That's all fine and dandy as long as you provide access to the source, even if that's a link to another provider's version of the source. This implies literally 0 changes to the source, and of course the source linkage must be included in the body of the distribution to my understanding.
- Universally Ubiquitous - Nationalized - Lowest Common Denominator - (for POTS anyway) Pretty damn rock solid in most of the world
Did Facebook kill Email? No. Did Google kill the address bar? No. Did Apple kill the PC? No. Did solar panels (insert any other energy technology) kill the grid? No. Will Facebook messenger (or any company-centric IM system) kill telephones? No.
Well, open hardware is pretty crippled. When you consider patents, almost across the board hardware innovation patents are a non-started for a small-ish open hardware company trying to cook their own gear. If you're successful enough, someone will sue you into the ground. Software on the other hand can be served from countries which don't have software patents and still get downloaded everywhere. Would x264/ffmpeg exist today if purely developed under US laws? Probably not, but who's to say...
Its hard to shut down an individual sending a scrap of code over the web vs. a small hardware shop shipping their devices through the mail. If anywhere 'open' hardware flourishes, it'll be China which has historically been more or less indifferent of patents in general.
I'd say a good deal of their speaking users shed out of the ecosystem years ago when then adopted the 3 abortion, but that's just my opinion IMHO. I just dropped into the thread for morbid curiosity. But hell, if its better for their existing users then Kudos?
Not to forget the abhorrent performance loss of adding at least a round trip per row. If you're running a typical poorly performing CRUD app, that gets multiplied for every item in a batch of insert/update's that you'd like to process. Assuming the data was guaranteed to be identical, it was faster to delete all / insert all vs. the alternative which would be manually verifying each row's existence sequentially. This certainly speeds up a lot of natural key table interactions.
"the metric doesn't measure deployed instances, or usage, or even active interest", Yes nobody publishes this, so why are you so shocked that this study doesn't? Wouldn't you be more shocked and tin foil if someone actually was measuring backoffice service usage universally?
Your second paragraph is rank with hyperbole without any quantifiable links for verification, so... At least the article source actually tells us their methodology instead of just spewing crap assumptions.
Not my history. They're damn expensive, but they're a great DB. Its hard to objectively deny either assertion. The only piece of Oracle which is complete and utter horse sh** is in tweaking and to a lesser extent management of environments. Last I worked with them, they really needed well trained DBA's with access to Oracle's support site in order to really make the DB sing. Any jack and Jill dev working with MySQL / PostgresSQL could tune it -well enough- for the DB's inherent capabilities to shine.
"That's absurd. First, there will always be DRM-free games. People like me will not buy them. I don't care if I have to wait 5 years before I play a game, selling my soul, privacy, control of my computer, and all the other hassles of DRM is not worth it. Eventually software companies will realize that they're losing out on people like me and our money, and eventually they'll come around."
I don't care specifically about the issue anymore as I haven't pirated a game in well over a decade, but you're absolutely deluded if publishers will ever care about anti-DRM absolutists. If anything, the group has shrunk proportionately with the PC gaming audience as a whole. If anything, the PC world has moved largely to online linked services even more than consoles (possibly to stem cracks). Many developers may want to sell DRM free PC games, but instead sell it to consoles where the cracks are far less likely and revenues far higher. There are certainly many DRM-free dev's out there, but they generally aren't respected or honoured for their choices. I will give a nod to http://rimworldgame.com/ as its a pretty fun builder game. If you're looking for something DRM free, you may want to consider it.
Then you got hosed. I paid like $500 each for 2 27" pro series Dells a few years ago. They're amazingly clear for all of my uses (and I'm pretty picky about visuals). I don't know what speciality niche industry you could possibly need such an expensive monitor for, but I'm guessing that instead you paid 'that' company a lot of tax for the privilege of having a grey monitor with a fruit on it.
I started at a new company which included a stock Ubuntu (I came from Fedora previously). I hate their stock UI so I switched to Xubuntu.
1. Lots of configuration necessary since -my- XFCE looks more akin to Gnome 2 (My axe to grind but I'd love to have XFCE pre-canned layouts with the ability to save customized layouts afterwards through a GUI) 2. The graphical package manager worked maybe 60% of the time, so I immediately abandoned it and went to apt-get 3. I regularly get 'this and that' crashed errors even though nothing seems broken.. very strange. My ps list has a million copies of "indicator-bluetooth-service", "indicator-sound-service" so I'm assuming indicators has issues (see below) 4. There's no elegant way of telling the desktop to inherit screen orientation changes to the login screen. You can copy a cfg file over, but that's garbage. Include a prompt or have some sort of backend sudo for 'blessed' users 5. NV Graphics / Audio / All hardware worked out of the box and great! 0 complaints. 6. The whole 'indicators' thing between Ubuntu's skin and XFCE is functional, but a little ham fisted. I guess I should be happy that there's a widget for them at all but I'd wish someone put some more love into it.
All in all, things are certainly moving in the right direction, and a big thanks to everyone who contributes regularly in making my workhorse better and better!
Windows 'OS' has had little new to give enterprises for a long time (For at least a decade). Why do you see basically all new enterprise offerings going multi-platform and open web / XML standards? The only enterprise areas Microsoft is dominating are Office / Exchange / SharePoint / SqlServer (though largely used by other MS products) / AD (though this seems more a dodo waiting for obsolescence).
Outsourcing can and does produce as good if not better software. The problem is that unless you're very familiar with said outsourcing organization, you're essentially rolling the dice between horrible results and amazing results per dollar spent. If this sounds exactly like hiring an any regular employee, then you're exactly right. All HR related work needs to be adjudicated properly or you're risking your business viability. Given that giant American mega-corps haven't fallen into ruin, it seems like they're doing an ok job ramping up outsourcing work without significantly damaging their profitability -yet-.
1. Most developers work at companies that don't give a fuck about computers, developers, releases, etc.. They just want to make money, and IT is a cost. 2. A large number of developers feel that their work is important and that they're unique butterflies (and when you leave your company everything's just going to fall off the wheels and go to hell). Most of them are wrong. 3. We've had a great run for the last several decades, but we aren't guaranteed to be high-tier job prospects forever. I'd be miserable being a hardware engineer these days, since so much of it has been fleeing to China for the last 10 years or so (at least the low ended work).. Software from what I've seen has mostly weathered the storm, but it certainly isn't immune to becoming *shock* commoditized like so many industries before it. That doesn't see the end of the industry, but certainly an adjustment.
Its true that Oracle should certainly notify about bad / old versions of Java, but sadly there are cases like:
1. Third party tools bundle Java in their own installations (Should Oracle notify / ignore / etc?)
2. Old versions may be necessary for some legacy coding requirements (We're currently stuck with 1.6 due to a third party middleware that dropped support for our use case and haven't had enough time to iron out the migration path)
3. Along with #2, some JavaWebStart based apps (if anyone actually uses this anymore) can be specifically flagged for an older generation JVM's. I'm not sure what the best bet is for Oracle in these cases.
I'd say the notification of any outstanding legacy JVM's is the best case and ideally (though much harder) identifying which applications are actually still depending on these legacy versions.
Why all the hostility? They rent at market rates for single family use as is (which is likely unfurnished). Its very possible that they're only legally allowed to rent in that way: 1. Government subsided housing 2. Limited Accessibility (Hosuing Coops) 3. Occupant Security / Strata restrictions (Appartments/Condos)
Ultimately, its a boring old contract law problem, you either have the right to sublet, or you don't. If there are restrictions on sublets, the landlord can evict / negotiate whatever share they see fit (say 100%). If (and in all likelihood you don't) have rights to sublet without impunity, the landlord can't and shouldn't have the right to 'double dip' as you perceive it.
And before you jump down the throat of option 2 being impossible/impractical, ask yourself how Airports/Airplanes talk to one another... and then do some research.
Is there proof that large companies are intrinsically less efficient than small nimble companies (when scaled up to large company size)? I -feel- like large ugly mega-corps certainly are wasteful, but ultimately leverage more overall efficiency than N small players. The small player scenario only plays out if they're in direct competition from one another instead. Take two examples:
Telco Megacorp is broken up for some reason (Anti-competitive, etc..). 1. You can break up based on geography which is by far the simplest option. 2. You could break up between retail / infrastructure (possibly a not for profit on the infrastructure side), allowing for any number of retailers to market the same components of the infrastructure build-out. The infrastructure side leases service universally to all qualified retailers and simply worries about maintaining service and expanding coverage. 3. You could also break it up requiring mandatory build-outs for competing lines, but that's so expensive, I couldn't see that ever happening (unless the break-up was due to seriously neglected infrastructure).
With #1, each individual carrier essentially does what momma-corp did. We see this today with the baby bells. Are the babies more functional than their parent was? Probably not. The reason why these guys remain as bad as ever is that they lack any sort of competitive drive to retain good customer relations, etc.. ultimately, quality is poorly linked with customer retention. #2 is the opposite. With the same sunk costs in infrastructure and basically no friction from changing retailers, the retailers are constantly fighting over customer loyalty / price. #3 would also be ok but not ideal, since there's still legitimate competition in the marketplace, but it would require a lot of double deployments. Switching between retailers also requires new build-outs.
"I purchased brand new from Amazon and used to have active on a Comcast account in another state" We if it was activated in a prior state, it wasn't brand new, so I'm not sure where you're with in your synopsis.
As the maintainer of a huge ugly telco provisioning system in a past life, this surely is a use case worth of concern. Unless the system was specifically coded into the provisioning system to support device de-authorization, then they would have a problem dealing with your case. My original few cable modems were granted as a rental and were never offered for ownership. One was offered to sell (avoid the rental costs) but never actually belonged to me for 'valid' transfer. I have Cat5 to my appartment these days, so who knows what they do now. The most obvious but retarded problem would come in if they tied the customer's first provisioned device's MAC with the service provided to the customer. In that case, the only way they could de-authorize the device would be by stopping service with the old customer's (upgraded modem) service.
Read the modem terms of use. If you're actually leasing the device, its very possible that they aren't transferable period (we're talking about one's terms of service, not the physical hunk of metal/plastic here) so buyer beware. If the device is transferable, you may still run into issues with the broken provisioning system listed above. In those cases, the telco should've swapped out yours with a valid one if they have any sort of customer service backbone (which is arguable).
The same with cars! Fuck-em. Anyone who cares to drive an illegal car can just fake the legitimacy, so we may as well trash the highway safety commission along with it. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars if you ask me.
Yes, you clearly assume all people who do wrong are criminal masterminds, and not a couple pot smoking burnouts on a journey to enrich their depressing lives by doing stupid things.
Well, I have no axe to grind, but the linked news issue was users downloading untrusted third party software from unbeknownst vendors and expecting what exactly? So yeah, worm, rootkits, etc. Galore. If you leave the rails, there's a lot of great things to be had, and a lot of risks. Doing so should certainly be done by the trained / brave and not by a clueless user wanting to install the newest Angry Birds a few minutes faster than through official channels.
Lets connect the dots. Child is arrested with no legitimate charge. Police release him. If there was a crime to be sued over dad/kid will probably will, and if its frivolous then probably not
I don't see how your subjective hyperbole / speculation will change the facts of the matter. Instead, you'll play up on people's inherent group biases to sow resentment in those 'other people'.
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Loss of wages adds up big time when you're working in high earning industries. Hit a lawyer? Count the millions flowing out of your pockets..
That's all fine and dandy as long as you provide access to the source, even if that's a link to another provider's version of the source. This implies literally 0 changes to the source, and of course the source linkage must be included in the body of the distribution to my understanding.
Dice dice dice dice dice.. oh and add some dice.
- Universally Ubiquitous
- Nationalized
- Lowest Common Denominator
- (for POTS anyway) Pretty damn rock solid in most of the world
Did Facebook kill Email? No.
Did Google kill the address bar? No.
Did Apple kill the PC? No.
Did solar panels (insert any other energy technology) kill the grid? No.
Will Facebook messenger (or any company-centric IM system) kill telephones? No.
Next flamebait topic please.
Hmm, New York or literally the entire world (minus New York)... that's a hard one...
Well, open hardware is pretty crippled. When you consider patents, almost across the board hardware innovation patents are a non-started for a small-ish open hardware company trying to cook their own gear. If you're successful enough, someone will sue you into the ground. Software on the other hand can be served from countries which don't have software patents and still get downloaded everywhere. Would x264/ffmpeg exist today if purely developed under US laws? Probably not, but who's to say...
Its hard to shut down an individual sending a scrap of code over the web vs. a small hardware shop shipping their devices through the mail. If anywhere 'open' hardware flourishes, it'll be China which has historically been more or less indifferent of patents in general.
I'd say a good deal of their speaking users shed out of the ecosystem years ago when then adopted the 3 abortion, but that's just my opinion IMHO. I just dropped into the thread for morbid curiosity. But hell, if its better for their existing users then Kudos?
Not to forget the abhorrent performance loss of adding at least a round trip per row. If you're running a typical poorly performing CRUD app, that gets multiplied for every item in a batch of insert/update's that you'd like to process. Assuming the data was guaranteed to be identical, it was faster to delete all / insert all vs. the alternative which would be manually verifying each row's existence sequentially. This certainly speeds up a lot of natural key table interactions.
"the metric doesn't measure deployed instances, or usage, or even active interest", Yes nobody publishes this, so why are you so shocked that this study doesn't? Wouldn't you be more shocked and tin foil if someone actually was measuring backoffice service usage universally?
Your second paragraph is rank with hyperbole without any quantifiable links for verification, so... At least the article source actually tells us their methodology instead of just spewing crap assumptions.
This is how you could have quantified results:
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Not my history. They're damn expensive, but they're a great DB. Its hard to objectively deny either assertion. The only piece of Oracle which is complete and utter horse sh** is in tweaking and to a lesser extent management of environments. Last I worked with them, they really needed well trained DBA's with access to Oracle's support site in order to really make the DB sing. Any jack and Jill dev working with MySQL / PostgresSQL could tune it -well enough- for the DB's inherent capabilities to shine.
"That's absurd. First, there will always be DRM-free games. People like me will not buy them. I don't care if I have to wait 5 years before I play a game, selling my soul, privacy, control of my computer, and all the other hassles of DRM is not worth it. Eventually software companies will realize that they're losing out on people like me and our money, and eventually they'll come around."
I don't care specifically about the issue anymore as I haven't pirated a game in well over a decade, but you're absolutely deluded if publishers will ever care about anti-DRM absolutists. If anything, the group has shrunk proportionately with the PC gaming audience as a whole. If anything, the PC world has moved largely to online linked services even more than consoles (possibly to stem cracks). Many developers may want to sell DRM free PC games, but instead sell it to consoles where the cracks are far less likely and revenues far higher. There are certainly many DRM-free dev's out there, but they generally aren't respected or honoured for their choices. I will give a nod to http://rimworldgame.com/ as its a pretty fun builder game. If you're looking for something DRM free, you may want to consider it.
Then you got hosed. I paid like $500 each for 2 27" pro series Dells a few years ago. They're amazingly clear for all of my uses (and I'm pretty picky about visuals). I don't know what speciality niche industry you could possibly need such an expensive monitor for, but I'm guessing that instead you paid 'that' company a lot of tax for the privilege of having a grey monitor with a fruit on it.
I started at a new company which included a stock Ubuntu (I came from Fedora previously). I hate their stock UI so I switched to Xubuntu.
1. Lots of configuration necessary since -my- XFCE looks more akin to Gnome 2 (My axe to grind but I'd love to have XFCE pre-canned layouts with the ability to save customized layouts afterwards through a GUI)
2. The graphical package manager worked maybe 60% of the time, so I immediately abandoned it and went to apt-get
3. I regularly get 'this and that' crashed errors even though nothing seems broken.. very strange. My ps list has a million copies of "indicator-bluetooth-service", "indicator-sound-service" so I'm assuming indicators has issues (see below)
4. There's no elegant way of telling the desktop to inherit screen orientation changes to the login screen. You can copy a cfg file over, but that's garbage. Include a prompt or have some sort of backend sudo for 'blessed' users
5. NV Graphics / Audio / All hardware worked out of the box and great! 0 complaints.
6. The whole 'indicators' thing between Ubuntu's skin and XFCE is functional, but a little ham fisted. I guess I should be happy that there's a widget for them at all but I'd wish someone put some more love into it.
All in all, things are certainly moving in the right direction, and a big thanks to everyone who contributes regularly in making my workhorse better and better!
Windows 'OS' has had little new to give enterprises for a long time (For at least a decade). Why do you see basically all new enterprise offerings going multi-platform and open web / XML standards? The only enterprise areas Microsoft is dominating are Office / Exchange / SharePoint / SqlServer (though largely used by other MS products) / AD (though this seems more a dodo waiting for obsolescence).
Outsourcing can and does produce as good if not better software. The problem is that unless you're very familiar with said outsourcing organization, you're essentially rolling the dice between horrible results and amazing results per dollar spent. If this sounds exactly like hiring an any regular employee, then you're exactly right. All HR related work needs to be adjudicated properly or you're risking your business viability. Given that giant American mega-corps haven't fallen into ruin, it seems like they're doing an ok job ramping up outsourcing work without significantly damaging their profitability -yet-.
1. Most developers work at companies that don't give a fuck about computers, developers, releases, etc.. They just want to make money, and IT is a cost. .. Software from what I've seen has mostly weathered the storm, but it certainly isn't immune to becoming *shock* commoditized like so many industries before it. That doesn't see the end of the industry, but certainly an adjustment.
2. A large number of developers feel that their work is important and that they're unique butterflies (and when you leave your company everything's just going to fall off the wheels and go to hell). Most of them are wrong.
3. We've had a great run for the last several decades, but we aren't guaranteed to be high-tier job prospects forever. I'd be miserable being a hardware engineer these days, since so much of it has been fleeing to China for the last 10 years or so (at least the low ended work)
Its true that Oracle should certainly notify about bad / old versions of Java, but sadly there are cases like:
1. Third party tools bundle Java in their own installations (Should Oracle notify / ignore / etc?)
2. Old versions may be necessary for some legacy coding requirements (We're currently stuck with 1.6 due to a third party middleware that dropped support for our use case and haven't had enough time to iron out the migration path)
3. Along with #2, some JavaWebStart based apps (if anyone actually uses this anymore) can be specifically flagged for an older generation JVM's. I'm not sure what the best bet is for Oracle in these cases.
I'd say the notification of any outstanding legacy JVM's is the best case and ideally (though much harder) identifying which applications are actually still depending on these legacy versions.
Why all the hostility? They rent at market rates for single family use as is (which is likely unfurnished). Its very possible that they're only legally allowed to rent in that way:
1. Government subsided housing
2. Limited Accessibility (Hosuing Coops)
3. Occupant Security / Strata restrictions (Appartments/Condos)
Ultimately, its a boring old contract law problem, you either have the right to sublet, or you don't. If there are restrictions on sublets, the landlord can evict / negotiate whatever share they see fit (say 100%). If (and in all likelihood you don't) have rights to sublet without impunity, the landlord can't and shouldn't have the right to 'double dip' as you perceive it.
This will clearly help the world redistribute wealth into everyone's pockets...
And before you jump down the throat of option 2 being impossible/impractical, ask yourself how Airports/Airplanes talk to one another... and then do some research.
Is there proof that large companies are intrinsically less efficient than small nimble companies (when scaled up to large company size)? I -feel- like large ugly mega-corps certainly are wasteful, but ultimately leverage more overall efficiency than N small players. The small player scenario only plays out if they're in direct competition from one another instead. Take two examples:
Telco Megacorp is broken up for some reason (Anti-competitive, etc..).
1. You can break up based on geography which is by far the simplest option.
2. You could break up between retail / infrastructure (possibly a not for profit on the infrastructure side), allowing for any number of retailers to market the same components of the infrastructure build-out. The infrastructure side leases service universally to all qualified retailers and simply worries about maintaining service and expanding coverage.
3. You could also break it up requiring mandatory build-outs for competing lines, but that's so expensive, I couldn't see that ever happening (unless the break-up was due to seriously neglected infrastructure).
With #1, each individual carrier essentially does what momma-corp did. We see this today with the baby bells. Are the babies more functional than their parent was? Probably not. The reason why these guys remain as bad as ever is that they lack any sort of competitive drive to retain good customer relations, etc.. ultimately, quality is poorly linked with customer retention.
#2 is the opposite. With the same sunk costs in infrastructure and basically no friction from changing retailers, the retailers are constantly fighting over customer loyalty / price.
#3 would also be ok but not ideal, since there's still legitimate competition in the marketplace, but it would require a lot of double deployments. Switching between retailers also requires new build-outs.
"I purchased brand new from Amazon and used to have active on a Comcast account in another state" We if it was activated in a prior state, it wasn't brand new, so I'm not sure where you're with in your synopsis.
As the maintainer of a huge ugly telco provisioning system in a past life, this surely is a use case worth of concern. Unless the system was specifically coded into the provisioning system to support device de-authorization, then they would have a problem dealing with your case. My original few cable modems were granted as a rental and were never offered for ownership. One was offered to sell (avoid the rental costs) but never actually belonged to me for 'valid' transfer. I have Cat5 to my appartment these days, so who knows what they do now. The most obvious but retarded problem would come in if they tied the customer's first provisioned device's MAC with the service provided to the customer. In that case, the only way they could de-authorize the device would be by stopping service with the old customer's (upgraded modem) service.
Read the modem terms of use. If you're actually leasing the device, its very possible that they aren't transferable period (we're talking about one's terms of service, not the physical hunk of metal/plastic here) so buyer beware. If the device is transferable, you may still run into issues with the broken provisioning system listed above. In those cases, the telco should've swapped out yours with a valid one if they have any sort of customer service backbone (which is arguable).
The same with cars! Fuck-em. Anyone who cares to drive an illegal car can just fake the legitimacy, so we may as well trash the highway safety commission along with it. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars if you ask me.
Yes, you clearly assume all people who do wrong are criminal masterminds, and not a couple pot smoking burnouts on a journey to enrich their depressing lives by doing stupid things.
Well, I have no axe to grind, but the linked news issue was users downloading untrusted third party software from unbeknownst vendors and expecting what exactly? So yeah, worm, rootkits, etc. Galore. If you leave the rails, there's a lot of great things to be had, and a lot of risks. Doing so should certainly be done by the trained / brave and not by a clueless user wanting to install the newest Angry Birds a few minutes faster than through official channels.
Lets connect the dots. Child is arrested with no legitimate charge. Police release him. If there was a crime to be sued over dad/kid will probably will, and if its frivolous then probably not
I don't see how your subjective hyperbole / speculation will change the facts of the matter. Instead, you'll play up on people's inherent group biases to sow resentment in those 'other people'.