Sharing a building with a bunch of law firms, banks and health insurance companies is just what Apple needs to obtain "notion of shared responsibility"!
Turnitin is for college students' papers, not original research. It's a miracle when those papers contain anything not said 65537 times by others already.
There are multiple container-based environments on Linux similar to FreeBSD with jails. Currently popular ones are Linux VServer, OpenVZ and LXC. Each and every of them is inifinitely superior to virtualization as long as you run Linux under it.
Windows users can run just about anything Linux has to offer. Its either been ported to windows natively or will most likely run with cygwin or the like. Certainly anything with any sort of popularity has been ported to Windows.
If you mean that Apple just passes around references and applications never actually touch the data, it would make some kind of sense -- but then it's more likely that they are references to things not managed by Apple in the first place, so they were in a completely unrelated provider's CDN.
What you have described is a system that not only uses two providers but uses each of them for distinct function, each of them critical. So if either has performance problems, the whole system has performance problems, and if either of them fails, the whole system fails.
Apple does a lot of stupid things, but they are not THAT stupid. "Striping" would be a better option than that.
1. This is not what The Register claims. 2. It still makes no sense whatsoever -- when you distribute storage, you move it TOWARD the [supposedly distributed] application, not AWAY from it, to another provider half across the Internet.
I have to point out that the author of the article just earned from me a well-deserved title of dipshit for spewing uninformed crap about C programmers.
Some idiots believe, they can take FPGA and DAC, add a cookie-cutter chunk of VHDL code, connect it somehow to PC, write all UI in Silverlight, and sell it as a new PC-based oscilloscope (taken from a real conversation at Linkedin!)
In reality, software side of embedded systems development is all C all the time.
if you're 45 years of age and still writing C code or Cobol code and making $150,000 a year, the likelihood is that you won't be employed very long,' says Vivek Wadhwa, who currently holds academic positions at several universities, including UC Berkeley, Duke and Harvard.
The fact that this dipshit conflates C and Cobol, pretty much invalidates everything he can say on the subject.
1. Rootkit is not a virus. 2. Just because it's called "Phalanx" it does not mean, it can be detected as such by verifying signatures or other such pseudo-security measures. Antiviruses are trivial to bypass, real security isn't.
No. It is an evolved trait and can be explained through our empathy circle which starts at self and expands to immediate family then extended family / friends then neighbors (or w/e), etc, etc. Being selfish is an advantage in the evolutionary sense. If you're in a famine, you don't give your food to your neighbor - that would mean you die and not pass on your genes. If you stop to help someone being attached by a predator, you would die too, etc. There is a slight difference between selfishness and greed, but you get the picture. Self-preservation is a powerful instinct hard to unlearn and linked to many of the common human failings. And Yes, Altruism is also an evolved trait, but it evolved much later for different reasons.
This is a load of bullshit. Humans evolved from social animals, so evolution favored not individuals but populations most suited to survival in adverse conditions. When most of the herd, or village, is dead, the survivors are not going to produce more offspring than population where survival rates are higher. Furthermore, within every society only a small percentage of individuals can have significant amount of powerlust, and even those would not be greedy, as it happened only much later in human history that the concept of "ownership" appeared, and became associated with power.
Better yet, for most of human history wealth was secondary to political power -- a king is rich because he is the king, not the other way around. Only with Capitalism the relationship between wealth and power was reversed.
Therefore greed is a result of social conditioning. Again, I can present myself as an example -- being raised in society completely devoid of Capitalism (wealth does not raise one's social status, social status may make someone wealthy), I am less greedy than any modern American. Except, possibly, the insane and religious fanatics -- those were unable to receive Capitalist social conditioning while I simply was not exposed to it early enough in my life.
Its obvious..democracy cannot work when the populace is apathetic. Its the old line - "People get the government they deserve".
How can you tell, what does a mind-controlled person (or society made of ones) deserve? Modern propaganda (and its commercial twin, advertisement) is effectively a mind control mechanism at the scale of the society, it defeated democracy, and there is no turning back.
How do you think Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, AMD, etc, etc are going to create products of value without a large workforce that is highly educated in science and technology
By employing tiny educated elite and foreigners such as myself. I have to also point out that original "innovation" is pretty much dead except for two areas -- entertainment (that covers and spreads into communications, journamism, etc.) and military. The rest is at best re-purposing entertainment-based innovation for other needs (ex: CAD reuses video game 3D rendering technology). Of all those companies, Microsoft is known to never innovate at all, it has a huge zoo of scientists (Microsoft Research) that it keeps without any attempt to use results of their work. For all practical purpose Microsoft has internal oversupply of innovation because there is no commercial incentive for it.
Christ.. that was a joke. Relax..
No, this is actually very important. I am not greedy because I was not exposed to Capitalist conditioning, just like I am not superstitious because I was not exposed to religious conditioning. Both are social constructs that have nothing to do with human nature and will eventually disappear, joining such "natural" things like polygamy, slavery, aristocratic titles, theocratic monarchy, continuous state of border war, etc. --- all at some point being universal and accepted as a part of human nature.
I have seen re-introduction of Capitalism in ex-USSR countries -- it taken extremely silly forms, with people believing that it's now their sacred duty to be greedy, and various mentally deficient people rising to power for no other reason as being more compatible with the new state ideology. Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with human nature.
Communism goes against basic human nature - greed.
This is what Capitalist propaganda tells you. Greed is not inherited from animal instincts, therefore it has to be learned.
Democracy & Capitalism while still problematic uses human greed as a way to fuel economic growth.
That ship already had sailed. Modern Capitalism completely defeated the mechanisms that did, or could direct motivation by greed toward anything that benefits the society, and modern propaganda defeated everything that has a chance to threaten election of the incumbent elite's representatives. For all practical purposes we are back to the Middle Ages society -- small aristocracy controls all the resources, and all visible conflicts are merely infighting between the rulers commanding the armies of their vassals and servants. Just with less land and horses and more sophisticated intellectual whoring.
It can't be that everything about any particular system of governance is bad or wrong. Sure public education is a good thing.
It is also incompatible with the direction where Capitalism is going. It is always better for the greedy elite to keep population ignorant and powerless.
Whats funny is most communist or socialist countries have a low percentage of religious people thus rejecting pro-socialist documents like the bible.:P
Bible makes factual claims that are proven to be false, and plenty of claims that while can never be proven, are idiotic and incompatible with anything that involves scientific method. It would be wrong to promote good ideas by spreading lies and nonsense.
This is nothing like "side effects of communism". If anything, I AM a "side effect of Communism" (really Socialism as implemented by Communists). Thanks to them, I have education that is no longer available anywhere in the world, and I got it all for free.
Communists, of all people, actually bothered with supporting education and development of industry just because it's written in their platform.
Solution: keep people in poverty, prevent local economy from developing, pay local elite generously so they will help you to enslave the rest of the population.
Taiwan (and mainland China after them, and Japan before them) developed industry, and infrastructure, and education, and science that come with it. Sure, people wanted money from exporting industrial products, but the real trick was that they have developed things that are usable locally.
India has a huge chunk of its "export" in things that no one really can use locally, but foreigners can pay for -- call center script monkeys that basically shoo customers away without formally denying support, ultra-low-reliability software development, etc. It produces nothing but a stream of people trying to get into countries where those "services" are consumed (and then disappointment at seeing that no one wants to pay for it once they are there).
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Sharing a building with a bunch of law firms, banks and health insurance companies is just what Apple needs to obtain "notion of shared responsibility"!
Maybe they shouldn't, considering what "DMZ" means?
Oh, I forgot, in US "No-fly zone" means "Americans are flying there, and bombing everything they can find".
The real potential for abuse is the same as with online stores -- tweaking prices depending on customer's expected willingness to pay them.
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Turnitin is for college students' papers, not original research. It's a miracle when those papers contain anything not said 65537 times by others already.
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I did not expect to live long enough to see "The Beatles" misspelled.
There are multiple container-based environments on Linux similar to FreeBSD with jails. Currently popular ones are Linux VServer, OpenVZ and LXC. Each and every of them is inifinitely superior to virtualization as long as you run Linux under it.
Yesss!!! As long as they did not smoke pot while scamming businesses, partners, clients, and occasionally consumers and investors, it's all OK!
Groupon is one of the companies that should have their market cap measured in years in prison.
Windows users can run just about anything Linux has to offer. Its either been ported to windows natively or will most likely run with cygwin or the like. Certainly anything with any sort of popularity has been ported to Windows.
And those ports are shitty.
If you mean that Apple just passes around references and applications never actually touch the data, it would make some kind of sense -- but then it's more likely that they are references to things not managed by Apple in the first place, so they were in a completely unrelated provider's CDN.
What you have described is a system that not only uses two providers but uses each of them for distinct function, each of them critical. So if either has performance problems, the whole system has performance problems, and if either of them fails, the whole system fails.
Apple does a lot of stupid things, but they are not THAT stupid. "Striping" would be a better option than that.
1. This is not what The Register claims.
2. It still makes no sense whatsoever -- when you distribute storage, you move it TOWARD the [supposedly distributed] application, not AWAY from it, to another provider half across the Internet.
Microsoft and Amazon platforms are incompatible, so to "stripe" anything between them, everything has to be done twice, for no reason whatsoever.
Someone is spewing bullshit, most likely The Register's "sources".
Never leave giant, un-bridge-able gaps in your knowledge!
I have to point out that the author of the article just earned from me a well-deserved title of dipshit for spewing uninformed crap about C programmers.
Embedded systems actually.
Some idiots believe, they can take FPGA and DAC, add a cookie-cutter chunk of VHDL code, connect it somehow to PC, write all UI in Silverlight, and sell it as a new PC-based oscilloscope (taken from a real conversation at Linkedin!)
In reality, software side of embedded systems development is all C all the time.
if you're 45 years of age and still writing C code or Cobol code and making $150,000 a year, the likelihood is that you won't be employed very long,' says Vivek Wadhwa, who currently holds academic positions at several universities, including UC Berkeley, Duke and Harvard.
The fact that this dipshit conflates C and Cobol, pretty much invalidates everything he can say on the subject.
That's because you are fucking stupid.
1. Rootkit is not a virus.
2. Just because it's called "Phalanx" it does not mean, it can be detected as such by verifying signatures or other such pseudo-security measures. Antiviruses are trivial to bypass, real security isn't.
No. It is an evolved trait and can be explained through our empathy circle which starts at self and expands to immediate family then extended family / friends then neighbors (or w/e), etc, etc. Being selfish is an advantage in the evolutionary sense. If you're in a famine, you don't give your food to your neighbor - that would mean you die and not pass on your genes. If you stop to help someone being attached by a predator, you would die too, etc. There is a slight difference between selfishness and greed, but you get the picture. Self-preservation is a powerful instinct hard to unlearn and linked to many of the common human failings. And Yes, Altruism is also an evolved trait, but it evolved much later for different reasons.
This is a load of bullshit. Humans evolved from social animals, so evolution favored not individuals but populations most suited to survival in adverse conditions. When most of the herd, or village, is dead, the survivors are not going to produce more offspring than population where survival rates are higher. Furthermore, within every society only a small percentage of individuals can have significant amount of powerlust, and even those would not be greedy, as it happened only much later in human history that the concept of "ownership" appeared, and became associated with power.
Better yet, for most of human history wealth was secondary to political power -- a king is rich because he is the king, not the other way around. Only with Capitalism the relationship between wealth and power was reversed.
Therefore greed is a result of social conditioning. Again, I can present myself as an example -- being raised in society completely devoid of Capitalism (wealth does not raise one's social status, social status may make someone wealthy), I am less greedy than any modern American. Except, possibly, the insane and religious fanatics -- those were unable to receive Capitalist social conditioning while I simply was not exposed to it early enough in my life.
Its obvious..democracy cannot work when the populace is apathetic. Its the old line - "People get the government they deserve".
How can you tell, what does a mind-controlled person (or society made of ones) deserve? Modern propaganda (and its commercial twin, advertisement) is effectively a mind control mechanism at the scale of the society, it defeated democracy, and there is no turning back.
How do you think Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, AMD, etc, etc are going to create products of value without a large workforce that is highly educated in science and technology
By employing tiny educated elite and foreigners such as myself. I have to also point out that original "innovation" is pretty much dead except for two areas -- entertainment (that covers and spreads into communications, journamism, etc.) and military. The rest is at best re-purposing entertainment-based innovation for other needs (ex: CAD reuses video game 3D rendering technology). Of all those companies, Microsoft is known to never innovate at all, it has a huge zoo of scientists (Microsoft Research) that it keeps without any attempt to use results of their work. For all practical purpose Microsoft has internal oversupply of innovation because there is no commercial incentive for it.
Christ.. that was a joke. Relax..
No, this is actually very important. I am not greedy because I was not exposed to Capitalist conditioning, just like I am not superstitious because I was not exposed to religious conditioning. Both are social constructs that have nothing to do with human nature and will eventually disappear, joining such "natural" things like polygamy, slavery, aristocratic titles, theocratic monarchy, continuous state of border war, etc. --- all at some point being universal and accepted as a part of human nature.
I have seen re-introduction of Capitalism in ex-USSR countries -- it taken extremely silly forms, with people believing that it's now their sacred duty to be greedy, and various mentally deficient people rising to power for no other reason as being more compatible with the new state ideology. Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with human nature.
Communism goes against basic human nature - greed.
This is what Capitalist propaganda tells you. Greed is not inherited from animal instincts, therefore it has to be learned.
Democracy & Capitalism while still problematic uses human greed as a way to fuel economic growth.
That ship already had sailed. Modern Capitalism completely defeated the mechanisms that did, or could direct motivation by greed toward anything that benefits the society, and modern propaganda defeated everything that has a chance to threaten election of the incumbent elite's representatives. For all practical purposes we are back to the Middle Ages society -- small aristocracy controls all the resources, and all visible conflicts are merely infighting between the rulers commanding the armies of their vassals and servants. Just with less land and horses and more sophisticated intellectual whoring.
It can't be that everything about any particular system of governance is bad or wrong. Sure public education is a good thing.
It is also incompatible with the direction where Capitalism is going. It is always better for the greedy elite to keep population ignorant and powerless.
Whats funny is most communist or socialist countries have a low percentage of religious people thus rejecting pro-socialist documents like the bible. :P
Bible makes factual claims that are proven to be false, and plenty of claims that while can never be proven, are idiotic and incompatible with anything that involves scientific method. It would be wrong to promote good ideas by spreading lies and nonsense.
This is nothing like "side effects of communism". If anything, I AM a "side effect of Communism" (really Socialism as implemented by Communists). Thanks to them, I have education that is no longer available anywhere in the world, and I got it all for free.
Communists, of all people, actually bothered with supporting education and development of industry just because it's written in their platform.
Solution: keep people in poverty, prevent local economy from developing, pay local elite generously so they will help you to enslave the rest of the population.
Taiwan (and mainland China after them, and Japan before them) developed industry, and infrastructure, and education, and science that come with it. Sure, people wanted money from exporting industrial products, but the real trick was that they have developed things that are usable locally.
India has a huge chunk of its "export" in things that no one really can use locally, but foreigners can pay for -- call center script monkeys that basically shoo customers away without formally denying support, ultra-low-reliability software development, etc. It produces nothing but a stream of people trying to get into countries where those "services" are consumed (and then disappointment at seeing that no one wants to pay for it once they are there).
So what DID they do?