now at 28.4%.
Everyone's favorite fossil fuel is oil (and from it, gasoline). We don't burn oil or gasoline for electricity generation.
We do however use a lot of natural gas, which does not come from fossils.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense.As long as they have a fat pipe to the internet, who cares where the datacenter is.
People on the other end of it. A "fat pipe" is only one half of the network speed equation - bandwidth. The other half is latency. Until/unless someone figures a way to overcome the speed of light, a datacenter in Oregon is always going to be faster for North American users than one in Africa.
That's why content distribution networks like Akamai serve you content from a DC nearest you - to reduce latency.
Funny you never hear about Democrats being asked by a musician to stop using their music.
Chrissy Hynde sued Rush Limbaugh to stop using "My City Was Gone" as his show theme. Then when she won, she offered to license it to him and donated the money to PETA.
So now you've been given two counter-examples. Funny, you never hear Slashdot student posters admit they were wrong...
Hardware compared to, say, 1970? Mammoth progress. Room-sized state of the art then is dwarfed by a low-end laptopnow.
Software compared to, say, 1970? We've moved a little, but really it isn't all that much different. Things are more GUI, some fads have come and gone, but as Robert Martin puts it, it's still just sequence, selection, and iteration.
Let's look this up. 7 years ago #1 on the Top500 was an IBM BlueGene/L at 70 TFLOPS. I can't see that performance anywhere close on the desktop or even on the notebook market.
Whoosh...
The live tiles. I have some complaints about how the tiles handle group contact alerts but I really appreciate their economy. Put the phone down for an hour and one glance at the start screen can give you 6 new data insights. For me it's normally: new work email, new personal email, new missed calls, new responses to Twitter or Facebook posts, new status updates from my family, upcoming calendar appointments. Also, the ability to deep link live tiles is great as well.
Yes, this is what I liked as well. The iPhone "sea of icons" is not as nice as tiles that actually do stuff, display information, etc. WP7 is a denser, more power-user-friendly UI.
Oddly enough, I know several WP7 people who love their phones and would not trade them for iPhone/Android competitors. I am forced to admit that their phones are very nice.
Me? No. I own too many iOS apps and the switchover is too much headache. Microsoft, you came too late.
There are two Targets near me, and I live in a major US suburban area. Outside either, cell phone reception (Verizon) is excellent. Ten feet inside the store, it drops to one bar and by the time you get very much further, it's NO SERVICE. It is generally impossible to call out or in to a cell phone in Target, or even to send SMS. It has been that way for at least three years, and my wife (who's lived in this part of town longer) says it's been that way as long as she can remember. Other friends say the same thing.
I'm sure Target doesn't have cell phone jammers installed - that would be illegal. But I wonder if they've designed their buildings to be cell-signal-unfriendly? I can imagine it has all sorts of benefits - employees can't covertly text while on duty, and shoppers can't price-compare on the Internet.
I have no proof...just my anecdotal experience.
There is a large Wal-mart supercenter near us, and my Verizon cell works fine throughout, only losing a bar or two in the middle of the store, which is several times the size of Target.
Just lookup the item # online and call ahead to the store. If they have it ask them to hold onto it upfront and head over. If they don't, find another location/store.
This is noble, but I doubt most consumers would do that. By the time they call around to 2-3 or three stores, drive there, stand in line, etc. they could have ordered from Amazon. Granted, if it's December 24th or something they really want immediately, they'll put up with this, but normally? No.
What Target, etc. seem to have missed is that shopping at their stores sucks. It's a generally unpleasant experience from entrance through to exit.
You have a long career ahead of you as a tech sector executive.
(shrug) Whatever - it really is the answer. One Siri-enabled device takes X CPU power, X bandwidth, etc. There is some internal database scaling, but I doubt the Siri database is huge. Most likely, they have a bajillion x86-class boxes each with a full copy of the database. Every X many Siri devices requires Y many servers.
Somewhere, there's a monitor that reports overall usage. As they get towards the redline, they add more. This kind of scaling is very easy. If they had to present a single consistent copy of data (e.g., credit card processing or something), it would be a lot more difficult.
Sure there is - buy more servers and bandwidth.
Ya because Americans being able to get decently priced drugs, is such a crime.
I agree on this, but as I recall, a lot of these shady "pharmacies" were selling unlimited quantities oxycontin and xanax to anyone who said "I have a toothache" or "I'm a little stressed" for grossly inflated prices. In other words, drug dealing.
That's when the American business school ethic takes over. No right or wrong, legal or illegal, no such thing as pride in workmanship or quality;
I can think of endless private companies that could be described the same. Heck, just look at your local strip club.
It's like giving your home keys to robbers. And then you wonder "how it came out!"
People think we call the Chinese and say "can you lend us $100 billion this week?
That's not how it works. It's an open auction, and the Chinese are as free to bid and buy as anyone, or they can buy it on the secondary market. As it is, they own about 8% of US-issued debt.
The ownership entitles them to one thing: repayment of the debt with interest. That's it.
"Oh, but if China ever dumped all their debt..." So what? Simple economics...supply rises, price falls (in this case, the interest rate would go up a half-point and other people would buy).
"Oh, but if China ever stopped buying our debt..." Same thing. Demand would fall, price falls. Government pays a little more interest and other people buy.
If you're using HTTPS, connection is secured before the GET /whatever is actually sent - so if you're using SSL they can only know which site you're connecting to and not what your requesting..
Thank you - that's the part I was missing.
...so why bother reading it? All the good books are by Packt, right?
Imagine that, a world where MITM attacks suddenly become much much harder, where your ISP doesn't inject ads in your search results, where your mobile provider cannot "help" you screwing up your HTTP connections with a transparent proxy, where the British government cannot censor a Wikipedia page, where even the small sites can be encrypted because web hosts save bandwidth money by offering this option to everyone.
This is very interesting, but I wonder...wouldn't it still be possible for some MITM attacks if one's goal was to block content based on URL? If I'm $BIG_GOVERNMENT/$BIG_ISP and on one side is the Wikipedia page you want to see and the other side is your request for that URL, why can't I change what you see? In other words, can't I map the URLs you want to whatever I want and say that every request for http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Topic_I_Hate will be redirected to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Topic_I_Like? Or simply blocked?
I may be misunderstanding.
First of all, if Apple does any R&D, I'm fully unaware of it.
Apparently, such fullsome unawareness is a willful choice on your part, because R&D is a line item in public companies' income statements. Looks like Apple spent $758 million last quarter. If that's typical, then that's about $3 billion a year.
I guess you're fully aware now.
Isn't fair use under 30 seconds?
No. There is no specific standard. The purpose of law is not to make rules but rather to create interpretation opportunities that enrich attorneys through litigation.
Twitter has a much higher single to noise ratio.
That's true - married people don't have time for it.
Google SketchUp is a hugely useful, free 3D modeling program. It has become the de facto standard in lots of hobbies (such as woodworking) because it's free, works well, and now there's a bajillion community add-ons.
The problem is that it's Windows/Mac desktop software. It's completely orthogonal to Google's strategy. There's no ad revenue, and while there is a paid-for commercial version, I can't imagine it's big bucks for Google. The commercial version is $500, and at that price there's plenty of competition from other commercial packages.
I'm sure someone in the headier days of Google saw it and thought "wow, this is cool, let's buy it!" and so they did. But what really is the strategy/purpose of owning it? It's great software, no doubt, but I think Google would be hard-pressed to explain how it moves their company forward.
And so I fear for Google SketchUp. The free version is so awesome and I use it extensively...and I suspect some day someone in Google is going to discard it as carelessly as they bought it.
Let me expand that to say that anytime you are building something that ultimately relies on a 3rd party for integral, non-easily-replicatable components, you're asking for trouble
I think you're stretching that a bit. The vast majority of the world's IT does exactly this. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Hitachi, EMC, Cisco, etc. all provide "integral, non-easily-reproducable" components.
The difference is that if you buy physical hardware and own the software (often with a source code escrow agreement), you can control the pace of getting off something, whereas in the cloud, you cannot.