That's weird, your entire analogy seems to be invalidated by your own first point: Yes, in 1925 if archaeologists had found a microchip, they most certainly have thought it was a piece of jewelry or something and put it in a glass case for people to look at, learning nothing. The object is of zero value without the documentation.
Ironically, he's speaking about the most narcissistic generation this planet has ever known, who spends every day self-documenting on social media.
And before telephone calls became widely affordable, people spent their days "self-documenting" in diaries, journals, and letters. Try getting some friends, you might like it.
As long as ASCII is unknown you can read XML for example. Unicode would be somewhat harder to reverse engineer. Working out ASCII would be somewhat like finding a Rosetta Stone was for hieroglyphics.
Especially considering the first 128 characters of Unicode correspond to the same characters in ASCII.
The problem with pencil is that it can be erased (and with enough jostling around over the years, the process of erasure is automatic).
Modern pens that advertise "pigment based inks" are pretty much archival. What that means is that there's an actual pigment, some kind of mineral like carbon or ochre, that gives the ink its color. These tend to be lightfast, as opposed to the dyes used in older inks, and the binders tend to be waterproof when dry.
Likewise, we have the same problems with pencil writing (yes, even on important documents).
Playing Devil's advocate, pencil was probably still the smart move, though, because in those days ink likely wasn't waterproof and might have ended up running and/or staining the other documents.
So we know they weren't good enough for people to copy them into the modern day.
Shakespeare wrote a number of quite mediocre plays, ones that are virtually never performed anymore because nobody likes them. We know this, because they still exist.
The vast majority of things that are worth knowing will always be remembered and preserved. If the few that forgotten become necessary, they will be reinvented.
I'm surprised nobody has raised the specter of copyright in this discussion yet.
In any case, this is a Microsoft-only market, since Amazon or Google can't do this cost-effectively if they have to pay for Windows on all their servers.
This is not a Microsoft-only market. AWS was there first with Amazon Workspaces, and Google will likely announce something soon. VMware has vCloud Air, and IBM Softlayer also runs VMware's stuff in its cloud.
Basically, because of Microsoft's cloud-unfriendly licensing practices, many customers are forced to bring their own, existing Windows licenses to the cloud to run their desktops in the way you describe, so that portion of the playing field is pretty much level.
Trying to translate your AWS applications to what Microsoft has in Azure is hard, as hard as a Windows to Linux transition was 10 years ago.
Maybe if you designed all your applications around AWS PaaS services -- in which case you'd be no better than the Windows developers of yore. But there ARE other ways to do it. You CAN get mobile backend services from other vendors and run them on the cloud of your choice. There are ways to run VMware workloads on the cloud of your choice. There are things you can do with containers. In fact, a lot of customers are suspicious of putting their eggs in one cloud and they have already built out the same thing on somebody else's cloud, if only for DR. If you built your applications in a shortsighted way, then sure, it's the same problem that has always existed. Nobody should be surprised when it's hard to migrate a J2EE application to.Net, either, but it was you who made that bed, not Oracle.
We have this everywhere. My home is protected from police entry, until there's reason to make an exception.
Not quite. The police have the ability to obtain a warrant from a judge to bug my home. But if I happened to tell someone, in my own home, something to the effect of "let's go blow up the bombs next weekend," neither the police nor the courts can force me to admit I ever said that. That speech is protected, forever, via the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. So there's one exception that disproves your rule.
It may come as a surprise, but there are actually honest people out there who want to deliver what they promise. They are actually, believe it or not, the majority of businesspeople out there.
I know some pretty disillusioned contributors to Kickstarter projects that would say otherwise.
Whereas I, who (amusingly enough, perhaps) have been a copy editor, had no trouble at all reading your post. But I also have little trouble reading text in a mirror, or letters that are upside-down. That seems to hint that this may be a cognitive thing, and for some people significant whitespace works and for some people it just doesn't and it won't, and the endless arguing about it might be pointless.
Well, for starters, LinkedIn only leaked data for around 6 million accounts. Yahoo leaked data for half a billion accounts. Also, considering that people use Yahoo for their personal email and to track their finances, the data on Yahoo was potentially much more sensitive than anything on LinkedIn.
Musk himself said he is focused on building the transportation infrastucture, not the colony itself. He is leaving that to others and basically inviting people with resources and ideas to join in.
Ah, I see. So we can think of it as kind of a Hyperloop to Mars.
Meh! Not for me though- I will stay on green-green earth; however, I understand the motivation for those who are more adventurous than you and I. Most people won't want to leave, but plenty will.
Just look at the number of people who are willing to risk their lives to climb Mount Everest. And nobody's planning to live there.
I applaud the effort on Ubuntu Mobile, but I'd put it's chances of succeeding as far less than BlackBerry's or even Firefox OS, which at least had good buzz and shipped devices for a couple of years.
I flashed some Android phones/tablets with early versions of Ubuntu Mobile. Assuming that's still possible, there are more devices available than you think. Sure, flashing isn't for everyone -- but we were always years away from an Ubuntu phone being a mainstream consumer product.
From what I can tell (haven't actually tried it), it looks like it would take months to get a stock SharePoint install hammered into some form that would actually be useful for your organization. Out of the box it's practically useless. You'll be paying those couple of consultants whether you go with Microsoft or not.
Their files were saved to Sharepoint (the default, not their intention) and when they 'attached' the file to an email, Outlook went ahead and sent a link, rather than attaching the file. The link went to our internal Sharepoint, which people on the outside could not access.
The default in Outlook 2016 is to also send links when you attach files that are in your OneDrive folders. That is, to you it seems like you're navigating through the filesystem and attaching a file, but Outlook "helpfully" sees that it's synced to OneDrive and sends a link to the website instead. There's a little box or something you have to check if you want the classic behavior, but you have to set it every time you send an email. I couldn't find any global setting to disable the linking.
One thing you sometimes see in videos is the song will stop and they'll do some kind of "skit," only to have the music start back up after a minute or two. Or they'll just have actors talking briefly in parts. I often wonder whether this is meant to discourage ripping.
Err..there are still plenty of higher end audio shops out there, I've been to them.
I was just in Tokyo last month and there was a little district that seemed to have a dozen such shops, and shops that sold musical instruments were up the street. A lot of the gear appeared to be older/used, but it was high end stuff for sure.
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That's weird, your entire analogy seems to be invalidated by your own first point: Yes, in 1925 if archaeologists had found a microchip, they most certainly have thought it was a piece of jewelry or something and put it in a glass case for people to look at, learning nothing. The object is of zero value without the documentation.
Ironically, he's speaking about the most narcissistic generation this planet has ever known, who spends every day self-documenting on social media.
And before telephone calls became widely affordable, people spent their days "self-documenting" in diaries, journals, and letters. Try getting some friends, you might like it.
As long as ASCII is unknown you can read XML for example. Unicode would be somewhat harder to reverse engineer. Working out ASCII would be somewhat like finding a Rosetta Stone was for hieroglyphics.
Especially considering the first 128 characters of Unicode correspond to the same characters in ASCII.
The problem with pencil is that it can be erased (and with enough jostling around over the years, the process of erasure is automatic).
Modern pens that advertise "pigment based inks" are pretty much archival. What that means is that there's an actual pigment, some kind of mineral like carbon or ochre, that gives the ink its color. These tend to be lightfast, as opposed to the dyes used in older inks, and the binders tend to be waterproof when dry.
Likewise, we have the same problems with pencil writing (yes, even on important documents).
Playing Devil's advocate, pencil was probably still the smart move, though, because in those days ink likely wasn't waterproof and might have ended up running and/or staining the other documents.
So we know they weren't good enough for people to copy them into the modern day.
Shakespeare wrote a number of quite mediocre plays, ones that are virtually never performed anymore because nobody likes them. We know this, because they still exist.
The vast majority of things that are worth knowing will always be remembered and preserved. If the few that forgotten become necessary, they will be reinvented.
I'm surprised nobody has raised the specter of copyright in this discussion yet.
In any case, this is a Microsoft-only market, since Amazon or Google can't do this cost-effectively if they have to pay for Windows on all their servers.
This is not a Microsoft-only market. AWS was there first with Amazon Workspaces, and Google will likely announce something soon. VMware has vCloud Air, and IBM Softlayer also runs VMware's stuff in its cloud.
Basically, because of Microsoft's cloud-unfriendly licensing practices, many customers are forced to bring their own, existing Windows licenses to the cloud to run their desktops in the way you describe, so that portion of the playing field is pretty much level.
Trying to translate your AWS applications to what Microsoft has in Azure is hard, as hard as a Windows to Linux transition was 10 years ago.
Maybe if you designed all your applications around AWS PaaS services -- in which case you'd be no better than the Windows developers of yore. But there ARE other ways to do it. You CAN get mobile backend services from other vendors and run them on the cloud of your choice. There are ways to run VMware workloads on the cloud of your choice. There are things you can do with containers. In fact, a lot of customers are suspicious of putting their eggs in one cloud and they have already built out the same thing on somebody else's cloud, if only for DR. If you built your applications in a shortsighted way, then sure, it's the same problem that has always existed. Nobody should be surprised when it's hard to migrate a J2EE application to .Net, either, but it was you who made that bed, not Oracle.
We have this everywhere. My home is protected from police entry, until there's reason to make an exception.
Not quite. The police have the ability to obtain a warrant from a judge to bug my home. But if I happened to tell someone, in my own home, something to the effect of "let's go blow up the bombs next weekend," neither the police nor the courts can force me to admit I ever said that. That speech is protected, forever, via the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. So there's one exception that disproves your rule.
It may come as a surprise, but there are actually honest people out there who want to deliver what they promise. They are actually, believe it or not, the majority of businesspeople out there.
I know some pretty disillusioned contributors to Kickstarter projects that would say otherwise.
Whereas I, who (amusingly enough, perhaps) have been a copy editor, had no trouble at all reading your post. But I also have little trouble reading text in a mirror, or letters that are upside-down. That seems to hint that this may be a cognitive thing, and for some people significant whitespace works and for some people it just doesn't and it won't, and the endless arguing about it might be pointless.
Perl forever! You can write it, and afterward you won't even be able to edit it.
Well, for starters, LinkedIn only leaked data for around 6 million accounts. Yahoo leaked data for half a billion accounts. Also, considering that people use Yahoo for their personal email and to track their finances, the data on Yahoo was potentially much more sensitive than anything on LinkedIn.
Musk himself said he is focused on building the transportation infrastucture, not the colony itself. He is leaving that to others and basically inviting people with resources and ideas to join in.
Ah, I see. So we can think of it as kind of a Hyperloop to Mars.
And when you read the comments on the first story, the first posts will be about the unthawed brains of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The second story will have 400 comments, but all of them will be shitposting by the GNAA AI.
Meh! Not for me though- I will stay on green-green earth; however, I understand the motivation for those who are more adventurous than you and I. Most people won't want to leave, but plenty will.
Just look at the number of people who are willing to risk their lives to climb Mount Everest. And nobody's planning to live there.
I applaud the effort on Ubuntu Mobile, but I'd put it's chances of succeeding as far less than BlackBerry's or even Firefox OS, which at least had good buzz and shipped devices for a couple of years.
I flashed some Android phones/tablets with early versions of Ubuntu Mobile. Assuming that's still possible, there are more devices available than you think. Sure, flashing isn't for everyone -- but we were always years away from an Ubuntu phone being a mainstream consumer product.
From what I can tell (haven't actually tried it), it looks like it would take months to get a stock SharePoint install hammered into some form that would actually be useful for your organization. Out of the box it's practically useless. You'll be paying those couple of consultants whether you go with Microsoft or not.
Their files were saved to Sharepoint (the default, not their intention) and when they 'attached' the file to an email, Outlook went ahead and sent a link, rather than attaching the file. The link went to our internal Sharepoint, which people on the outside could not access.
The default in Outlook 2016 is to also send links when you attach files that are in your OneDrive folders. That is, to you it seems like you're navigating through the filesystem and attaching a file, but Outlook "helpfully" sees that it's synced to OneDrive and sends a link to the website instead. There's a little box or something you have to check if you want the classic behavior, but you have to set it every time you send an email. I couldn't find any global setting to disable the linking.
One thing you sometimes see in videos is the song will stop and they'll do some kind of "skit," only to have the music start back up after a minute or two. Or they'll just have actors talking briefly in parts. I often wonder whether this is meant to discourage ripping.
Err..there are still plenty of higher end audio shops out there, I've been to them.
I was just in Tokyo last month and there was a little district that seemed to have a dozen such shops, and shops that sold musical instruments were up the street. A lot of the gear appeared to be older/used, but it was high end stuff for sure.
Time to genuinely focus on something new.
OK, let's see ... running my finger down the list, we arrive at ... ah! Here we go. Internet of Things. Sharpen your pencils, everyone!
To many people, the word "pornography" does not carry the positive connotations you seem to think it has.
Sure, except for the cost of building a completely new infrastructure to produce, transport and store hydrogen.
You mean something like a ... railroad? With trains bearing big tanks of hydrogen fuel on the tracks?