Well not that reasonable... Too many faces is a likely thing to happen in real life. There's just too much stray input for this to be a good idea to have a lockout on...
I remember when I worked at university, people were already on average not competent and not particularly passionate about changing that already.
Freshman courses are predominately that, sophomore level is barely better, but by Junior year most of the most egregious folks have moved on to something else.
Of course the.com bubble caused the soul crushing people who don't care to really dig in and try to power through to get to that sweet sweet paycheck. Maybe that's what you are seeing, the current tech bubble driving 'pot of gold' syndrome so the less enthusiastic don't get filtered out..
Can we dare hope that these disasters involving trained officers are a minority?
Though those events are tragic, the one solace is that they are relatively rare. Steps need to be taken to further mitigate the risk of such tragedies, but encouraging totally untrained or ill trained civilians would be exacerbating the problem rather than helping.
Note that we are not talking about people jumping out in the middle of a hurricane to help people. We are talking about folks puttering about in boats in flooded areas fetching people stranded in their homes. It's certainly more challenging boating than most of them are used to, but not crazy so much so that they are putting their lives in grave danger for the sake of attempting rescues.
Well for one, those in Houston were explicitly told 'don't evacuate', basically telling people by trying, they put themselves at risk of being stuck in their car on the road which is more dangerous than their house. In fact that is precisely what did happen in Texas before, more people died trying to evacuate than probably would have died by sitting in place.
Now one could easily say the answer would have been to do proper evacuation planning rather than giving up on evacuation altogether, but that's the government's failing and there's a lot of folks who were doing precisely what they were being told and for somewhat valid reasons.
Rescues *during* the storm are one thing in terms of risk, but by and large we are talking about post-storm rescues in the wake of the flooding. These activities were certainly challenging, contending with hazards and strong currents, but not particularly life threatening given the proper precautions all boaters should know.
Nothing so helpful as an untrained stranger coming into an unfamiliar situation holding a lethal weapon, pumped up on the excitement of justice and at any second likely to be startled out of their wits.
Think of the big headlines where someone unsure about a situation calls the police and an innocent person gets shot as part of a misunderstanding. Amplify that by a couple orders of magnitude and you have what crowd sourced police 'help' would look like.
On *average* they have better performance, but that's because Apple doesn't even offer low end handsets. If you compare 'flagship' devices, they are pretty even on at least performance and battery life. Sure, people have less sleek image of Android because they used a sub-200 dollar new handset, but there doesn't exist such an Apple device.
Similarly for maintenance and updates, there are devices that keep up, but the water is murkier to know which are which.
HP at least had a very visibly obvious explanation:
Hurd wanted desperately to expand the consumer space, Apotheker hated that concept with a passion, and wanted money to go piss away on getting scammed by Autonomy instead.
Whatever weird thing is going on with google's attention span isn't quite as blatantly obvious from the outside.
Probably not that interesting, Google took motorola, made them take out microsd cards, then sold them and they started putting sd card slots back in. Other than that google seemed to do jack to help or hurt motorola.
(Hint, there's a reason besides fanboism that Apple has 95% of the profits)
Well, the exaggeration aside, not *really*. As a hardware platform, the iPhone is not particularly far ahead (or far behind) than the solid Android handsets. One *could* make the argument that people like iOS software, but that's more subjective than objective featureset. And contrary to Apple touting benefits of owning the whole stack in terms of what's possible, it's generally hollow talk without substance. It can be argued that in key areas it's a simpler ecosystem and therefore they don't have to present as many choices, which may lead to less intimidating settings dialogs and such, but owning a hardware designer isn't going to help on that front unless they simultaneously ditched support for Samsung, LG, Motorola, Huawei, et al.
Google buying HTC outright will have another immediate effect - Samsung's profits. Unless Samsung takes a page out of the same book and creates their own OS dev team and branches Android into their own offering.
I don't understand this. Google owning Motorola didn't change the landscape significantly, and here I also don't see this changing, unless Google went insane and decided to shut out all the partners, extremely risking their majority market share for the sake of *maybe* somewhat better margins??
Yes, thankfully that experiment, much like the no-button trackpoint are well behind them. Just like hopefully Apple's experiment with a touch bar will also be behind them next gen.
If it doesn't have the word 'Think' on it, it's pretty cheap and generally not that good (same is true of basically all the 'consumer' product lines of the major brands)..
If it has the word 'Think' on it, it's *probably* a really good laptop, though some of them aren't so good. Sticking to X, T, or P laptops things are consistently pretty good.
Not automated, there's expense involved and less deterministic time to validate a build. Impractical to put in a 'continuous' flow, therefore not something that the penny pinching developers-rule-the-world companies are interested in.
Because UI developers are more interested in being 'artistic' than functional. Lightweight airy fonts with plenty of open area and avoiding 'harsh' contrasts appeals to artistic sensibilities, but is much harder to use.
One of the victims of the philosophy of 'automated test only', which is the management perversion of automated testing. Usability is not a test that can be automated, therefore it's not worth doing.
Lenovo isn't a root CA. In fact, superfish didn't have *lenovo* as a CA, it added Komodia's certificate, which was part of Superfish product (a california based company, incidentaly), which also is not a root CA, it installs a new CA certificate (with the private key in the clear).
Basically Lenovo didn't vet the software it was paid to install well enough, and a lazy California company picked up Komodia's technology, with each presuming the next was smarter then they were about security.
The challenge being there was that OpenOffice was already appropriately licensed to let the community take it, Oracle's IP strategy be damned.. Here the crux of the problem remains how it is licensed, and thus you need Oracle's participation to modify it, and Oracle is unlikely to play ball. It's just completely out of character for them, and it's hard to make a strong *business* case they can't deny (people saying 'it would help oracle linux', but it would help redhat linux just as much, so it'll be even handed.
At this point, it's probable that Oracle axed a critical amount of ZFS experience anyway, so they might not even be able to credibly claim to be the experts in it anymore.
I've dealt with a couple of chromebooks... It's a terrible experience with exceedingly flaky drivers. It feels like every participant in that ecosystem is phoning it in.
I don't like to think *that* is what people perceive as 'a linux desktop', since a real distro is so much nicer.
This seems likely to be in the margin of error for the wider data...
Nowadays it's more viable than ever to get by, what with things like Valve throwing some weight behind it, but it's still unavoidable to need Windows in too many places. But when I can get away with not using Windows, it is a pleasure.
To Intel, unit cost of a processor is exceedingly cheap. They however have massive operational expense to cover to get to that point. The price on top of that is still to a large extent the luxury of a vendor able to set their own margins, to some extent. Too high people won't upgrade, and if they get desperate enough go to AMD. On the desktop side, it no longer takes desperation to get people to not pay Intel because AMD is competitive in desktop. In the dual socket arena, Epyc has a lot of caveats to be the universal replacement for all Intel workloads, but it is compelling in some scenarios.
I'll give credit to their hardware too. A lot of users at the time were somewhat disappointed at their Ultra10s (which were SPARC, but with IDE drives and such).
The Ultra1, Ultra30 and Ultra60s were very highly regarded from a hardware standpoint, as well as the higher end server stuff.
Oracle dropping it seems more likely than changing licensing. Oracle will relicense any of it's IP over Ellison's dead body.
Either:
a) ZFS is a value add for Solaris and they enjoy that edge b) They stop caring about Solaris, but they *still* don't feel like bothering to revisit the license, because they don't get anything out of it that they would see as valuable.
Of course, essentially supporting an entire processor architecture by yourself is very high operational expense nowadays. And I suspect they are including some sort of revenue that is not strictly hardware, because that number is higher than the analysts say most other vendors make, but do not consider Oracle as having enough server revenue to track).
So assuming you aren't too crazy on volume (and I'm pretty sure they don't have much volume), 4 billion should leave a healthy amount of operational expense to make a respectable enough x86 type product in conjunction with the likes of Intel, AMI, Broadcom, et al, but not so much if you are rolling a lot of your own stuff as Oracle pretty much has to do to support SPARC.
Of course if they had, say 4 billion revenue on 40 million servers sold, well that would be a pretty extreme loss (100 dollars is not going to cover the material cost of a server).
retiring on a total savings of *maybe* half a million at best at age 30 or so (after taxes and at least some semblance of living expenses)? Yeah that isn't going to pan out...
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Well not that reasonable... Too many faces is a likely thing to happen in real life. There's just too much stray input for this to be a good idea to have a lockout on...
On average, I'll believe that, simply because the profession is more prolific.
The curse of a career path becoming more prolific is that only the most passionate would previously be in the field now has money seekers.
I remember when I worked at university, people were already on average not competent and not particularly passionate about changing that already.
Freshman courses are predominately that, sophomore level is barely better, but by Junior year most of the most egregious folks have moved on to something else.
Of course the .com bubble caused the soul crushing people who don't care to really dig in and try to power through to get to that sweet sweet paycheck. Maybe that's what you are seeing, the current tech bubble driving 'pot of gold' syndrome so the less enthusiastic don't get filtered out..
Can we dare hope that these disasters involving trained officers are a minority?
Though those events are tragic, the one solace is that they are relatively rare. Steps need to be taken to further mitigate the risk of such tragedies, but encouraging totally untrained or ill trained civilians would be exacerbating the problem rather than helping.
Note that we are not talking about people jumping out in the middle of a hurricane to help people. We are talking about folks puttering about in boats in flooded areas fetching people stranded in their homes. It's certainly more challenging boating than most of them are used to, but not crazy so much so that they are putting their lives in grave danger for the sake of attempting rescues.
Well for one, those in Houston were explicitly told 'don't evacuate', basically telling people by trying, they put themselves at risk of being stuck in their car on the road which is more dangerous than their house. In fact that is precisely what did happen in Texas before, more people died trying to evacuate than probably would have died by sitting in place.
Now one could easily say the answer would have been to do proper evacuation planning rather than giving up on evacuation altogether, but that's the government's failing and there's a lot of folks who were doing precisely what they were being told and for somewhat valid reasons.
Rescues *during* the storm are one thing in terms of risk, but by and large we are talking about post-storm rescues in the wake of the flooding. These activities were certainly challenging, contending with hazards and strong currents, but not particularly life threatening given the proper precautions all boaters should know.
Nothing so helpful as an untrained stranger coming into an unfamiliar situation holding a lethal weapon, pumped up on the excitement of justice and at any second likely to be startled out of their wits.
Think of the big headlines where someone unsure about a situation calls the police and an innocent person gets shot as part of a misunderstanding. Amplify that by a couple orders of magnitude and you have what crowd sourced police 'help' would look like.
But they haven't been...
On *average* they have better performance, but that's because Apple doesn't even offer low end handsets. If you compare 'flagship' devices, they are pretty even on at least performance and battery life. Sure, people have less sleek image of Android because they used a sub-200 dollar new handset, but there doesn't exist such an Apple device.
Similarly for maintenance and updates, there are devices that keep up, but the water is murkier to know which are which.
HP at least had a very visibly obvious explanation:
Hurd wanted desperately to expand the consumer space, Apotheker hated that concept with a passion, and wanted money to go piss away on getting scammed by Autonomy instead.
Whatever weird thing is going on with google's attention span isn't quite as blatantly obvious from the outside.
Probably not that interesting, Google took motorola, made them take out microsd cards, then sold them and they started putting sd card slots back in. Other than that google seemed to do jack to help or hurt motorola.
(Hint, there's a reason besides fanboism that Apple has 95% of the profits)
Well, the exaggeration aside, not *really*. As a hardware platform, the iPhone is not particularly far ahead (or far behind) than the solid Android handsets. One *could* make the argument that people like iOS software, but that's more subjective than objective featureset. And contrary to Apple touting benefits of owning the whole stack in terms of what's possible, it's generally hollow talk without substance. It can be argued that in key areas it's a simpler ecosystem and therefore they don't have to present as many choices, which may lead to less intimidating settings dialogs and such, but owning a hardware designer isn't going to help on that front unless they simultaneously ditched support for Samsung, LG, Motorola, Huawei, et al.
Google buying HTC outright will have another immediate effect - Samsung's profits. Unless Samsung takes a page out of the same book and creates their own OS dev team and branches Android into their own offering.
I don't understand this. Google owning Motorola didn't change the landscape significantly, and here I also don't see this changing, unless Google went insane and decided to shut out all the partners, extremely risking their majority market share for the sake of *maybe* somewhat better margins??
Yes, thankfully that experiment, much like the no-button trackpoint are well behind them. Just like hopefully Apple's experiment with a touch bar will also be behind them next gen.
It depends.
If it doesn't have the word 'Think' on it, it's pretty cheap and generally not that good (same is true of basically all the 'consumer' product lines of the major brands)..
If it has the word 'Think' on it, it's *probably* a really good laptop, though some of them aren't so good. Sticking to X, T, or P laptops things are consistently pretty good.
Not automated, there's expense involved and less deterministic time to validate a build. Impractical to put in a 'continuous' flow, therefore not something that the penny pinching developers-rule-the-world companies are interested in.
Because UI developers are more interested in being 'artistic' than functional. Lightweight airy fonts with plenty of open area and avoiding 'harsh' contrasts appeals to artistic sensibilities, but is much harder to use.
One of the victims of the philosophy of 'automated test only', which is the management perversion of automated testing. Usability is not a test that can be automated, therefore it's not worth doing.
Lenovo isn't a root CA. In fact, superfish didn't have *lenovo* as a CA, it added Komodia's certificate, which was part of Superfish product (a california based company, incidentaly), which also is not a root CA, it installs a new CA certificate (with the private key in the clear).
Basically Lenovo didn't vet the software it was paid to install well enough, and a lazy California company picked up Komodia's technology, with each presuming the next was smarter then they were about security.
The challenge being there was that OpenOffice was already appropriately licensed to let the community take it, Oracle's IP strategy be damned.. Here the crux of the problem remains how it is licensed, and thus you need Oracle's participation to modify it, and Oracle is unlikely to play ball. It's just completely out of character for them, and it's hard to make a strong *business* case they can't deny (people saying 'it would help oracle linux', but it would help redhat linux just as much, so it'll be even handed.
At this point, it's probable that Oracle axed a critical amount of ZFS experience anyway, so they might not even be able to credibly claim to be the experts in it anymore.
I've dealt with a couple of chromebooks... It's a terrible experience with exceedingly flaky drivers. It feels like every participant in that ecosystem is phoning it in.
I don't like to think *that* is what people perceive as 'a linux desktop', since a real distro is so much nicer.
This seems likely to be in the margin of error for the wider data...
Nowadays it's more viable than ever to get by, what with things like Valve throwing some weight behind it, but it's still unavoidable to need Windows in too many places. But when I can get away with not using Windows, it is a pleasure.
There's cost and price.
To Intel, unit cost of a processor is exceedingly cheap. They however have massive operational expense to cover to get to that point. The price on top of that is still to a large extent the luxury of a vendor able to set their own margins, to some extent. Too high people won't upgrade, and if they get desperate enough go to AMD. On the desktop side, it no longer takes desperation to get people to not pay Intel because AMD is competitive in desktop. In the dual socket arena, Epyc has a lot of caveats to be the universal replacement for all Intel workloads, but it is compelling in some scenarios.
I'll give credit to their hardware too. A lot of users at the time were somewhat disappointed at their Ultra10s (which were SPARC, but with IDE drives and such).
The Ultra1, Ultra30 and Ultra60s were very highly regarded from a hardware standpoint, as well as the higher end server stuff.
Oracle dropping it seems more likely than changing licensing. Oracle will relicense any of it's IP over Ellison's dead body.
Either:
a) ZFS is a value add for Solaris and they enjoy that edge
b) They stop caring about Solaris, but they *still* don't feel like bothering to revisit the license, because they don't get anything out of it that they would see as valuable.
Of course, essentially supporting an entire processor architecture by yourself is very high operational expense nowadays. And I suspect they are including some sort of revenue that is not strictly hardware, because that number is higher than the analysts say most other vendors make, but do not consider Oracle as having enough server revenue to track).
So assuming you aren't too crazy on volume (and I'm pretty sure they don't have much volume), 4 billion should leave a healthy amount of operational expense to make a respectable enough x86 type product in conjunction with the likes of Intel, AMI, Broadcom, et al, but not so much if you are rolling a lot of your own stuff as Oracle pretty much has to do to support SPARC.
Of course if they had, say 4 billion revenue on 40 million servers sold, well that would be a pretty extreme loss (100 dollars is not going to cover the material cost of a server).
retiring on a total savings of *maybe* half a million at best at age 30 or so (after taxes and at least some semblance of living expenses)? Yeah that isn't going to pan out...